these are the tires i have on my truck are these 2 big or are they ok and wanting to know your personal opinion on tires for my truck 3.55 gears 4.5 inch lift 4x4

 

285s are perfect on rams and you wont realy notice a difference power wise. If you got a 4.5 inch lift 33s will fill it in even better and like my truck i still dont feal a power loss. But 4 10 gears and lift with bigger tires is the way to go.

 

285s are atad too big for those gears, for those gears 265s should really be the max, if you have the 3.73 gears then its not bad, your gonna have some power loss down low off the line(or stop light whatever)

 

My dad had a 2001 dodge ram 4x4 put 285s on it with 355 gears and absolutly no power loss anywear!

 

With that lift I wouldnt go any smaller, yes you will feel some loss in lowend with those tires but most people dont notice it or care, I would not go bigger than that size unless you get 305/70/16's

 

thanks for your help is there another name for 31 or 33 inch tires or will it say just that on the tire

 

305 75 r16s are 33s and i think actualy 265s are 31s

 

Pretty much standard sizing is out of date, only tires in a 15" rim are still posted with standard sizes meaning 31x10.5x15 or 33x12.5x15 except for some select tires.

265/75/16 is comparable to a 31
285/75/16 is comparable to a 33
305/70/16 is comparable to a 33
305/75/16 is comparable to a 34

 

try this out, should answer any size questions you'll have

http://www.1010tires.com/TireSizeCal...?action=submit

I have 285's on mine, had 245s when I got it. I don't notice much difference, other than the tire shake I get at around 100 kmh because they were used and we couldn't get em balanced good...

 

Nason when you gonna make the drive down here and gimme some body parts.