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Ok, update to the mighty tire change.
After much research, and lots of spare time, I mounted a 395 on a m35a3 wheel. With stock m35a3 beadlock. It fits just fine. Make no mistake, it's NOT an easy thing to get going, you should have a impact wrench capable of 425 ft pounds of torque to put on the rim nuts, probably more like 800 ft lbs, but 425 should work.
Play by play.
1. get your tires loaded up with your beadlockers. You're going to have to figure out what way works best for you. I watched a miiitary tire expert do it with a boot stomp and a tire iron in 15 seconds. I took 10 minutes. and two tire bars, the kind you buy at a truck stop that are 4 feet long.
2. Put the back of your wheel in the tire. Best way was to put the valve stem end in the center of the tire, then stomp the rest of the rim in. LOTS of tire lube, commonly known as duck butter. Works amazingly better than soapy water.
3. Put your rim and tire assy on a smaller rim or a home depot bucket, lugs facing up.
4. With all your parts already cleaned, and your oring checked on the wheel rim, put the top of the wheel on the rim studs and start bolting them down. At about 1" to go, you are going to hit your beadlock, and it's going to take a while to torque them down. I went about 1/4 inch at a time, in a triangle pattern with a IR 500 lb impact wrench. Keep going. When you are pretty tired of torqueing them down, keep going. About the time you hate your tire, you're almost done. You will need a TRUE 425 lbs of torque to seat your ORING!!!!. 125 aint' going to cut it. 250 aint going to either. 350 did for most of my rims, but 425 did the trick. If your oring doesn't seat, you're going to find out when you put it on the truck. For instance, all 6 of my tires at 150 lbs of torque on the rim nuts seemed sealed up. Dunked in water, checked with soapy water and all. Once on the truck and tightened up 3 of six leaked from the oring. once torqued to 350 ft lbs, they all were happy campers.
4. Your orings are probably reusable if they have no tears in them, and are cleaned of rust and contaminants. There were three distinct orings on my 6 tire. Two round that were pretty round when removed. two pushed into a triangle shape that went back to mostly round, and two that were elongated triangular shaped and thicker than the other two. I loved those last two, they sealed best of all. The moral of the story is to have extra orings just in case.
5. The 395s look AWESOME on the truck. Photos tomorrow when it is light out. The beadlockers are never ever ever ever going to let that tire release.
Tidbits to add. I went to s and s tire store to get the 395's mounted on the stock m35a2 rims. Their tire machine was broken. I went to Les Schwab. They said they would give it a try, but what if they had rims that fit my truck? I laughed, and said not likely. They walked me back into the store room and there were 4 shiny new m35a3 rims and beadlockers. I said I heard my 395's would fit it, did they want to give it a try. They said yes. an hour later with a 1 inch chicago pneumatics impact hammer, they fit. 4 hours later, after helping take off and put on new tires on my new $125 rims, I drove away thrilled. Did I mentioned they stayed at work till 8pm which is two hours past closing to help me? Did I mention they charged me $100 to change all six tires since I bought rims from them? Did I mention they wrenched on my truck till it was right?
I have a new Tire store. They are the best shop I have every worked with. They sent me home at 8pm without a bill, or a penny of my money with nothing more than a handshake and a thank you. They didn't even have my last name. They treated me like an old friend, and they just made me one. I promised to recommend them to the military crowd here in Washington. They are on pacific highway at 176th east in Spanaway. Tom runs the store, and was there wrenching with me till the sweet end. I'm taking them donuts in the morning, come on over. There will be lots of them.
shoot any questions you have to me. The end story? my m35a3 has 395's on it and runs smooth and steady at much lower rpm. My bobbed m35a2 has 14.5x20's on it with a3 rims, and it looks awesome. and I'm grinning like a kid at christmas.
After much research, and lots of spare time, I mounted a 395 on a m35a3 wheel. With stock m35a3 beadlock. It fits just fine. Make no mistake, it's NOT an easy thing to get going, you should have a impact wrench capable of 425 ft pounds of torque to put on the rim nuts, probably more like 800 ft lbs, but 425 should work.
Play by play.
1. get your tires loaded up with your beadlockers. You're going to have to figure out what way works best for you. I watched a miiitary tire expert do it with a boot stomp and a tire iron in 15 seconds. I took 10 minutes. and two tire bars, the kind you buy at a truck stop that are 4 feet long.
2. Put the back of your wheel in the tire. Best way was to put the valve stem end in the center of the tire, then stomp the rest of the rim in. LOTS of tire lube, commonly known as duck butter. Works amazingly better than soapy water.
3. Put your rim and tire assy on a smaller rim or a home depot bucket, lugs facing up.
4. With all your parts already cleaned, and your oring checked on the wheel rim, put the top of the wheel on the rim studs and start bolting them down. At about 1" to go, you are going to hit your beadlock, and it's going to take a while to torque them down. I went about 1/4 inch at a time, in a triangle pattern with a IR 500 lb impact wrench. Keep going. When you are pretty tired of torqueing them down, keep going. About the time you hate your tire, you're almost done. You will need a TRUE 425 lbs of torque to seat your ORING!!!!. 125 aint' going to cut it. 250 aint going to either. 350 did for most of my rims, but 425 did the trick. If your oring doesn't seat, you're going to find out when you put it on the truck. For instance, all 6 of my tires at 150 lbs of torque on the rim nuts seemed sealed up. Dunked in water, checked with soapy water and all. Once on the truck and tightened up 3 of six leaked from the oring. once torqued to 350 ft lbs, they all were happy campers.
4. Your orings are probably reusable if they have no tears in them, and are cleaned of rust and contaminants. There were three distinct orings on my 6 tire. Two round that were pretty round when removed. two pushed into a triangle shape that went back to mostly round, and two that were elongated triangular shaped and thicker than the other two. I loved those last two, they sealed best of all. The moral of the story is to have extra orings just in case.
5. The 395s look AWESOME on the truck. Photos tomorrow when it is light out. The beadlockers are never ever ever ever going to let that tire release.
Tidbits to add. I went to s and s tire store to get the 395's mounted on the stock m35a2 rims. Their tire machine was broken. I went to Les Schwab. They said they would give it a try, but what if they had rims that fit my truck? I laughed, and said not likely. They walked me back into the store room and there were 4 shiny new m35a3 rims and beadlockers. I said I heard my 395's would fit it, did they want to give it a try. They said yes. an hour later with a 1 inch chicago pneumatics impact hammer, they fit. 4 hours later, after helping take off and put on new tires on my new $125 rims, I drove away thrilled. Did I mentioned they stayed at work till 8pm which is two hours past closing to help me? Did I mention they charged me $100 to change all six tires since I bought rims from them? Did I mention they wrenched on my truck till it was right?
I have a new Tire store. They are the best shop I have every worked with. They sent me home at 8pm without a bill, or a penny of my money with nothing more than a handshake and a thank you. They didn't even have my last name. They treated me like an old friend, and they just made me one. I promised to recommend them to the military crowd here in Washington. They are on pacific highway at 176th east in Spanaway. Tom runs the store, and was there wrenching with me till the sweet end. I'm taking them donuts in the morning, come on over. There will be lots of them.
shoot any questions you have to me. The end story? my m35a3 has 395's on it and runs smooth and steady at much lower rpm. My bobbed m35a2 has 14.5x20's on it with a3 rims, and it looks awesome. and I'm grinning like a kid at christmas.
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