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Looking for Highway tires for CCLB SRW. Options.

Haven't used that particular model, but I've had very good luck with other cooper tires. had a set of Cooper STT that gave me almost 40,000 miles.
 
Cooper is a good tire. I have at3 on a couple trucks.

IMO if you find cheaper that might not be a good thing. I typically pay bout 200/tire give or take 20 (mount, balance, rebates).
 
Cooper is a good Tire. Had the LTZ's on the Duramax and loved em, very quiet too.

Have the AT3's on the CRD and they are awesome as well.
 
Pretty sure I'll go with the Cooper. Ive had good luck with them also.
I like the idea of 235/85/16 Tanner.
 
OK one more option I want to look into is the 19.5" wheels and tires.

Im looking for a set of the wheels that were on Chevy railroad trucks. Anyone have a set to sell or know of a set somewhere?

I like the idea of a commercial tire and higher weight ratings. The tread life should be very long like 100k or so on a pick up. The tire may dry rot before I could wear them out.
 
I'd look into custom singles if you tried 19.5's.

Remember, you will be top heavy and a narrow track width isn't good for stability
 
If I had to buy some expensive rims I'll just stick with the HT3's on my stock wheels.
 
You couldn't pay me to deal with those friggen 19.5's. They are pretty common on motorhomes, and almost always bounce, shake, and just ride HORRIBLE. Not to mention most shops won't even try to balance them because they are such a nightmare to balance. Many end up putting balance beads in them to try and get them to ride decent. As to 16's, they can more than handle any amount of weight you can put into a GMT-400 so long as you get a load range E tire.
 
The only place to deal with 19.5 tires is a truck shop. As in Peterbilt, Kenworth, etc. as they are used to balancing them. The cheaper tire machines would show it as balanced because they can't run them up to high enough rpm. The truck rated machines have larger capacity motors and hit higher rpm to give a true balance at hiway speeds.

I will agree with Ferm on not running them on a dd pickup. My Hummer tires are 150 lbs and suck to deal with sometimes. Reminds me of doing super singles on the tankers.
 
Alot will just depend on how much PITA it is to get the rims which looks like a big PITA at this point.
I've read different theories on 16" vs 19.5 ride quality. One thing was that a 16" E rated tire aired up to max psi for load will ride harsh compaired to a 19.5 aired much lower but still handeling the load.

I wanted to explore the 19.5, but just the fact that wheels are so expensive or hard to find the smart thing would be to throw the HT3's on and be done.

Thanks for your opinions.
 
That's the whole combo, ever weigh what's on your truck? Looks like most good quality all season highway tires are about 45#, I bet pyo's weigh at least another 30-40, steelies 50-60. You will be near oem weight I think plus and extra 4 plies, heavier rubber, and 3.5 more inches of wheel.

Iirc 19.5 tires are also closer to 33"
 
As for effects of heavy tire wheel combo- I experimented with the hummer. Using the same tire I went from aluminum wheel and no run flat to steel 2 piece wheel with 2 different types of runflats. A 40 lbs and a 44 lbs difference. There was no notable difference between the different runflats.

Heavier- slowed the 0-60 time (really 0-20) by almost 1/4 of a second.

Heavier-Braking at 65 mph added about 1-2 feet of distance. This was very hard to test without abs. VERY SUBJECTIVE.

Heavier-Mpg had around 1/10 loss. I expected more, but maybe it's in my gearing. I added 1500 lbs to the truck and had no increase in fuel consumption. It shouldn't be that way but is. My driving was 50/50 hiway/ city. I tend to think the city driving ate more fuel and the weight in motion didn't hurt once up to speed.

I later compared different tires w/ same weight and very different tread pattern. Huge difference in mpg-2.1 and worse handling and breaking. The tread pattern has far more to do with effects on the truck than the weight.

Hope this helps.
 
My $0.02 is that 19.5's dont belong on SRW trucks, just from a style point of view. PYO's weigh closer to 20lbs, they are very light. 235/85, 245/75, 265/75... any of them will look and perform well.
 
Good info I think.

I've read the info on that wheel again (now that I've had a couple cups of coffee) and it says the wheels are for trailers. Would there be potential for lower quality construction based on trailer wheels typically not being concerned w/ balance?

Another pro for the 19.5's would be longer life cutting tire expense and next time you won't be out the cost of wheels.
 
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