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Toyo MTs are the best looking and quietest MT tires, imho, and they look awesome on your truck, felix. I had them on my Toyota before, but boy are they heavy! I know when I went from similar sized ATs to MTs, the weight jumped at least 15 lbs per corner. They have every reason to be heavy as they're 10 ply or something like that, though all the trucks I see rolling on them never see anything more than construction site dirt! All good.

Not sure anyone makes a 305 in 18s. Weird size. 285s I think are the max I can go with the proper dimensions on stock wheels.

Decisions, decisions! I'll be hitting up MC motorsports tomorrow to spec out a 1" hub-centric spacer. I'm now leaning towards gloss black stock wheels, spacer, and 285 toyo proxes. making sure to tint the front windows and gloss black the grills with a body color matched bow-tie.

you know, imagine the below with gloss black, black lugs, squarer tires with better tread/sidewall design, pushed out to be flush to fenders

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or just f it all and big boy it out on 24s, that's how all my n****s roll (T.I.)

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nice thread on upsized wheels and impact

http://www.greenhybrid.com/discuss/f69/anyone-have-problems-20-rims-24018/
 
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Thanks man! I've owned many street, AT, and MT tires and the toyo open country MT tire by far is the best one I've ever owned. The tread is super aggressive and isn't as loud as they look.

Although they weigh more then average, my DIC still reads that I get 14.8 in my avalanche. I use to have 305/50/20 terra grapplers with LTZ 20's and it too was 14.8 -- which I find odd. I drive mixed city/highway.
 
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I called MC Motorsports and they can do a 1.25" adapter. Anything narrower I'd have to shave down the stock bolts since they're too long for a 1" adapter which is what I eyeballed it at.

What do you guys think? I think the front with 1.25" will be fairly aggressive where the tire will stick out by a tiny bit. The rears look to be more inset to the rear fenders so I should be fine there.

I just can't stand the RV tucked in look and would rather have it slightly stick out than tuck in if you can visualize what I'm saying. All the Toyota guys have had good luck with the spidertrax spacers and they too run 1.25" as a standard, but IIRC the stock Toyota wheels tend to sit in further than the GM product.
 
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I think you should get the new wider tires before getting spacers I think you'd be surprised and how a wider tire will change the stance.....IMO
 
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It's either the modified stock setup look or this since with the 22s, I don't have to deal with wheel adapters, it'll sit flush, and as opposed to the 24s, I can run the widest rubber possible at stock height. And though I've professed my love for wheels w/ dish, if I'm going 22s, it's going to look undersized a bit compared to flat faced wheels like the slides.

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I'll have an update w/ pics in short order. Thanks, again!
 

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1.25" spacer starts putting too much stress on the hub components imho ... the far better solution to this is getting wheels with the right offset to achieve the look you wish to achieve. I believe 18 to 20mm offset will make the wheels flush in the rear. Again, someone else might want to confirm this, but that's the offset I had on my 24s and I think that's the offset of 22" tbss rims which look to sit flush.

Btw, I dunno what kind of spacer they're talking about ... I had a simple set of 5/8" spacers and they just slid into the bolts, wheels slid over the spacers, lug nuts over the whole thing, and done.

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For your reference, here's how a 305 tire on 30mm offsets sits like:

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It's almost flush.
 
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Using "spacers" to push the wheels out has the same effect as having higher offset wheels that do the same.

And these are really wheel adapters as they mate to the hub so reliability and run out is just as good as not having one. I'd rather avoid one since it adds another layer of complexity, but I ran one without an issue for many miles. You just got to make sure they're made by a quality vendor. Aluminum. Get some loctite on there.

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Personally I would never run something like those adaptors in the pic. Many people have ran them with 'no issues' until they had an issue. We're talking about a very heavy vehicle that puts a lot of stress on hub components. I'd never trust my truck and my safety on adaptors ... but that might just be me. And it isn't the same as having a wheel with the proper offset when you're adding such a component tween the rim and the hub. A slide in spacer is a different thing. But, as you wish. :)
 
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Personally I would never run something like those adaptors in the pic. Many people have ran them with 'no issues' until they had an issue. We're talking about a very heavy vehicle that puts a lot of stress on hub components. I'd never trust my truck and my safety on adaptors ... but that might just be me. And it isn't the same as having a wheel with the proper offset when you're adding such a component tween the rim and the hub. A slide in spacer is a different thing. But, as you wish. :)

You're putting added stress on the components period by going with bigger wheels/tires. If the aftermarket wheels are set further out from the hub, it has the same exact effect as doing that via adapter with more conservative stock wheels.

And none of us have the time, expense, nor commitment to really figure out long-term how these modifications impact stock components designed to work with other OEM spec parts. Why? Cuz we have too much money so we trade cars in well under 100K to get a newer one.

But I'm with you guys. Friends don't let friends roll stock. :mexsmoke:
 

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Yes you are adding more stress with heavier/different offset rims, but the stress is borne by the wheel and the hub, not on a $100 aftermarket part on the most crucial part of the vehicle where sprung and unsprung weight meet.. Again, I know that a lot of folks run them, I just won't. That's why I used the slide in spacers (with great reluctance), because although they add stress to the hub (same as an offset wheel), they themselves bear no stress because the wheel itself isn't attached to them.
 

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