285/75R17 Perfect Size on 3rd Gen

I have been debating some bump stop spacers to deal with this while i prepare mentally and financially to trim my wheel wells.

I dont wanna bottom out doing 45mph down a fire road and watch my fender pop off the side of my truck lol

 

Upgrade to some nice wheeler super bumps and add to the cart some spacers for those. I’ve enjoyed how they work to smooth out the harshness of bottoming out. I didn’t hit hard enough that I felt like it was gonna rip the fender liner out. It just rubbed it basically. But at speed who knows.

 

Yeah thats what i was thinking. Already have super bumps and have deff mashed on them before at almost 60mph in the desert. I was shocked i didnt break anything that day.


Anyways, ill probably wind up on some similarly spec'd wheels for clearance reasons. Still need to decide if im going go 34s without regearing... Or just go 33s for a few years (and then probably jump right to 35+)

 

@BroID or anyone

What size bump spacers, 1/4 or 3/8?
Wheelers over Duro?

I'm 6112 6/5 with top plates, pavement only.
285/75/17

 

I’m on wheelers. Both front and rear. I did cut my wheeler rear bump stop stands and welded them back together to get what I needed out of them in the rear. Might not work for everyone because of the bolt through the leaf springs. As far as the front I currently have the wheelers bump stops with no spacers. My rub isn’t significant enough for me to add spacers. I’m on different suspension than you though

 

Tailgate insert? that looks great

 

Same. I get witness marks on top of my fender liners and there's a couple of those pop rivets that catch on top, but it never feels like I' on the edge of ripping the liners out. I'm on the exact same suspension and bumpstop setup as you too.

By the way, how does the 23" HTF feel with the ADS? I lowered mine to try to minimize topping out but it seems about the same. Thinking of raising it back up a little in the front.

 

I sit at about 22 3/4” it feels pretty dang good. Amazingly better then the bilstein 5100 I used to run. Those made me thing my dash was going to break when I topped out. Now it’s just a thunk that isn’t bad. I thought your ADS had the top out spring? I don’t know if mine have them or not. Bought them the same time you bought yours during the group buy when the ADS boss man was in a accident and away from the shop. Maybe I have them and I don’t know it. I’ve got the old style resi horizontal mount and old style tubing so I was thinking mine didn’t have them.

 

Totally agree on the 5100's. I have no idea if mine have a top our spring or not. They have the vertical mount and the 45 degree fitting which were all supposed to indicate top out spring but there's still a pretty good thunk when they top out. Now that everything has settled it's right around 22 1/4" which is fine but I feel like a little more lift would look better.

 

Did any of you guys with Nitto RGs 285/75R17 C load rating weigh your tires before mounting? Nitto's website lists the weight of the C rated tire as 65.08 lbs while it shows the E rated tire at 64.40. That seems kind of odd to me. Any ideas why this would be? For the 285/70R17 it shows C and E the same weight. Seems like an error to me.

 

Agreed that doesn’t seem right. Check out toyo open county at3 C. Per toyo only 59 pounds in the c rated 285/75/17.

 

Cooper XLT 285/75/17 58lbs on my electronic bathroom scale

 

I can find out for you, I have a spare that I haven’t mounted anything yet.

 

Great, thanks! Is that the 285/75r17 C?

 

Yup it is.

 

Love my RG's!

 

Is 285/75 that much difference to 285/70?

Is re-gearing required for either specs?

 

Drives okay to me. I chose the lightest tires I could find. Cooper XLT 58lbs. 285/75/17.

You could also try one of those popular tunes for about $300.

 

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