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Proper backspacing needed, for ordering wider rims for 4" Bushwhackers

  
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Proper backspacing needed, for ordering wider rims for 4" Bushwhackers

 
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New User | Posts: 2 | Joined: 05/09
Posted: 05/30/09
06:07 AM

Hello, I just bought a 98 Ram 1500 4x4, with stock wheels (16x7) and I need help selecting the correct wheel size and backspacing, to better help match up to the 4" Bushwhacker Pocket Style fender flair's I received this week.

In other words, I need to determine the proper offset/backspace for the wheels I need to get ordered ASAP, to help get them out there even with the new fender flaring!! Because, I'm sure the truck would look, really ridiculous, if I were to put the fender flairs on, with what the stock wheel offsets are now..

Oh, and, I just bought (4) new Cooper SST 285/75-16's, and would like to stick with them for now. So, I guess I'm gonna have to go with a 16" rim, preferably 10" wide... Just don't know how to determine the proper backspacing. Yes, I have done some reading about determining backspacing and offsets. But, Math class, really wasn't one of my stronger subject's, in school, 25+ years ago, EITHER!! LOL

Thanks in advance, for any help getting me that look, that I'm looking to achieve...    

 

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