Thread: Old stye Rangie Rims how wide - 7"or 8"?

They're a great rim and I intend keeping them on the 2 door project I'm doing ATM.

Many people put tubeless tyres on the rims which is bloody scary IMO

Trav

I squizzed 265x75x16 on my standard rims they were great
they look good with a bit of meat on them too!

cheers Jeff [yes i know not legal] they worked

Originally Posted by jbell110

I squizzed 265x75x16 on my standard rims they were great
they look good with a bit of meat on them too!

cheers Jeff [yes i know not legal] they worked

I guess you must have had to lift suspension and/or body to get 32" tyres in/on - which is fine

....only REALLY SERIOUS problem is that the standard 6" rim width is way too narrow for the 265's.....in fact it's pretty DANGEROUS!! I'm really surprised any tyre place would be dum enough/slack enough to put them on to those rims!!!

BTW : you know that the rims HAVE to run tubes??.....Coz (a) they're rivetted, so not air tight and (b) they haven't got the right drop centres for tubeless tyres to sit into .....ESPECIALLY not 265 size!!!

Man you're riding around on a BLOWOUT or ACCIDENT just waiting to happen!!!!

BTW : you know that the rims HAVE to run tubes??.....Coz (a) they're rivetted, so not air tight and (b) they haven't got the right drop centres for tubeless tyres to sit into .....ESPECIALLY not 265 size!!!

Man you're riding around on a BLOWOUT or ACCIDENT just waiting to happen!!!!

I remember when Dad had his old 2 door Rangie with rostyle rims fitted they said that they need tubes.

The tyres on the Ranigie were tubless on those rims and we did have a blowout but luckily we were only doing 70 km/h at the time. We pulled over, put the spare on and had all the tyres fitted with tubes as recomended by the tyre place.

Not sure if my 2 door Rangie has tubes fitted, will find out though.

Trav

It is a long while since I had any stock rangie wheels. I will go along with 6" wide as the others have said.

FWIW disco steel wheels are 7" wide.

Definately 6" tube rims.

Martyn

Originally Posted by Bushie

Definately 6" tube rims.

Martyn

Yep, they're the ones!

Seeing them again for first time in ages reminds me of their only real draw back - not a lot of ventilation coming through them was the reason early Rangies could suffer from brake fade and fluid boiling on extended usage e.g. long steep downhills in an automatic Rangie or if towing a heavy load say- near its 4 ton rating!

But they certainly were pretty close to unbreakable......and in keeping with LR ethos or prime design directives, were repairable in the field or bush, on the veldt or in the jungle.......re-rivet or heat to make malleable and re-bend to correct shape.

You can't do that with your modern alloy wheels.......... albeit they ARE immensely strong, I HAVE broken one, absolutely TOTALLY destroyed the rear LHS wheel [on a 97 Disco1 300Tdi auto] by dropping it [at 80 kph] into a 1/2 metre "invisible" pothole on a hard, recently graded dirt road .....it tore out nearly 1/4 of the outside of the wheel rim and centre, up to the studs+nuts.......DEFINETLY NOT repairable!.....you'd have problems balancing it probably.

Originally Posted by rangieman

I have 4 of them that are modified and are now 15x 7" tubeless rims

I have 4 of them that are modified and are now 15x 10" tubeless rims

But they're so freaking ugly, you wanna buy them??