My boom truck had been setting on some pretty bad rear tires since I got it. I was holding off on swapping them out till I found the tires I wanted. Friday out at the Wichita swap I got a smokin' deal on some 9X20 Military tires. These things are about 40 inches tall and beefy. Not what you'd normally run on an AD truck but they are just perfect for what my purposes will be.
The guys up at the tire shop had some fun getting them
mounted. The old timers did the bulk of the work with the
young pups standing back scratching their heads. "What are you gonna run this on again?" Getting the 9X20's on the old truck 8.25 10 bolt truck wheels required two of the tire shop guys and Rick standing on the tire while the ring went in. But I didn't get a picture of that. Back at the lot
Rick and I got the old tires that had gone flat off and the
new one's on. Here's a shot from the
rear.Eventually the trucks gonna get these same tires on the front. The plan is to build custom wheels using the 10 bolt centers out of some old 2 piece wheels and the rings from the military wheels so we can set the offset the way we want on the front. At some point the rears will get reworked also to tuck them in and center them on the hub. I don't plan on running duals on the truck ever.
I stole this idea from my buddy big Tony (ttodd here on the bolt) He's run these tire on his
doodlebug boom truck and a boomer he calls
BoxHead that he built for another guy.
I'm pretty excited about this project, you know your all ate up with the old trucks when you buy tires and that night dream about putting them on.
Mongo
