LOL.... Anyone with 36's or below... If two vehicles with 37's are at a 4 way everyone need to yield to the Jeep. If TWO jeeps with 37's are at a 4 way stop you yeild to the one who guns it first! =)
LOL.... Anyone with 36's or below... If two vehicles with 37's are at a 4 way everyone need to yield to the Jeep. If TWO jeeps with 37's are at a 4 way stop you yeild to the one who guns it first! =)
Interco tire says after 2 years the tires lose oils in the rubber making them more suceptible to failure, so if your gunna buy it use it! other wise its going to be a usless rubber, and no one wants a usless rubber...
-Steve D
SO you guys are saying it's OK to swap a left tire with a right tire?
I thought this would cause problems with the carcass coming apart.
If it's OK I'll start swapping mine in. I was afraid once I put it on it was only good for that direction of rotation.
SO you guys are saying it's OK to swap a left tire with a right tire?
I thought this would cause problems with the carcass coming apart.
If it's OK I'll start swapping mine in. I was afraid once I put it on it was only good for that direction of rotation.
There are "directional tires", where the tread is not the same forward and back. These should not be reversed, of course. Old radial tires used to have some problems with changing direction (tread separation, I think), but I believe this is no longer an issue.
When I have 5 tires that match, I rotate 5. There was a time when I only did 4 and kept the spare new, figuring when I bought new tires I would only buy three, move the spare to the road and keep the best of the old tires as the spare. But tires last longer now and the manufacturers change designs more often, so the chance of being able to buy new tires that match the spare are rather poor.
Correct. When the American tire companies first started making radials they couldn't keep the belts from shifting, and always keeping the tires rolling the same direction sort of helped that. The owner's manual for my '88 Cherokee shows 4- and 5-tire rotations that never change sides.
The manual for my wife's 2000 shows an 'X' for the 4-tire rotation and a 5-tire rotation that also shifts tires from one side to the other. It's not a problem these days, and a better 5-tire rotation.
Say you have an EZ locker in the front and a Detroit Soft Locker in the back. What direction do you want to rotate your tires when you do? Just front left to rear left or front left to rear right? =)
I've got ARBs front and rear, and I rotate them like this.
spare-pass rear-pass front-driver rear-driver front-spare
This rotates each tire to each tire location in turn and should give totally even wear...
There are other ways you can do it, as long as the theory remains the same.
cheers!
Another reason to rotate all 5 is that when you're rotating your tires, you take one off and put one right back on. No resting the XJ on a jackstand or anything while you go jack up the next wheel. Makes rotating your tires a little easier.
Well according to Interco (TrXus, Super Swampers, etc) they recommend that
"It is recommended that tires used on four wheel drive vehicles be rotated front to rear and rear to front about every four to five thousand miles...don't criss-cross."
5K and my Truxus MTs would be grooved like boggers. I did the X-pattern rotate yesterday and now they are louder then crap and pull to the right. Hopefully they'll even out soon.
:doh: Are you guys missing something completely or just can't read? I will try this again...
The people who make these tires tell you NOT TO CRISS CROSS THEM, that means no X pattern. But if you seem to know better than the people who actually make the damn product feel free to screw up your tires:
"It is recommended that tires used on four wheel drive vehicles be rotated front to rear and rear to front about every four to five thousand miles...don't criss-cross."
:doh: Are you guys missing something completely or just can't read? I will try this again...
The people who make these tires tell you NOT TO CRISS CROSS THEM, that means no X pattern. But if you seem to know better than the people who actually make the damn product feel free to screw up your tires
"It is recommended that tires used on four wheel drive vehicles be rotated front to rear and rear to front about every four to five thousand miles...don't criss-cross."
Well, let's think about this. The tires that come on a new Jeep are usually radial tires meant for going straight on the highway. The large off-roading tires you put on your jeep for offroading have a completely different purpose. So yes, I would go by the instructions from the people who make offroad tires, whether Interco or not, the concept is still the same.
