Towing with 19.5"tires

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Jun 10, 2005 | 05:54 AM

sherman

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Towing with 19.5"tires

When towing using 19.5 tires and a 4.10 rear with the 6sd did your mpg go up or down?

Jun 10, 2005 | 06:06 AM

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I would expect it to go down a little since the wheels weigh a lot. That being said I had an auto with 3.73 and I had steel 19.5's and the heaviest 19.5" tires you could get.

Jun 10, 2005 | 06:59 AM

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What is the width of your 19.5 tires?

Jun 13, 2005 | 06:50 PM

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245's... They weighed 90# each on a bathroom scale. Not fun to change a spare but on another note I barely noticed when I got a flat

Jun 15, 2005 | 06:38 AM

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I would expect you will get many more mi from them compared to the stock tire,does the truck ride much harder with them,I suspect the side walls are much stiffer.

Jun 15, 2005 | 10:06 AM

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I got 75,000 miles of abuse out of mine. I didn't treat them right (wrong pressure) and rarely rotated them.

Jun 18, 2005 | 01:34 PM

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19.5 inch tires are pretty small your truck must look funny, I am useing 34.5 inch tires and they look good, fills up the wheel wells

Towing with 19.5"tires

Towing with 19.5"tires

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