Khaotic
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So i know a good deal of you guys are ******** into 4x4 and flexing to the max and driving your Jeeps over 13 foot boulders at a 45 degree angle and all...
But my intentions are much simpler.... Currently I've got some craptastic near treadless 215/70/16 tires on my stock KJ steelies. I've been reading endless posts about wheel/tire sizes and what will and won't rub under full flex and yadda yadda. But being that I don't have a front diff or axles to worry about load amount on, and generally this beast is driven on the highway with 0% flex, and on the occassions it goes offroading, its mostly dirt trails and such with a minimal amount of big ass rocks, I need some input here... I plan on getting some 15x8 steel wheels. Its a toss-up atm between black D window style, black soft 8, or white cragar nomad 1. Leaning towards the nomads because I've never seen anyone with them, and the whole white jeep white wheels thing looks pretty cool (at least on the big o tires visualizer thing i found elsewhere on the forum) But I digress....
I plan on lifting. Most likely a Rusty's spacer lift and the front clevis lift to start (because it's cheap) and eventually OME springs all around w/ new struts, but that will have to wait (probably for quite a while). I don't mind pounding the pinch, or doing a bit of inner fender-well trimming... but unless someone has a bad ass new front bumper for really cheap for me, I don't particularly want to go hacking big chunks out of the stock front bumper.
So to end a long rant with the question at hand.... Will some 31x10.5x15's work for me without rubbing? And if the answer is no, then with the help of some spider trax 1.25 wheel spacers, would they? Or should i focus more on the backspace/offset of the wheels themselves? (I'm new to truck wheels... I've had honda civics and such most of my life...)
Thanks in advance...
But my intentions are much simpler.... Currently I've got some craptastic near treadless 215/70/16 tires on my stock KJ steelies. I've been reading endless posts about wheel/tire sizes and what will and won't rub under full flex and yadda yadda. But being that I don't have a front diff or axles to worry about load amount on, and generally this beast is driven on the highway with 0% flex, and on the occassions it goes offroading, its mostly dirt trails and such with a minimal amount of big ass rocks, I need some input here... I plan on getting some 15x8 steel wheels. Its a toss-up atm between black D window style, black soft 8, or white cragar nomad 1. Leaning towards the nomads because I've never seen anyone with them, and the whole white jeep white wheels thing looks pretty cool (at least on the big o tires visualizer thing i found elsewhere on the forum) But I digress....
I plan on lifting. Most likely a Rusty's spacer lift and the front clevis lift to start (because it's cheap) and eventually OME springs all around w/ new struts, but that will have to wait (probably for quite a while). I don't mind pounding the pinch, or doing a bit of inner fender-well trimming... but unless someone has a bad ass new front bumper for really cheap for me, I don't particularly want to go hacking big chunks out of the stock front bumper.
So to end a long rant with the question at hand.... Will some 31x10.5x15's work for me without rubbing? And if the answer is no, then with the help of some spider trax 1.25 wheel spacers, would they? Or should i focus more on the backspace/offset of the wheels themselves? (I'm new to truck wheels... I've had honda civics and such most of my life...)
Thanks in advance...
Thanks for your input bro. It is appreciated. And as a side note, I've totally decided on the nomad 1's. Totally badass. Does 15x7 w/ 3.75bs sound about right? 
