need some advice on my rig..

[Hbryanlopez]

allright guys so i'm taking a 3,000 mile round trip this summer to CO from south texas and i'm planning to to put the rig back to stock height and stock tire size, 265/70/17.

here's why and I would like to here your thoughts.
I love the way the rig looks, I don't take this off roading, the only off roading I do is when I go to the beach. I am now thinking of the future and realize there wont be any more than the beach because of the area that I live. I want to go back to stock height because all I did it for was for the looks and nothing else. since where I live is all flats. The height has given problems to my short wife and quite frankly i'm tired of 15-16mpg also related to the larger tires. I feel I can achieve a similar look with my current wheels and a more aggressive at tire such as the duratrac and possibly spacers.

I would like to replace my current 285s with duratrac 265s and back to stock height. I use to run 19-20MPG on stocks and I miss that, I know its not much but in the long run I know it will be worth it.

I also have bilsteins in the front and i'm debating on weather to set the at .85 or back to 0 stock height? what are your thought on this?

here's a current..

 

[bimrunner]

If you want it level, go with .85. If you want completely stock, go with o. Won't have much affect on gas mileage but could affect when loaded or towing because a leveled truck with 5100 can easily go into a reverse rake in said conditions. If you like the looks though, you could always add airbags to level it out under load/towing.

 

[Jeremy556]

Where in Colorado are you going? Seems you might have a chance to put your mods to work.

 

[G8RB8_12SR5]

I'm not well versed enough in Bilsteins since I don't have them so I won't comment on that but if you're curious what stock size DuraTracs look like, Auto Rotate (Page 86 of the Lifted Pics Thread), H&K Runner (also somewhere in that thread), and Antman (build thread) all run stock size (and those are just the ones off the top of my head). I think they look good. If you were to go with them and don't off road I would go with the "C" Load since they're 44lbs (stock tires are 39lbs IIRC), so it would be the least amount of added unsprung weight and get you back closer to the 19-20mpg you used to see, though it is a more aggressive tread pattern which has some effect. Good luck and enjoy the trip!:tea: