In one of my previous posts, I shared some photos of the original factory wheels that came with the Rover. They had been painted several times and were not the correct color. In fact, they had been painted so many times that some of the factory marks were missing. Well, the wheels were blasted and then sent our to be powder coated. After removing all of the layers of paint and grime, the LP861 mark showed through on all 5 wheels. The powder coater didn’t have “limestone” as a color option, so we searched the color book and picked something that looked to be close to limestone.

A close up of one of the wheels and the LP861 mark is shown below

I also purchased a complete set of bias ply off road tires, shown below. These tires are manufactured by Coker Tire, a company that specializes in vintage tires. The tires are the Super Traxion STAs, size L78-15. You can purchase them direct from Coker or do what I did. I purchased them from Summit Racing. They cost a little more when purchased at Summit but shipping was free. So all in, I saved a few dollars by buying from Summit.

The last picture shows the tubes that I purchased with the tires. These are also a Coker item purchased through Summit. Technically, I could run these tires without tubes, but they came from the factory with tubes, so we will run tubes in these wheels. I also plan to fit out a set of 16″ wheels (the other set that came with the truck) with BF Goodrich A/T off road tires as an alternative to the 15″ setup.