Fitting big tires on skinny rims...who does this?

WTF!

My quote came up with DrJ's name?

 

What he said.....I had the same thing done to my tires...."STAND BACK!!!!!"

Scared the living **** out of me when they fired that thing off.

 

Bias plys and radials are a lot different...it would be no problem at all to mount them, and I don't think you'd really have any problem at all but it may look a little funny...that is a pretty skinny rim. 7.50's on 4" rims are really common, and I've never had any problem. I'd guess the original rims used for those tires couldn't have been more than 4.5 - 5" wide.

 

Nimrod, that works, but it's not ideal. When you stick a 7.5 inch tire on a 4 or 4.5 inch rim you end up with a funny contact patch as the shoulders of the tire bend over to mate to the rim. The middle of the tire gets worn out prematurely.

It works, it just doesn't work right. Doesn't mean that you can't do it. You'll just have to put up with the downsides.

How has your tire wear been on the roadster with the 460?

 

True, but the tread width on the 7.50-17 Goodrich is only 5.5", same for the 7.50-16 Goodrich, the 7.50-16 Firestone is even narower at 4.88" acording to the Coker catalog. I like to try and match tread width to rim width, it looks best, with the rim any wider than the tread it ends up looking a little less traditional to me. I don't think there was anything wider than about 5" to hot rodders before the later '50's.

Tire wear on the roadster is terrible! I go through a set a year...but they do wear pretty even. And I mount all my own tires anymore, I've had too many pinched tubes when I've taken bias plys to shops to have mounted. I use one of those cheap Harbor Freight tire mounters...its one of my most used tools.

 

So-Verdict is. 750 - 16's on a 16" x 4" wheel - it will work but not ideally. I think as long as it has been done and it has not failed - I would do it.

 

Like a dumb-*** I tried to wedge a set of too wide radials onto a set of '35 wires. After spending the better part of a weekend on them I finally gave up a put the right size tire on them. Now I have a set of tires that are brand new but have been pushed, shoved, wedged and stretched to the point that they are probably unusable for anything! Thank God the rims were still ok, that little experienced cost me $400......chalk it up to "educational expense".

 

Hi guys....

I would not suggest using much narrower than a 5 inch bead seat on a 750 cross section tire. Using a rim that is too narrow will not only look pretty funny but you will not get good service on the tire because the contact patch will be the very center of the tire only. Pretty much right on is the recommendation that the tread width is a pretty good rule of thumb for the rim width.

Drive em boys! Wear them tires out!

Best to you all,

Corky Coker

BTW...we will have the recommended widths on our website update soon too.

 

that was already done last halloween.

 

happy days is where jump the shark term started when the fonz jumped the shark tank with his bike...............the rest is yea i know bla bla bla back to tires

 

The answer to your question... Who does this? Is only a person who dosn't care for your saftey. Match tread width to wheel width.

 

Why not get your wheels widened to exactly the size that your tires require. You will feel better knowing that they are perfect and I think they look cool too.

The ones on the left have a 3" band added to run late model 16" wide tires resembling the stagger block dirt track tires. You could get them widened to exactly what you want.

 

my buddy is running 750's on 16s it looks great