Outer Limits 4x4 Board

Hi all
I am looking to get new tyres for my NH Pajero and have decided to go a bit bigger, so thought I'd ask all in the know what is the best size. My NH has been wound up at the front and has 530mm from centre of wheel to guard lip, and the rear is leaf sprung with lengthed shackles giving 550mm from centre to guard lip. I do plenty of beach work and want to start doing some outback tracks so am looking for an all round usage. Any suggestions on tyre brands is also welcome.
Denny

for a cheap, good performer i had the nankang mudstars in a 33x12.5x15. I rekon they were good because they didnt quite measure up to the actual size, a little smaller, so more like a 32x11.5x15 and seemed to be a good tyre for the little shortie paj. 31"s are a good size, 33"s easy enough to fit if you want that little bit bigger.

any traditional tyre will do the job, mtrs, coopers, maxxis, whatever. Youll get a thousand different opinions of a thousand different people, try soemthing you know someone has or you like. I went a little bit different with my newest tyres just to give them a go, and i love them, maxxis trepadors, they dont make a 33" but do come in a 31". Also depends on style of driving, and how many kms you do on what surfaces. Either way iv had M/ts for the past 2.5 yrs and its a daily driven car.

dean

a leaf sprung gen 2

Yeah
I was a bit surprised after I bought it and had a look under. As I automaticly thoght it would be coil sprung. It is a GL base pack mabe coil only come in GLX and GLS.
Denny

do you know what diff gears you have? that will tell you what size tires you can run also

No I haven't looked to see what ratios I'm running, is there an easy way to check.
Denny

check the plate on the firewall on the passengers side.
where it says transaxle.

eg. mine says v5mt1 5285

Hi
Just had a look and my plate is on the under side of the bonnet (go figure) the axle is V5M21 4875.
Denny

then you can run up to 33s without too much loss of power etc...

what size do you already have? whats written on the tire placard?

yeh 4.875 or 4.88s whatever, youll be right for up to about 34"s i rekon. I ran 33" with 4.625 always thinking i had 4.88s until just before i sold it and figured it had 4.625. All that time i didnt think the gearing was too bad and it drove well on road, i just never checked.

my old shorty was a gl but it had coils, some of the gen 2 shorties have leafs too though, usually the ones with the poo brown interior, yours got this too???

dean

Thanks heaps.
When you ran the 33" did you have any probs with scrubing?
No mine has grey trim with like a check black and grey insert (similar to the early holden) it must be nearly the first run of gen II build date Feb 91.

34s might be a tighter fit tho, then you would need to get correct offset rims etc.. to make sure you dont get too much scrubbing etc..
i dont think he would want to cut his guards either.

also the only 34" i know of would be a JT2 and thats more of a 35" anyway

the 33s on mine dont scrub except for on the inside at full lock. but my rims are mags with not much offset.
it only scrubs very slightly so im not going to bother to change the rims

my 33"s were on cruiser offset 15x8 sunnies. never scrubbed. some say patrol is a better offset.

but yeh no scrubbing, just meant that you should be sweet with 33"s running 4.88s.

dean.

Excellent
Thanks a lot for the info, hard to get now days.
Was lookin at a set of MAXXIS BIGHORN MT-762 33/12.5X15 TYRES and the guy said they wouldn't fit, now I think he might be wrong. Am already running a set of sunraiser 8" rims running 235's and they are just protuding from the guard so they are offset out quite a bit.
Thanks again Denny

just ask for some cruiser offset sunnies when you get the tires,
should only charge you $50 a rim