Landcruiser rims on, painted

[MillerPKA]

Got myself a set of Landcruiser rims in Atlanta this weekend and had a little urban chaos in Blake's truck en route to installing them, but all in all everything worked out okay. I could only hold off 48 hours before the paint job, ended up going with Duplicolor's wheel paint in graphite. I spent the majority of my time in prep work and man was it worth it. I learned from my mistakes on the first wheel so next week I'll probably rectify that. Happy to join the 16x8 club again its been a while.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v396/wtfniga/PICT0793.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v396/wtfniga/PICT0787.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v396/wtfniga/PICT0794.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v396/wtfniga/PICT0798.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v396/wtfniga/PICT0799.jpg




final product

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v396/wtfniga/PICT0800.jpg

[corax]

:thumbup: looks good, they match your lower rocker panels fairly well. Is that primered in the 2nd pic?

Only thing I would have done differently is to take off the weights and have them rebalanced with sticky weights . . . . I can hear the arguments against sticky weights already, but I've never had problems with them coming off (the rim NEEDS to be cleaned where the weight sticks on, when the weights come off, it's usually becasue the rim wasn't cleaned well enough)

[Scuba]

Holy Baller, They look good on that thing...



:bling:

[MillerPKA]

Thanks, and trust me you're not the first to point out the weights. The next time I'll deal with those coming off I'll be getting new tires, at that point I'll be sandblasting the rims and having them powdercoated, so it's good for me right now. Plus the sticky weights just don't provide as accurate balance as the outer mounts when it comes to bigger, more aggressive tires and balance is my #1 concern right now

[Cebby]

Sorry for the OT - you've had those tires for some time now - how have they been so far. Are they noisy?

[MillerPKA]

They have actually been great on the road. Its funny you ask that now because I have the steering wheel shakes, but that's only because of changing rims I'm changing the tire's curvature of wear that was a result of being on the 7". After a few more hundred miles they'll be smooth again.

As for off the road, they've been spectacular, put them over rocks hill climbs lake crossings and deep south gumbo and they've done they're job. I'd give them a B- in the snow i wasn't too impressed, though I'd like another run with the 8" and see if I'm gaining any more traction

[CJM]

Sticky weights arent that great.

When I swapped to some revos and some mickey thompsons on my T100 I added 2 ounces or better to each tire. They balanced but man thats alot of weight, no problems with it tho. None came off b/c I brake cleaned and such the area that they were going on.

[xcmountain80]

Looks almost as good as mine....
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e31/xcmountain/4Runner/Tires%20and%20Wheels/P2220642-1.jpg

Aaron

[MillerPKA]

Touche, but for a total of $170 and 10 hours of my time I couldn't go wrong....oh, and my 5 spokes sold for 225 3 days after they were up, where are you on that one? :tongueout:

Nice addition though for real, I wish I could have scored the lx rims, did get the Lexus center caps though haha

[xcmountain80]

Well you got me beat on the 5 spokes as I'm still stuck with 9 and the wife is looking at me like uh huh. I got the 4 lx450 wheels with centers for $150 painted for ....about $30 and a free lc rim as a spare. While I wish my 5 spokes would move... both sets I might have to drop the price.

Aaron