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Old 02-08-2018, 07:26 PM
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I almost went with 215/70/15's in front but stuck with the 65's. My headers never scrape and there is no rubbing so I went back with the 65's in the summer. My rears about toast.
One thing that myself and some other guys I run around with are finding out is that the newer BFG letters turn from white to brown very rapidly. My older 255's on the rear stay snow white and my fronts turn brown after 2 trips out in the car. They are very hard to clean. My buddy has some new rear BFG's and they are doing the same thing. Very strange....

I posted a message on here a while back about which Torq Thrust to buy and someone gave me a part number. Will try and dig up my old post and put it on here.

Found it https://www.yenko.net/forum/showthread.php?p=1269975
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Old 02-08-2018, 07:52 PM
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If you find the old post that would be great. I'm still open to options at this point.

My headers have only scraped once with the 215/65's. That's because I misjudged the speed bump, rolled just a bit to fast down the other side and the suspension compressed and bumped the headers.

As long as I'm careful and ease over the speed bumps it's not a problem. But I'd like the added piece of mind with a slightly taller tire. Speed bumps around here are on steroids.
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Old 02-08-2018, 08:21 PM
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Sorry I had to step away.

I know what you mean about the yellowing. I may be lucky I haven't experienced it on our BFG's but I bought them going on 2 years ago now.

I restore a lot of baby birds and have experienced that issue with the white walls. All the complaints came from repo tires from Coker. They would just yellow up and seemed no amount of scrubbing got rid of it. I feel the rubber oils underneath were bleeding through.

Anyway, couple years ago switched to Diamondback repo tires and haven't had the issue since.
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