Rims that can carry weight: How to evaluate?

[Deathmetaljoe]

Alright, I was at a car/bike show a couple weeks ago at the California Speedway and I was talking to a sales rep. at American Racing's sister company that makes all the car rims, not truck rims like american racing. Now I was talking to him about buying rims for my taco, but explained that I still need to be able to carry the full amount of weight or VERY close to the same amount of weight in the truck as I can stock. He was telling me that I would need to check and make sure the tolerance or something on the rims I want to get would be able to take the stress of carrying weight. Does anyone know about this? Is it really that critical? This is really the only thing stopping me from goin' out and buyin' my High Speed Racing Speedys'. Again, I want to carry lots of weight without worrying about my rims cracking. Any thoughts?

you'd need a rim that can handle the weight, along with a tire that can also handle it. Generally lowering your taco means running a small tire, which means greatly reduced carrying capacity. I don't have exact figures, but look for what rim size you want, and what tire would be required to meet your weight-carrying requirments. Then see how low you can go with that setup.