On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 18:14 -0500, Dave Mcneely wrote: > ---- David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote: > > At 06:00 PM 7/5/2011, Dave Mcneely wrote: > > >Jack, when I bought my van, with stock 14" wheels, it had two > > >27x8.50R14 LT tires on the rear. > > > > If you've got the alloy wheels that's ok; but it's not good for the > > steel ones. > > I do have steel wheels, but I no longer have the tires. The van needed > new tires on the front, and I did not like the tires on the rear, > which were Cooper IIRC. I wanted to have five tires alike, and all > fitting the original specs, and I got Kuhmo tires. Discount Tire gave > me a good trade in on the two Cooper tires. Other places just said > that they didn't take trade ins. But the tires were on there. I > guess I was risking a tire popping the bead or something, but I did > not drive it very long with them. mcneely

So it appears that running those 27x8.50R14 LT tires on the stock steel 14'' wheels is dodgy? Scott seems to feel differently about that.

-- RJS