Critique my Suspension plan

autoxcuda said
The widest you can fit.

A 245/40/17 with 5.25 backspace will fit.

Is the car painted and you don't want to modify the wheel lips/openings?

If not....

Lip the top of the front fender lip, cut/fold a 1.5" wide x 3" tall pie slice out of the bottom front fender lip. Then use the lower fender support brace adjuster to hold the bottom of the fender out. Also, if you fender has upper fender braces, move them out as much as possible....

With all that, you can run 275/40/17 tire up front with 17x9 rim with 5.25 to 5.5" backspacing.

Then you'd have the same size tires front and rear.

I have not started on it yet. Just trying to plan everything or as much as I can before I start, and start school. I'm not sure how much time to research once I start it might not be bad if I wasn't moving this winter And I want to have a plan and follow it.

I'm OK with trimming the fenders to fit a wider front tire and running all 4 the same size. It would be nice to rotate them the right way. How much difference in handle and traction going with a 275 vs a 255?

autoxcuda said
I bent the center (not the lip) of a steel rally rim going off track in my barracuda once when it had stock cbody tie rods. No problem to the moog tie rods.

I have never had any issues with Moog ball joints and tie rods. But I have only been running them on my 2002 Dakota for 3 years now. And like them so far. And all the ones I broke where on bigger trucks I beat the snot out of.