Help with tires

[James2]

Could someone measure and post the inside diameter of these tires, please. Trying to check rim sizes, Thanks

[Jürgen M.]

Hi James,

No problem!

The inside diameter is 26mms.

The outside is 42.5 mms!

They're nice tires! Look pretty good!

Don't wanna hijack, just for you to see how they look! 

 

Edited December 8, 2024 by Jürgen M.

[James2]

6 hours ago, Jürgen M. said:

Hi James,

No problem!

The inside diameter is 26mms.

The outside is 42.5 mms!

They're nice tires! Look pretty good!

 

Don't wanna hijack, just for you to see how they look! 

 

Thanks for the response, would that be a 22.5 in scale? Nice truck too. The wheels I purchased measure 23mm, the search for tires begins.

Edited December 8, 2024 by James2

[Biggu]

3 hours ago, James2 said:

Thanks for the response, would that be a 22.5 in scale? Nice truck too. The wheels I purchased measure 23mm, the search for tires begins.

James. Check out STSupplyco.com    Paul has quite a good selection. He is my go to …..

[Jürgen M.]

Or use the Revell soft rubber tires! They're quite flexible for several rim sizes!

Otherwise use printed rims! If you know someone with a 3D printer I could design some as you like and send you the .stl file.

I did it for Ron, If you like, just tell me and send me a PM with the rim design you like or a picture.

Glad you like the truck. Thanks!

Oh and the rims would be 26" If I calculated correctly, not 22.5!

Edited December 8, 2024 by Jürgen M.

[Force]

I believe they are supposed to be the same size as the tires in the White Freightliner FLA kits, and they are marked 11.00-22 like the parts box wheels are on the package.
But I tried a White Freightliner wheel in the parts pack tire and it's a bit loose, so the inside diameter of the tire is slightly larger than the kit tires where the wheel fit snuggly.
22.5 is modern tubeless tires and 22 is tube tires and 20 inch tube tires was replaced with 22.5 tubeless, 22 inch tube tires was replaced with 24.5 inch tubeless tires, so the outside diameter are very close and you can pair up a 20 inch wheel with a 22.5 inch wheel and likewise for the 22 and 24.5.

[Scott Eriksen]

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[OldTrucker]

15 hours ago, Jürgen M. said:

Hi James,

No problem!

The inside diameter is 26mms.

The outside is 42.5 mms!

They're nice tires! Look pretty good!

Don't wanna hijack, just for you to see how they look! 

 

Hey Scott, nice looking rig! 

Just a tip, tyo get the tires to fit tighter to the rim I use rolled up napkins or kleenex to hold they out at the bead.

[OldTrucker]

On 12/6/2024 at 3:13 PM, James2 said:

Could someone measure and post the inside diameter of these tires, please. Trying to check rim sizes, Thanks

These tires fit the Dodge L700 wheel great!

They are the ones used in the AMT Freightliner SD/DD kit.

[Force]

11 minutes ago, OldTrucker said:

These tires fit the Dodge L700 wheel great!

They are the ones used in the AMT Freightliner SD/DD kit.

Not exactly as these are nameless tires, and I tried the wheels from the AMT White Freightliner kit and they are loose in these but fits snuggly in the kit tires.

[Bills72sj]

20 hours ago, Jürgen M. said:

They're nice tires! Look pretty good!

Don't wanna hijack, just for you to see how they look! 

 

To eliminate the "unbeaded" tire look, get some grey backing rod from Home Deport or Lowes.

[OldTrucker]

45 minutes ago, Bills72sj said:

To eliminate the "unbeaded" tire look, get some grey backing rod from Home Deport or Lowes.

Never seen that before Thanks!

[Jürgen M.]

I actually believe that these tires are 1/24 even if sold as 1/25! I used 1/24 rims for my General and they fit perfectly! Otherwise I would have had to print some!

Edited December 9, 2024 by Jürgen M.

[Jürgen M.]

I usually use these soft rubber Revell tires!

They fit rims from 18 to about 25 mms in diameter! You can also vary the width of the rims from 7 to about 10 mms. If you fill them like shown above maybe even up to 12 mms! Depends on your own taste!

Of course if you want rougher looking tires they're not first choice but for road use they do the job!

[Force]

On 12/9/2024 at 7:26 AM, Jürgen M. said:

I actually believe that these tires are 1/24 even if sold as 1/25! I used 1/24 rims for my General and they fit perfectly! Otherwise I would have had to print some!

They are pretty much like the tires in the White Freightliner kits because they are the same size as them, but when they cleaned up and modified the tooling and took away the side markings they must have taken too much away in the center of the tires as the White Freightliner wheels are loose in them...and they are the largest truck wheels AMT have done together with the wheels in the Diamond  REO and the Autocar kits, the 10-hole Alcoa's in the Kenworth K100 Aerodyne also use these the same tire size.
They are definately not 1:24 because AMT has not developed and done any 1:24th scale kits ever, no trucks and no cars, the 1:24 scale truck and trailer kits Round 2 have issued lately are Italeri kits in AMT boxes.
So the parts pack tires are meant for their own kits...unfortunately they don't have any parts pack wheels that fits these tires.
AMT has only done two tire sizes for their truck kits, 10.00-20 and 11.00-22, and ERTL had 11.00-20 in their truck kits wich is larger both in diameter and width than the AMT 10.00-20 tires and they are slightly smaller in diameter than the AMT 11.00-22 tires.

Edited December 10, 2024 by Force

[Jürgen M.]

I agree! I didn't mean to say they were actually meant as 1/24s, just that they have the size! 

I have 1/24 scale rims from European trucks and they fit these tires perfectly! 

You're probably right about the modification of the tools and that they must have taken away a bit too much!

Anyway, whatever the reason is that these tires are too large for 1/25 rims, we're all modelers who know how to approach these problems! 

Good luck James in finding the right rims!