Lav rims mounted on stock axles!

[bacardi]

the machinist finally finished my adapters!

[saxon]

Those look great!

[ChalkOutline]

Looks good. What did it run you?

[bacardi]

$650

edit: thats not including parts i had to buy for the machinist which where the lug nuts and wheel studs. My total was around $800 or so at the end.

[glenn]

Are those the 20 inch rims?

[militarytrux]

How is your road speed now with the new shoes?

[TheDude]

Oh man that looks awesome.

RM

[Barrman]

Most of us with Michelin XL or XZL tires got them directly or indirectly from the government GL site. The USMC has a vehicle called a LAV. The LAV ran 11.00-16 tires on it. The rims were 2 piece tubeless rims. The LAV now has different rims, so when they sold the 11.00-16 tires, the rims went with them.

I have broken down 14 of the LAV rims now. I hope I never see another. While the idea of a tubless rim is neat, nobody outside of a USMC base is going to even have a clue, much less the equipment needed to fix a flat either.

The above was for those asking questions about the rims and tires. Bacardi, neat use of what you have to make something work. If you have a 5th tire, move the under bed round cross member forward as far as it will go and you can hang your spare under the bed.

[bacardi]

How is your road speed now with the new shoes?

lol well actually it could go up 75mph with the old tires but it was scary and with the new shoes its actually a lot smoother now... i still wont take it to 75mph though.

i have 4.88 in the diffs with a chevy 350/th400 combo.

[Barrman]

10-12% increase in road speed if those are 11.00-16 tires compared to 9.00-16 stock tires.