OME and 275's. Pics please

[Cruiserhead05]

I've almost got all my parts together to do my OME Heavy lift, i may be running my stock 275 michelins for a few weeks until i can afford some 285's. Just wanted to know what you guys thought and if you had some pics so i could see how weird/bad it may look with only 275's.
Thanks, Brandon

 

[NorCalDoug]

if it's only a few weeks, don't sweat it.
it might look odd to you, but it's no big deal - most others won't notice anything odd...
I had no digi-cam when I did mine, so no pics for ya...

 

[fzj80kidpen]

Your only talking about 1 inch diff between 275 and 285's
1/2 all around.
I have 285's with squashed oem springs so I can't help but I would not worry about it.
I would rather have the springs on 275. Clearance with better mpg

 

[elmariachi]

it might look odd to you, but it's no big deal - most others won't notice anything odd...

Doug, I respectfully disagree. What's going to happen is he is going to pull up to a gas pump and some beautiful babe who would otherwise have approached him, inquired of his manly-man truck with 285s, whom he would have fallen madly in love with and eventually married and had 12 kids, will instead stay parked in her Vette at the other pump and say to herself, "What a wimp...if he had only had 285's".

Jim

 

[e9999]

Who cares how it looks?
You better not let on that you need to overcompensate with tires, dude!
sheesh, pretty soon you'll have two sets, now that shows a serious problem...

 

[woody]

do yours and take pics....odds are mine will look just as stupid....er, different...er....anyways, take pics....

 

[NorCalDoug]

Doug, I respectfully disagree. What's going to happen is he is going to pull up to a gas pump and some beautiful babe who would otherwise have approached him, inquired of his manly-man truck with 285s, whom he would have fallen madly in love with and eventually married and had 12 kids, will instead stay parked in her Vette at the other pump and say to herself, "What a wimp...if he had only had 285's".

Jim

Jim,
Point well made.
However, I recall that he states that he occasionally has chicks scribbling love messages on his rig (post #4).

If anything, looking slighly dorkish, might slow his game down a bit to a more managable level...afterall...he's only, what? 18? No need to burn him out quite yet

As for myself, a few weeks of dorkishness would mean a few weeks of celibacy

 

[elmariachi]

Jim,
Point well made.
However, I recall that he states that he occasionally has chicks scribbling love messages on his rig (post #4).

That has only happened to me once, and it was at this year's Roundup. My fiancee had to write our hotel room number on my 80 window because Greg and Butch and unnamed others got me too drunk to fish (or walk or stand up).

Back on the thread, I have a new OME setup laying in my garage that ain't going on until I can get the BFG's installed. Don't want to take any chances of looking dorky. Beware Cruiserhead05 if you aren't changing the caster bushings yet, those 275s might in fact be a bit squirrelier than the beefier 285s.

Jim

 

[cc93cruiser]

It is definitly not the greatest sight, but it could be worse. This was about 1 year ago, before my 33" Bfg m/t's and the removal of grandma running boards :

sorry, about the Defender

 

[Bongani]

OME 50-110kg in the front
OME 400kg in the back

275x70R16 Dunlop Grantrek (cr@p) Hoping to fit BFG's soon.

 

[stuck in GA]

Im not sorry about the defender. That thing is sweet!

 

[cc93cruiser]

I thought I would be flammed for the Defender, That thing was sick, well for a disco.

 

[stuck in GA]

You mean for a Land Rover.

 

[Rookie2]

if it's only a few weeks, don't sweat it.

Wow... I'd have to think twice about that after seeing Bongani's pic.

 

[Darwood]

OME 50-110kg in the front
OME 400kg in the back

275x70R16 Dunlop Grantrek (cr@p) Hoping to fit BFG's soon.

Mmmmm 105... but how come the pic is hosted at a Nissan site? Mmmmm Patrol...

 

[NorCalDoug]

Wow... I'd have to think twice about that after seeing Bongani's pic.

You could always get tires first
It's tough to kill those Michelins through...darned long-living tires

 

[Darwood]

You could always get tires first
It's tough to kill those Michelins through...darned long-living tires

You're telling me. When I bought my truck with 95k miles it had the original set of Michelins with a build date of 96', and they still had some tread. They did scare the hell out of me being so old and all.

 

[cc93cruiser]

You mean for a Land Rover.

my bad

 

[Bongani]

Mmmmm 105... but how come the pic is hosted at a Nissan site? Mmmmm Patrol...

Hey, thats a ZA spec TLC, the 105 is very similar to the USA spec 80 series. Been friends with a Nissan site owner allows for plenty of free web space.

 

[dclee]

You mean for a Land Rover.

Discovery is a Land Rover. Range Rover is a Land Rover. Freelander is a Land Rover. LR3 is a Land Rover. Land Cruiser is a Toyota. See the analogy? ;p

That yellow truck is a Defender 90, also a Land Rover. SWB of 90" vs. the Defender 110 (very sweet) which is a 110" wheelbase (imagine that) wagon, and competes with our Cruiser wagons.