top of the screen about 3/4 of the way across there is a button highlighted called search...it is your best friend in the world.

 

:/.... I know that I have looked into it and that is why I said ' I hear you need spacers ' etc I would just like some more recent input or just some more input for re-assurance, or maybe someone else will have a new Idea. Never know ....

 

If you install the lift, look for some tall skinny tires to install on the stock wheels. 9.00 x 16 or 11.x16. If your chasing storms in the midwest you can find these size tires all over at farm and feed stores throughout the heartland. Google Co-Op Grip Spur tires and you will see what I mean.

I think Humvee tires and wheels are too heavy for your needs. Go with the taller narrower tire for high mileage driving load range E. would be preferable.

 

I would get another vehicle.

I have a CUCV that I love however, I sometimes fear that when I will go to turn the key that it will not start.

Also, on long trips it gets a little annoying not having A/C, listening to the engine struggle for 65, and wandering why you didn't just start with a K30 and build it the way you wanted and saved the extra cash.

 

1. spacers
2. recenter the wheels
3. swap in a set of front dually hubs and a wide dually 14 bolt or Dana 70 rear axle.

 

Steel wheelspacers torqued every 100 miles or so would be the least expensive way to go. Wider dually hubs and rear axle are easy too but the tires will stick out about 2.5" all around. Recentered wheels are probably the option but run about $800-$1100 per set.

If you are going to run the military tires, find ones that are like new and have no dry rot or cracks on the sidewalls. For storm chasing I would keep the rubber runflats too. I run 12 and 24 bolt wheels and 37" Goodyears and love them. I have wheeled at 0 psi on the runflats with no problems.

This is a 1986 with a dually Dana 60 and surplus h1s/37s and 8" springs (ignore the rear tires). 4" lift and trimmed fenders would be better, or rear springs up front.

Browse http://www.steelsoldiers.com/cucv/ lots of good cucv info

 

Found this pic (looks like 2" spacers?), anyone have more pictures of CUCVs/K30s with stock H1 wheels?

 

Don't you want to be as close to the ground as you can when chasing storms? I thought the idea was to keep the wind from flowing under and lifting you up?

 

Chasing storms is one thing, but if it turns tail and starts chasing me, one of the last things I would want to have under my hood to get away from it would be a 6.2 diesel

 

This^^^. Why on earth would you pick a cucv to chase storms? You aren't going to be catching or avoiding any storms with that ****ing 6.2.

 

I was running stock H1s and 37" Goodyears on a 60 and 14 bolt for a while with 2.75" spacers. I'm now running Dually hubs up front and spacers in the back with 39.5 TSLs, I'm planning in installing a late model 14 bolt with srw hubs at some point though. Here's a pic or two of the truck with spacers:

 

if your looking to gain top end speed then bigger tires are not going to get you there. i know therotically the bigger the tire the further you will go per revolution but on the flip side the bigger the tire the more weight your engine has to turn. most likley you will actually go slower with the engine you have and a bigger tire.....imo......you will not be able to make the truck go much faster (top end) than it already is.

 

I would imagine he wants to go up in size because of the 4.56 gears, those CUCVs top out around 55-60 on stock tires