265/65/R17 tires on a L400???

[Simon84]

A friend is offering me a set of 265/65 R17 Nokian WRX (first version) on 6 bolt rims from his Toyota Land Cruiser JDM.

Would these fit ok on my 95 L400?

Here it is currently with LT235/70 R16 BF goodrich TA's.

[Simon84]

In case anyone is interested, I tried the 265/65R17 tires on Land cruiser rims.
The centre bore hole was too small. It was very close but would not slide over the hub (the L400 is 108mm centre bore)
It looked like the tires would have been ok on the vehicle. I am confident that there would have been some rubbing on tight turns. The offset of the land cruiser rims would not have worked out either. The after market rims I have on the van are 16x8 with roughly 0 offset.

So, I just swapped on some snow tires I had to the existing rims and will source some new rims for summer tires at a wheel shop in Calgary.

If any Delica owners in Calgary have any suggestions on where to go, that would be cool.

Here's the new tires. Not as aggressive as the BFG TA's but I have way more confidence in them for winter/mountain driving.

[Simon84]

Another tire/rim update on my van.
I picked up a set of steel pathfinder rims with 235/75R15 tires. They were a good deal at $100 for the set.

They appeared to fit the 108mm centre hub and the offset was good.
I went to put them on last week and hit some trouble with the centre hub. The rims are not quite 108mm diameter centre hub. There are six broad lobes (one near each lug nut hole) that make the the effective centre hub about 106mm. I ended up using an angle grinder to take about 1mm off each of the lobes. This allowed the rims to fit over the centre hubs and bolted on good. I was concerned about screwing with rims. I guess these work as lugcentric even though it seems that they are hubcentric. I was cautious about it and checked them regularly on their first voyage on a road trip to Nelson. I torqued them to about 85lb. BTW I have aluminum lug nuts. Not my choice, but came with the van and OZ racing aluminum rims. I'm dubious but they do look good. Anyway, they were fine. No loosening of the nuts and no vibrations. In fact it runs great on these rims and tires. Much quieter than the mud terrain tires that come on the van and quieter than the snow tires.

Here they are:



They have that, cheap, yet oh so effective, silver spray paint on them.
I may go with white when they need a touch up.