cj3a tire conversion

No, I don't know... But that is an interesting bit of info to have... please fwd to me if you get a private reply to your question.

Thanks, Brian

Brian's Military Jeeps of WWII

Good luck. The narrowest tall profile 16" tire you will be able to find in a metric size will be an LT215/85R16, which is about an 8.5" wide tire. Depending on your existing rims, you might need wider rims to use this tire. The old 6.00 and 6.50 by 16 sizes have not been available through normal tire dealer channels for many (20+?) years. The 7.50x16 is still around in a limited selection of tires but that is quite a bit taller than what you are looking for.

Many years ago my grandfather converted his old '55 Chevy pickup to modern radial tires which resulted in greatly increased steering effort. He had to buy another set of bias tires to put it back the way it was.

If you are are willing to stay with a bias ply tire you might be able to get reproductions from a specialty place like Coker Tire. Check Hemmings Motor News to find their advertisement.

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Glen, this has come up quite frequently on the Willys Tech mailing list, it's hosted on Yahoo- you should subscribe & do a search for the relavent articles.

The general concensus is that radial tires are the way to go, IIRC Dunlop "Rovers" seem to be the current favorite. The proper sizes don't have P code, they're still listed as something like 10.5x31. The narrowest I've found listed were something like 8.5, although I've heard there may be a 7.5 " bias ply "snowplow" tire available (Firestone?). If you want to stay with the NDTs they're available from Coker Tire, & the current US goverment supplier for NDTs (has a name that starts with "T" but thats all I can remember :( ) seems to have local dealers all over the place for thier main line which is heavy equipment tires. Check around, ya might get lucky :).

Howard.

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