Question on tires

turnerTRD

turnerTRD

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I know this has been asked a million times but here we go. I have a 2008 taco dcsb. 3 inch lift. I have 285/70r17 mastercraft mxt, I know when I had them put on I did very minor trimming. Only time it may scrub is when at full lock and I hit something that may put the tire almost in the fender well. My question is I'm going to the nitto ridge grappler (hybrid tire) with it not having the lugs that the mud tires have could I go up to a 295/70r17 with minor scrubbing? Maybe the same scrub as the mxt did? I believe the 295 is only about .5 or .6 of a inch bigger. Need to know soon thanks
 
turnerTRD said:
I know this has been asked a million times but here we go. I have a 2008 taco dcsb. 3 inch lift. I have 285/70r17 mastercraft mxt, I know when I had them put on I did very minor trimming. Only time it may scrub is when at full lock and I hit something that may put the tire almost in the fender well. My question is I'm going to the nitto ridge grappler (hybrid tire) with it not having the lugs that the mud tires have could I go up to a 295/70r17 with minor scrubbing? Maybe the same scrub as the mxt did? I believe the 295 is only about .5 or .6 of a inch bigger. Need to know soon thanks
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What offset are your wheels?
 
You’re going up 0.6” in height your 3” lift would probably cover the 33.4” tire but your issue is going to be that it also increases the width by 0.4” and the 285/70/17 is already rubbing because of the width not so much the height due the the 3” lift you have. You could try it but it will rub significantly more and you’re probably going to have to cut the mounts and do some other molding and trimming to make them work. Let us know what you do and how it works out. I’m interested.
 
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OR17TRD said:
You’re going up 0.6” in height your 3” lift would probably cover the 33.4” tire but your issue is going to be that it also increases the width by 0.4” and the 285/70/17 is already rubbing because of the width not so much the height due the the 3” lift you have. You could try it but it will rub significantly more and you’re probably going to have to cut the mounts and do some other molding and trimming to make them work. Let us know what you do and how it works out. I’m interested.
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Did find one more thing, the specs on my mxt are. 32.91/11.5 the specs on the nitto ar 33.3/11.77
 
turnerTRD said:
Did find one more thing, the specs on my mxt are. 32.91/11.5 the specs on the nitto ar 33.3/11.77
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It will be close. You might have to get an alignment after the new tires and if the tech is good he might be able to get the caster right for the tire and limit the rubbing as much as possible before you just start hacking away at the truck. Camber should be 0, Caster 2-3 and Toe 0. Depends on the tire but the closer to this the better. Otherwise you’ll end up with poor wear and other possible drivability issues.
 
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