Dodge dually tires?

Jacksonwolf39 · Jun 2, 2016

My dad just bought a 2015 cummins crew cab 4x4 with a flat bed on it. He's wanting to level it and gonna keep the stock wheels. So wondering what set up some have you guys went with on tire sizes? Can it fit 35s without rubbing? And curious to see what leveling kits you guys would recommend also! Thanks in advanced

J/Cope79 · Jun 3, 2016

In my experience with leveling pucks on my dodge (05 reg cab 4x4) it was a tire eatin sob. That was After it had been aligned. I had 255/80/17 KM2's at that time too. I have heard about better results with leveling coils. Anyhow Im sure there will be plenty of opinions and suggestions on here .

Jacksonwolf39 · Jun 3, 2016

I've seen good and bad with the leveling pucks. I've been trying to find a all coil leveling kit. But can't seem to find anyone that makes them

gottagofast · Jun 3, 2016

I have 255/85r16 km2's (same size as cope's tires just 16 rim) on my ford dually.... I wouldn't want anything bigger and occasionally think about going back to 235's.... IMHO 35's on a dually is just silly...
Of course that IS just an opinion.

BIG_Country · Jun 3, 2016

I'd stay away from the wide tires on the dually. Had some just wider then stock on a 06 dodge, got a rock stuck between the tires and blow out a side wall in one and cut a big gash in the other. ended up having to trash both of them. Since then I stick with stock size on duallys

smbroady82 · Jun 3, 2016

There's a nice set of 40s on here for sale ;D

Jacksonwolf39 · Jun 3, 2016

Think he's going with a 285. Preciate the info fellas! And broady, those might fit with the help of a grinder and BFH. Haha

MoparMan · Jun 4, 2016

J/Cope79 said:
In my experience with leveling pucks on my dodge (05 reg cab 4x4) it was a tire eatin sob. That was After it had been aligned. I had 255/80/17 KM2's at that time too. I have heard about better results with leveling coils. Anyhow Im sure there will be plenty of opinions and suggestions on here .

X2, the 255/80/17 measures 33". To me it's the best size to run....no need for a spacer in the rear and you can run them with or without a leveling kit. I'm on my second set of 255/80/17 Coopers

rpf500 · Jun 4, 2016

MoparMan said:
X2, the 255/80/17 measures 33". To me it's the best size to run....no need for a spacer in the rear and you can run them with or without a leveling kit. I'm on my second set of 255/80/17 Coopers

What style Cooper? I have some 285/75 ST maxx on my GMC dually, 90%.tread, and want new ones already. I can't get them to wear right. And yes, I've done EVERYTHING possible, replaced every component in the steering, had 3 shops align and balance and I've concluded it's the coopers. Curious what ones you have that are working well.

MoparMan · Jun 4, 2016

rpf500 said:
What style Cooper? I have some 285/75 ST maxx on my GMC dually, 90%.tread, and want new ones already. I can't get them to wear right. And yes, I've done EVERYTHING possible, replaced every component in the steering, had 3 shops align and balance and I've concluded it's the coopers. Curious what ones you have that are working well.

Yep, that's what I've got...the ST Maxx. The first set I got around 45k miles out of them...The rears wore very evenly, the fronts wore the outside edges more than the middle but that was because the truck had 200k miles with all original parts. I've got a set on my 2010 now and they are wearing really good.

rpf500 · Jun 4, 2016

MoparMan said:
Yep, that's what I've got...the ST Maxx. The first set I got around 45k miles out of them...The rears wore very evenly, the fronts wore the outside edges more than the middle but that was because the truck had 200k miles with all original parts. I've got a set on my 2010 now and they are wearing really good.

Good to know. What PSI front and rear?
Mine are wearing well in the rear, like you though, the front is cupping. Ive rotated though so 4 of the 6 have signs of cupping. So maybe the taller, narrower tire is the difference then. I thought 285/75 would be fine since I had them on pretty much all my.trucks and tire shop agreed. Now, 8 months later they said dually rims are .5" narrower than srw trucks. I guess that .5 makes a difference if you are having luck with the same tire. Guess I'll start saving another $1500 for new tires. LOL

Partial derail over. Good luck to OP on his tires.

gottagofast · Jun 4, 2016

My 255 bfg mt's are wearing great... I tow at 30,000 plus too

MoparMan · Jun 4, 2016

rpf500 said:
Good to know. What PSI front and rear?
Mine are wearing well in the rear, like you though, the front is cupping. Ive rotated though so 4 of the 6 have signs of cupping. So maybe the taller, narrower tire is the difference then. I thought 285/75 would be fine since I had them on pretty much all my.trucks and tire shop agreed. Now, 8 months later they said dually rims are .5" narrower than srw trucks. I guess that .5 makes a difference if you are having luck with the same tire. Guess I'll start saving another $1500 for new tires. LOL

Partial derail over. Good luck to OP on his tires.

I run 70 psi front and 80psi rear. Mine aren't really cupping, just wearing more on the edges. I'm gonna get my front end lined up to see if it might help.

grcthird · Jun 6, 2016

rpf500 said:
What style Cooper? I have some 285/75 ST maxx on my GMC dually, 90%.tread, and want new ones already. I can't get them to wear right. And yes, I've done EVERYTHING possible, replaced every component in the steering, had 3 shops align and balance and I've concluded it's the coopers. Curious what ones you have that are working well.

Find somebody that can do a road force balance on them. My buddy just had to take a cooper off his f250 at 75% tread left because it was so out of round and vibrated like crazy.

Pineygroveoffroad · Jun 6, 2016

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What style Cooper? I have some 285/75 ST maxx on my GMC dually, 90%.tread, and want new ones already. I can't get them to wear right. And yes, I've done EVERYTHING possible, replaced every component in the steering, had 3 shops align and balance and I've concluded it's the coopers. Curious what ones you have that are working well.
[/quote] what spacers are you running?

rpf500 · Jun 7, 2016

Pineygroveoffroad said:
what spacers are you running?

2" from Wheel adapter.com

BigCountry · Jun 7, 2016

I had a 07.5 dodge dually. Leveled 2 inches, it ate tires like a SOB :****:...Pony up and buy the 19.5's and a commercial tire, you'll be money ahead in the long run.

rpf500 · Jun 7, 2016

Since Pineygrove told me to get the **** out I guess he didn't believe me. So thought I would post a picture. It was hard to get a good angle so I marked in red where to look. Look closely and you can see how if you run your hand on the lugs, it "catches" each lug. It's inside and outside lugs and it's worse than the picture shows.

MoparMan · Jun 7, 2016

Here are a couple of the pics of my rear tires like we talked about Ryan....I'm gonna post some more pics of the ones that I've worn out. As far as the ones on the front not wearing right...I've been putting about 20-25k miles on them and then putting them on the back to wear on out and put 2 new ones on the front. I've been buying them for $200 shipped off of Amazon.

Pineygroveoffroad · Jun 7, 2016

rpf500 said:
Since Pineygrove told me to get the **** out I guess he didn't believe me. So thought I would post a picture. It was hard to get a good angle so I marked in red where to look. Look closely and you can see how if you run your hand on the lugs, it "catches" each lug. It's inside and outside lugs and it's worse than the picture shows.

I just now seen the gtfo musta hit it on accident my bad man. Are you happy with running the spacers? Thanks for the info! I bought a leveling kit for my 12 Dodge dually but after seen all this I might just leave it alone. Again sorry about that!