Ricksons on a D250...

[pepecat]

A Fellow TDR Member sold me these. They're great! With just a couple mods I Was off and running... These things are huge...

Rickson Forged Aluminum Wheels on a 1989 D250 with Michelin XZT 245/70R19. 5 tires...

4500LB Weight rating wheels
stock backspacing
Load range "G" 110 PSI 4800 LB Weight rating tires 33. 6" tall.
Daystar Coil Spring Spacers
1992 D250 Upper and lower Control Arms (courtesy of Locomotive1)

Photos need to be resized and will be pending, so to see the pics just go to my Picasa album Picasa Web Albums - Nicholas - Ricksons

 

[PToombs]

They look cool! Now you need to get some centers on them.

 

[pepecat]

Yeah I planned to have my 2nd gen centers mounted on them but for some reason they didn't clear, even with my special shouldered lug nuts, just like on my ford alcoas. Anyway the plan now is just to upgrade all the studs to 9/16" and get factory 2nd gen lugnuts to make the caps work.

 

[Pleines]

Pics? Please?

 

[boatpuller]

Pics? Please?

From Post #1

Picasa Web Albums - Nicholas - Ricksons

 

[Pleines]

Ohh, that looks really nice!

 

[pepecat]

Here are the new pics with hubcaps.

Also a huge thx goes out to Dan and all at RICKSON for helping me locate/source wheel hardware for these!!!

Picasa Web Albums - Nicholas - Ricksons

 

[PToombs]

Dude! Awesome! It's looks totally different. Much better.

 

[dpuckett]

How thick were your coil spacers? Are the new control arms stock sized, or something else? IF I keep my D350, which is looking more and more likely, I'd like to get some tires that will last more than 30-40K empty miles. But, the 19. 5s are too big for the 1stGen wheel wells if you like to turn corners.



Daniel

 

[cArNiVaLwOrKeR]

Those are bad A s s...

Beautiful...



Wish I could get a deal on those...



JoeLee

 

[Pleines]

Can you still turn your wheels all the way to make sharp turns?

 

[pepecat]

The Coil Spring Spacers are about 1. 5-2" thick I didn't really measure them. But since the springs are inboard of the ball joints and not right above them, the leverage is the cause for the overall lift. They weren't terribly huge, but they cost about 150 bucks from Summit, and installed easily - they were a perfect fit for our application...



I can turn lock to lock without any rubbing.



The control arms are stock out of a '92.



the '89 control arms are weaker! I broke an upper arm on my '89!. The '92 upper arms have a doubler/reinforcement plate in the spot exactly where my '89 arm broke... Mysteryman can confirm this as he was the one who redesigned them... many times!

 

[Pleines]

19. 5 x 7. 5 or 6. 5?

 

[pepecat]

19. 5" X 6. 75" wide