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How large of tires will fit
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if 395's are abit smaller than 14:00's and 14:00's are 48 inch. then 46" tires should fit??? right?Recovry4x4 said:
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The rear axles are 48" on center as long as you don't take the truck off a flat road you would be fine not shure about some hard off road stuff when the axles start moveing around a lot. or high speed when the tires start to expaned do to centrifical force not shure how much they will if any??
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They will fit. The M36 truck runs offroad at over 30,000# GVW when full. We did notch the bed to allow movement of the axles, just in case. With a normal payload, you should be fine.
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Here is the M35 with 46" Michelin XML 395/85R20 tires. Previous pic of M36 was 46" Michelin XL Pilote 15.5R20 tires.
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Ray - Like those tires! What rims are you using?
IMHO, the Deuce brakes, while perhaps marginal and requiring high pedal effort, exceed the tractive capability of 9:00-20 NDTs. I have no problem locking my wheels on paved or gravel roads, dry or wet. I attribute this to the harder rubber, solid center rib and limited traction lugs inherent to the NDT design. I would expect that nearly any non NDT, traction lug style replacement tire would give better braking effect than the stock NDTs.
IMHO, the Deuce brakes, while perhaps marginal and requiring high pedal effort, exceed the tractive capability of 9:00-20 NDTs. I have no problem locking my wheels on paved or gravel roads, dry or wet. I attribute this to the harder rubber, solid center rib and limited traction lugs inherent to the NDT design. I would expect that nearly any non NDT, traction lug style replacement tire would give better braking effect than the stock NDTs.
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I just bought some 46 inch Mich for my deuce. the guy I bought them from said they all came off deuces. some of them had flat spots on them from skidding. If that is the case I would think that the deuce breaks can handle the 46's fine.
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They run the 46s on the FMTV (2.5ton and the 5 ton.)rizzo said:
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mich XL's 15.5/80 R20