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Subject:Re: larger tires under the front
From:Sudhir Desai
Date:Tue, 9 Sep 1997 21:14:55 -0400

On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, David Bayer wrote:
>I found that the new 27x8.5 Dunlop Radial
> Rover RVs I had on the spare was rubbing on the lower hose to the raditor.
> It seems that this was causing a small leak from (I am guessing) the union
> of that lower hose to the radiator. Has anyone with oversized tires run into
> this problem?
> dave

i am running 27x8.5 BFGoodrich Radial All-Terrains, but i haven't had
that problem because i purchased a tire(not BFG) that was almost the same
size(diameter) but a little narrower so that i have had no problems with the
hoses as of yet.

sudhir desai
cdes@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu
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