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So I recently decided to brings dad's old 68 F-100 out of hibernation. It's a 4wd with the coil buckets lowered 1" and a 2" body lift for 3" of lift. When he lifted it the truck was running 33s, but was on 32s before it was parked. Some pics of the truck for reference:
Here's the truck shortly before being parked
How it looked when I started working on it about a month ago
Sitting next to dad's F-250 4wd (the truck that replaced it)
So prior to seeing it beside the F-250 I was planning to remove the body lift and stick with 32" tires. Now I'm leaning towards keeping the extra lift, but probably want to go back to 33s if I do. If I go this route I'll eventually be swapping the BL for suspension lift, just don't like BLs and don't want the gap when I go back to stock bumpers.
Wheels are stock steel 15x7 from later F-150 and they will be staying for a bit. On a wider wheel 33x12.5 would be an obvious choice, on these 15x7s I think they might be too wide though. 33x10 would fit the wheels well and I also think the tall narrow tire would look good on this old truck. Biggest problem with the 33x10 is availability.
Thoughts? Suggestions? Stick with 32 and remove the BL? Wide 33s, narrow 33s?
FWIW I'm also thinking about stepping up to 16" or 17" inch wheels down the road. Like the wheel to tire ratio of the old 16.5" wheels, but want to go aluminum and a common wheel size. That's not going to happen until I get a lot of other stuff done on the truck.
Here's the truck shortly before being parked
How it looked when I started working on it about a month ago
Sitting next to dad's F-250 4wd (the truck that replaced it)
So prior to seeing it beside the F-250 I was planning to remove the body lift and stick with 32" tires. Now I'm leaning towards keeping the extra lift, but probably want to go back to 33s if I do. If I go this route I'll eventually be swapping the BL for suspension lift, just don't like BLs and don't want the gap when I go back to stock bumpers.
Wheels are stock steel 15x7 from later F-150 and they will be staying for a bit. On a wider wheel 33x12.5 would be an obvious choice, on these 15x7s I think they might be too wide though. 33x10 would fit the wheels well and I also think the tall narrow tire would look good on this old truck. Biggest problem with the 33x10 is availability.
Thoughts? Suggestions? Stick with 32 and remove the BL? Wide 33s, narrow 33s?
FWIW I'm also thinking about stepping up to 16" or 17" inch wheels down the road. Like the wheel to tire ratio of the old 16.5" wheels, but want to go aluminum and a common wheel size. That's not going to happen until I get a lot of other stuff done on the truck.
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