Okay, I'm back from the motorsickle foolishness. Shaken, stirred a little, and thoroughly chilled.
Tires: Yours look good in the pics, so maybe you won't be doing anything with them for a while. Mine were rotten, so I set about looking for replacements for the original 7.50 - 17". I wanted radials, but what I found was mostly nothing. The only choices were bias ply, at vastly inflated prices. I considered them, but soon enough came to the conclusion that since my truck was to be road iron instead of an occasionally-driven museum piece, I had to go with my instinct as a trucker and upgrade all the way around. What was readily available and not overpriced was 235/80R16 tubeless. Superior in every respect except for originality. I had to change the rims as well, and found used aluminum rims which pleased me for the same reasons. Painted 'em black for effect
[IMG]http://thumb11.webshots.net/t/52/452/5/7/74/2835507740096215731EDCLJS_th.jpg[/IMG] and added a bit of chrome to set it all off. What I had then was a smoother, quieter truck which would pack more load with fewer tire failures than I could expect from OE.
Those are some gnarly looking skins you have on your drive axle, Grendel. They look tactical. Are they?
