YELLAHEEP
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I drank the kool-aid (project Mall Crawler)
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mcantar18c
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God damn Mike, I don't give a fawk what color your Jeep is. I liked the color in the pic, BFD. I'm painting my rig cause I want to, not cause I wanna be like you, get the fawk over it. And now that I have access to a legit paint shop, I'll be painting it whatever color I damn well please.
And HMMWVs or not, I'm shooting for 37s.
I just spent 10 min. googling HMMWV tires being used off road......
The only thing good I found posted about them was that they were cheap.
No one liked 'em off road.
No one liked 'em on road unless they were aired down to 20 psi and at that they were "squirrely" on the road.
Many complained about the weight of 'em (10 plies???)
Many complained about very early onset of dry-rot
I didn't find anyone having mounted them on anything less than a 1/2 ton truck.
The guy that ClarkPeach got his rig from had those HMMWV tires and custom Hummer bead locks..... he went to sell the set of 7 tires and 4 wheels and it took FOREVER to sell 'em.
I'd call that fairly good reason to believe they're not a good choice..... they certainly aren't one of those "best kept secrets" for tire awesomeness......
If I can find a decent set of MTRs on CL for the same or less than new HMMWVs, I'll get em, but anything that cheap is probably gonna be worn to hell.
Don't have pics of their rigs, or know where their build threads are, but if you look around I've seen 2 or 3 rigs here on
that are running em. I think Stump may have been one of em but I'm not sure, could be wrong on that. One of em is a pretty beat up early model black rig, don't know who that'd be though.I do know that I was the only vehicle on my street that could make it up the hill in front of my house last winter when that huge snow storm hit.
mcantar18c
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I'm saving money on tires so I can afford other shit like nice axles.
As I said before, 8.8 or 44 rear. With 35s I'd keep the 30 up front but with 37s I'll probably pick up a 44.
And, as I said before, the newer HMMWVs came in 17s. Or I could just run adapters with 16.5s. Or I could redrill the WMS. Or I could go all out and get some tons.
As I said before, 8.8 or 44 rear. With 35s I'd keep the 30 up front but with 37s I'll probably pick up a 44.
And, as I said before, the newer HMMWVs came in 17s. Or I could just run adapters with 16.5s. Or I could redrill the WMS. Or I could go all out and get some tons.
YELLAHEEP
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Nope, not Stumpy, he was running IROK's or something like that.
If that vehicle were an XJ on HMMWV tires, that'd mean something. On a big Ford diesel 4x4...... meh. My Dodge dually was the only thing moving on my block in any of the last 5 years of blizzard snows...... and I'm on stock tires.
ok but those tires dont have a safety bead, hence the reason they have the double beadlock setup. so they are gonna pop off bead and/or burp air A LOT if on a normal wheels and not beadlocks, more specifically double beadlocks. so then you cant air down as much, so less traction and therefore more tire spin, so better build up them axles well
if youre trying to do it cheap, do 35's, will cost half of what it will take to remotely safely run those tires
if youre trying to do it cheap, do 35's, will cost half of what it will take to remotely safely run those tires
mcantar18c
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Uphill, in 2wd, with pretty worn tires (around 20-30%). Not too bad.
blindfolded with a 10k trailer behind ya too huh?:looser:
YELLAHEEP
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- Littleton, Colorado
YELLAHEEP
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- Littleton, Colorado
Yeah, I knew it was some funky newer-at-the-time tread...... but definitely not millitary tires.
mcantar18c
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Never had a problem with them popping off the beads, and both trucks I had with em were the 16.5 flavor which are much more prone to popping beads. Both were run pretty hard in mud and on (non-crawling) trails.
:doh: Of course, silly me.
Broke the 4wd linkage on the last mudding trip and hadn't fixed it yet. Granted, there was plenty of wheel spin, and took a few min to get up the 100yd long hill, and had to back down and get momentum on flat ground a few times
. But it made it up.
mcantar18c
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55, IIRC
mcantar18c
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Hmm... that ain't a bad deal
I absolutely hate Swampers (for something driven on the road), but that price is hard to say no to.
I absolutely hate Swampers (for something driven on the road), but that price is hard to say no to.
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ColoradoRaptor
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This thread brings the funny....... :roflmao: For someone with a banged up foot on delayed entry who was looking for a winter beater......... you sure have huge plans :dunno: Building a well equipped and functional rig takes time and money, something you are short on. Not to say you cannot do it but hey..... You drank the kool-aid like the other kool kids did.
