Thread: '37 Oze build

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Originally Posted by jerry clayton

Ahhhhhh, farm tractors are sooooooooooo nice when it comes to tire changing----if you have rubber tires instead of them steelie spikes------

Uhhhh.......not so much! During the summers of my highschool & college years I ran the mobile tractor tire repair truck at the local farmer's coop in my little Oklahoma hometown.......there was nothing nice about changing a rear tractor tire that had run over a stump out in the middle of a field, spewing sodium-chloride & water all over the place. Created a "nice" big mud hole of nastiness that you could sink a jack in......

Yes R2.. the good ol' days! rofl... and that Ca Cl is some nasty stuff! I know it loves to eat the metal rims. And how about those wheel weights?!?! Gotta love another 100 or 200 pound chunk of cast iron! HAH!

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Some fool needs to look up the definition of of a log.

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Perhaps you should investigate ways to raise/jack up the car during a tire change event.....something that allows the suspension to droop more.......and the oze guys have their $$, they dont really mind if it is a problem...

Originally Posted by daveS53

While I did say that I have "plenty" of clearance on the frame side of the tire, it's not that generous. If the back spacing was increased by 1/2 inch, it would be getting tight real tight.

When I mounted the wheels, I had the brake rotors in place, but not the calipers. Getting the wheel past the calipers might be even more difficult.

After wrestling with those tires for several hours, I see only two solutions - a wheel opening as large as the tire or fenders that are a couple of inches wider. The fenders are already wider than normal, since the car uses a standard 56" wide rear end, but has enough fender width for the 295 tires.

A tubbed wheel well with a narrowed frame and narrower rear end would also do the trick, but it would look weird if there was 2" of clearance between the tire and the outside of the fender.

The guys at the OZE Rod Shop thought nothing of the issue - they install that tire width on their cars all the time.

Hmmmm.....sounds to me like your problem is more with the tire height than the width. You said you have a 29" wheel opening and a tire that is 30.5" tall.......perhaps if you had the 295/40/20 which is still 11.61" wide but is 29.3" tall, it might be a little easier to squeeze into the hole.......btw, these figures came from this tire size calculator Tire Size Calculator

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I don't own a trailer or a vehicle that can pull one. No trailer queen for me. I told the OZE guys that when I ordered the car - it was to be a driver, not a show car.

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Originally Posted by daveS53

That 29" wheel well opening was just a height off the ground. The diameter is a lot smaller than that - more like 26". My tiny little 245/45/17 front tires front tire are 25.7 inches in diameter. They would squeeze through that opening.

I might make it work with about .25 inch more setback and only an 8" rim and a narrower tire.

Dave, I have a steel '37 and the horizontal measurement on my rear wheel openings is 28.25". Currently have 255/50/17s on a 17x8 wheel on there but the tire is only 27" tall. It looks too small but I wouldn't have any problem changing a flat tire on the road! I'm sure I'll end up with 28 or 29" tires on either 17x8 or 18x8 wheels when it's all said & done. I could probably go with a 9" wheel if the offset is right.

The cars on the Oze website appear to be much lower than yours. Do you intend to drop yours more?

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