Thread: another rims question

I have the hurricanes on my 81 classic with 33x10.5 muds.....love the look. I prefer the 15 over 16 for off road as you can get a much better long footprint when deflated that makes a huge difference off road. Price wise, 15's are heaps cheaper if you look on tyre rack etc from the USA and there is a great variety of off road patterns available.

Opinions on 15or 16in wheels are like noses, everyone has one.
But what you need to know is the offset. You could have a sunny with a 0 or negative 15 or even 25mm offset(which makes the tyre stick out more away from the car so you may need flares) but if the hurricane is a greater +ve(standard boost alloys are around the +33 mark) it will move the tyre closer to the car which may cause rubbing issues.
In saying that Ive seen a neat defender ute with those wheels who had no issues and they are nice looking

Hurricanes are +3.5mm offset. (203 wide-105 backspace)

Not sure bout the sunnies there muddy and wet and im to much of a sissy to take them off the car to measure them....

Hi, What year Rangie do you have? I have early Rangie hubs on our camper trailer & the later alloys do not fit, had to skim axle caps with grinder to fit Disco steel rims to fit. messure diameter of hole & compare with axle. Regards Shane.

yeah will do.

its an 83 model. I'll suss that out.

Hi Brendon,

I had 15 X 7" sunnies on my 74 and got a hold of 5 15 X 8" hurricanes like yours.

Be aware that there were a lot of different manufacturers of these rims and offsets differ.

My POS did not turn in as well with the old tyres (31 X 10.5 X 15) on the new rims on bitumen. It was noticeable at the time, but I got used to it.

15" tyres are generally a lot cheaper than same brand / type larger inside dia tyres, even though the rolling circumference and width might be the same.

Agree with the comments about footprint.

cheers, DL

Tooks the sunnies off last night and test fitted the hurricanes

neither rim is hubcentric. is this normal for RR's?

Offset on the sunnies is +25mm offset. (203 wide-127 backspace)

so it seems the hurricanes will be a better fit with 31x10.5R15 or a close metric equivalant to 32x10.5R15, due to the more appropriate offset.got flares/2" lift already and will hack if required...

just unsure about both wheels being not hubcentric seems concerning...

Hi Brendon,

By hubcentric I assume you mean the rim centre being in contact with the hub protrusion.

Mine aren't, can't recall if the sunnies did. Can't see any issue........ the studs are massive compared with Toy, etc. Hope you are using the correct nuts with washers with the hurricanes.

On 'later' models the studs (and hubs supposedly) were modified to suit stock alloy rims.

Studs to suit alloys are marked with a slot or triangle on the nut end. I'll bet they all were when alloys were introduced. Hubs I'm using (82) have the triangle on the studs. Actual hubs look the same as 74 used previously.

Make sure you don't lose any of the washers from the hurricane wheel nuts. I was missing a couple and found that they're made from unobtainium.

Got a whole set cut from a length of steampipe.

cheers, DL