I origionally bought 2 brand new looking courser OTD mud tires for $50 a piece. Once I got them on rims I found out they had been sidewall slashed in a previous life. So $100 bucks gone. Now I've bought 4 used Mud KIng 30" tires, and I've got 3 matching rims and one loner. By the end of tomorrow it should be up on 30's

I bought the 12/1.25 tap for the threads I screwed up this morning. I'll have to take apart most of the front crossmembers to clear the bolt holes so I can tap them. That will suck the big one.

30" by how wide? What rims are you using? I'm unclear what bolt holes you are modifying?

30x9.5 on chevy 6 lugs (8 now) I've got 3 of them mounted and on the car. I used my dad's car and a 2x4 to break the bead on the the one that was on a rim, then used screwdrivers to remove and mount the tires.

The two threaded holes I damaged are where the tri-bolt plate where the radius rod and the tranny crossmember mount. I have to lower the engine/ tranny unit again so I can remove the steering link, which I didn't line up right, and get those tri-bolt plates out of the way so I can tap the holes. One each side.

My response for questions about when it will be rollin? Eventually....

Sounds tricked out; hope to see some pics of it rolling on 30"s.

 

I know what bracket you mean now; those can be a bear to line up right. I almost crossthreaded one. I'm also missing a block on one of the brackets there becuase the unibody is to sevearly damaged to put it in.