17.5 / 19.5

[bluehiway]

Hi All, Has anyone tried /or is contemplating installing either 17.5 or 19.5 commercial truck rims and 12 ply tires on their class C rigs? I have! Let me hear your experiences if you have. Rich in TN.

[GStream40]

Welcome to the Gulf Stream Owners RV Forum! :)

Look for ward to reading more of your posts here on the forum and the responses.

I have a brother that lives in Gallatin, TN and I was born in Fountainhead. It is between Gallatin and Portland on Rt 109. I have loans of family in Tennessee, aunts, uncles and cousins. :D

Ron

[earljan34]

Rich welcome to GS owners forum. :D I think you will find a very limited choice of tires in the 17.5 size I had them on a 1978 Winnebago and they were hard to get in 1989 only one or two company's made them I don't now about now? Maybe they are coming back.

Earl

[bluehiway]

Hi Earl, Ron, The 17.5s are coming back. Not a big choice yet, but good. That's why I went with 19.5. What a nice difference in road feel and sense of stability. Doesn't "waddle" around either. Close fit under the wheel wells of the E-350 chassis, especially the fronts. I also added Bilstein shocks. Rich