If you go with skinny tires make sure to get as many jerry cans and lights as you can fit as well as limb risers

 

Wide tires are for flotation. There's only two surfaces that benefit from flotation. One is snow deeper than can be driven through. This is why arctic trucks have huge tires, but you'll have a hard time fitting tires big enough to make a disco float on snow. Instead you'll end up in the middle, not good at anything. Sand is another surface where flotation is helpful to some degree.

For shallow snow and most other surfaces, skinny will produce higher psi and cut through soft layers to hard layers below where the traction really is.

 

That's why the minimum tire you see is 12.50 for an aggressive purpose built truck. Aired down to single digit air pressure for the largest contact patch possible. Guess we've had it all wrong.

 

Well that was a good argument on both sides. It depends on what you want to build for a purpose. I use my truck for DD and I live on the coast. The worst problem we have is soft sand. So sounds like I need the widest, best tire that will fit with spacers and lift that will not kill my axles, diff, etc. That being said sounds like 2857516 on a stock wheel is the ticket.

If there is potential for a wider tire than that, that accomidates the above Im listening to you vets. And thanks in advance for all the info. Now where do I find spacers that freakin big? Just left the parts store, the biggest they had were only 1/2" thick.

 

Where can I find that spacer?

 

These are what I run.
eBay: http://pages.ebay.com/motors/link/?n...d=390784308322
No problem with them not being hubcentric.

 

265/75/R16 and 255/70/R16 are good options

 

Awesome thanks just ordered them

 

2002 Disco II- 4” old man emu suspension lift w/ 35” tires on stock 15” rims