BarnyardEngineering
Well-known Member
- Location
- Rochester, NY
Pickup truck tires used to be great, but there hasn't been a pickup truck with 15" E-rated tires produced since the 1980's. There aren't too many options for LT duty 15" tires these days new, and they're impossible to find used. We've had to use old car tires for the last 25 years, and they don't hold up under the weight like LT's. These days even the 15" car tires have dried up. They're so small and thin now...Pickup tires will haul as much as those implement tires that will usually not wear as long as a good used pickup tire will. I put LR E's on or 10 ply tires for wagons if just hay wagons if grain wagons I like my truck frame wagons with truck tires and wheels. Never had a spindle break or go bad in 50 years. Tires will last well too. I have one wagon that is on 20's with the old tire that were on it when I put it together (steering linkage) and is still on it some 40 years later and says Rayon on the sidewall so now you know how old that tire is. Still carries the load with the same thing on the inside with a big chunck of tread missing and both hold air. Wagon holds about 400 Bu. I have had the tread peel off the front tires from to much weight and can't seem to find heavier tires for it .Don't look much either. Put about 3 tires on in the 40 years we have used it.
Even if you're lucky enough to have 16" rims, good ones of those are getting harder to find too. All the pickup trucks now are using 17", 18" and 20" tires.