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Old 06-10-2005, 05:54 AM
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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?
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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.
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What is the width of your 19.5 tires?
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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uhhh... 19.5's are small????? 24.5's and 22.5's on a light truck are overkill, no pun intended.

Looks good to me.

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never seen that part of glendale NJ
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haha it could exist... in flagstaff maybe.
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