Outer Limits 4x4 Board

GRPABT1 wrote:

macca81 wrote:yea i watched it all, but ya would think that punching the throttle abit harder would have given the same result only 2 mins earlier

Or maybe flipped it

also good for us to watch

I have seen on monster trucks they have a special tool that just peels the rubber off. wouldnt it be nice if a company made a slick tyre with heaps of tread depth so you could make your own design.

matto wrote:I have seen on monster trucks they have a special tool that just peels the rubber off. wouldnt it be nice if a company made a slick tyre with heaps of tread depth so you could make your own design.

that would be great... but imagine the patience you would need to do 4(at least) tyres, all with the same pattern.... would be nice to do if you had the time tho

back to the original question


i reckon great idea.

I used to run 36 TSL's up front and 37 boggers out the back and thought it ran well for the short time i ran them before i sold the truck.

boggers dont ride as bad as most say. but they are worse than simex, maxxis or TSL's

running different tyres fornt and back is a great idea just takes some getting used to.

matto wrote:I have seen on monster trucks they have a special tool that just peels the rubber off. wouldnt it be nice if a company made a slick tyre with heaps of tread depth so you could make your own design.

Tyre groovers are common in motorsport and available from must truck parts suppliers. They're around the $500 mark. Goodyear make a range of slicks that can be grooved, but the other way is to vulcanise tread on to slick - that's how most sand paddles are made.

There was also a thread on Pirate about using a arc welder on a low setting and a hacksaw blade to make a homebuilt groover.

BFG make a "bare" Krawler that can be grooved to suit the application. Ungrooved, they look a bit like military bar treads.

There is a guy running ex CORR (off road racing) hand grooved race tyres on the front of his jeep in the US. Many of the US teams use a "blank" as a basis for race tyres- these have very minimal tread and are grooved to suit the track, but they won't run as much tread depth as a dedicated off road tyre so you couldn't make a super aggressive tyre out of them.

Pretty much all heavy trucks run different tyres for drive and steer axles. It's not a wierd idea at all to have a different tyre or a different pattern for a different task.

At a slightly different level, I massively improved the off road performance (admittedly from a low starting point) of some 35" bias claws by running the fronts backwards.

Steve/