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Monte tire help

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Post by KC77Monte Tue Jul 12, 2016 10:03 pm

Starting to gather my parts for my suspension rebuild this fall along with new wheels/tires for the monte and kind of stuck on rear tire size. The car has 225/70/15 on it now, so I want to go wider in the rear but not really sure what will fit back there. Monte guys, let's see what your running on your rides.
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Post by ant7377 Thu Jul 14, 2016 10:45 pm

275 60 on the rear 255 60 on the front 8 inch wheels
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Post by 77cruiser Fri Jul 15, 2016 10:36 pm

ant7377 wrote:275 60 on the rear 255 60 on the front 8 inch wheels

Copy cat. Laughing

Used to have 275/60 F & R
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Post by KC77Monte Fri Jul 15, 2016 11:42 pm

Awesome guys thanks
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Post by KC77Monte Sat Aug 06, 2016 2:13 pm

So I bought my front set of wheels and thought I would try them on before ordering tires. Does this look like enough clearance for the front end parts, mainly the upper A-arm and tie rod? Its a 15 x 8 with 4 1/2 bs.

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Post by Dinomyte Sat Aug 06, 2016 3:50 pm

It looks good, and the numbers are right (backspacing) I'd suggest bolt the wheel on turn the steering wheel all the way left and spin the wheel to see if it has touched anything, then all the way to the right and repeat. Don't forget to post a picture of the wheels you picked...
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Post by KC77Monte Sat Aug 06, 2016 5:48 pm

After thinking about I looked at the side with the stock wheel on and it looks the same. The wheels are just Cragar S/S. My wife works for the company that owns cragar so we get a discount.
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Post by 1973montec Mon Aug 08, 2016 10:24 pm

I had 275-60-15s on my 15x8 wheels with 4" offset on my 73 monte
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Post by impalamonte Tue Aug 09, 2016 9:28 am

18 x 9.5 rims , 255/50 tires.
5.25 backspacing...all 4 corners
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