Military Goodyear tires/ H1 beadlock question

[K85 Octane]

Ok, so searching this topic has proven to show it's been beaten to death. My current questions were answered in a fuzzy way with these past threads, so I'm asking them in a specific way.

I read these tires are good for street use. Meaning, they wear ok and perform ok. I also read the H1 rims are DOT approved and make a good match with the tires. I like driving on the freeway and would rather not compromise that, however having a tire and rim combo I can air down sounds great. I've always enjoyed doing trails like the Rubicon, plus or minus dirt. So this is my main playground.

To stop rambling. I'm interested in the tires and rims in the classifieds, he is only 4 miles from me. I don't want to waste the mans time by being unsure. The worst thing about H1 rims is the 16.5 size, a damn near extinct size. Therefore I'm just about limiting myself to these Goodyear tires. Cheap and easy to get is a HUGE plus, which they are in my area. Am I going to be happy towing my boat, flying @ 90mph on the freeway, airing down for the dunes, and tackling Rubicon type trails? Or do the tires and rims run unstable at speeds, suck donkey balls for sand, and lack traction for even Moab type stuff?

Thanks in advance

 

[KansasTwister]

Another thing you need to thing about is balancing, so to add a question to his post, can the balancing beads be used with what I think your gonna be using, the trail worthy fab pvc inserts.

 

[Hogback Fabrication]

Traction wise there isn't a tire that is much worse, short of street designed tires.

Wear wise they are OK. They are really cheap.

I have them on my tow rig and have been around tons of them on the trail.

 

[Chaffin]

Ok, so searching this topic has proven to show it's been beaten to death. My current questions were answered in a fuzzy way with these past threads, so I'm asking them in a specific way.

I read these tires are good for street use. Meaning, they wear ok and perform ok. I also read the H1 rims are DOT approved and make a good match with the tires. I like driving on the freeway and would rather not compromise that, however having a tire and rim combo I can air down sounds great. I've always enjoyed doing trails like the Rubicon, plus or minus dirt. So this is my main playground.

To stop rambling. I'm interested in the tires and rims in the classifieds, he is only 4 miles from me. I don't want to waste the mans time by being unsure. The worst thing about H1 rims is the 16.5 size, a damn near extinct size. Therefore I'm just about limiting myself to these Goodyear tires. Cheap and easy to get is a HUGE plus, which they are in my area. Am I going to be happy towing my boat, flying @ 90mph on the freeway, airing down for the dunes, and tackling Rubicon type trails? Or do the tires and rims run unstable at speeds, suck donkey balls for sand, and lack traction for even Moab type stuff?

Thanks in advance

Ok to anwser your questions as best as I can... with the four years of active Duty Military I have... I have had these tires mounted on the H1 type vehicles we have... they are good performing tires... they do decent in sand/mud/snow highway speeds being 90 mph I wouldnt know since the trucks we had wouldnt exceed over 55mph lol... They do great under a Load I.E. Up Armor on the trucks (curb weight of the Truck with the Armor is about 16,000lbs) a fully loaded trailer with about 3000lbs in it. In my own opinion if I could get my hands on them I would defiantly get a set for myself...

 

[blazinzuk]

They wear well on the street, they are a fairly hard tire. So traction off road is alright but nothing that anyone is going to be impressed by. I would rate them just below the average tire off road.

Flat centers I am not of fan of. They are much harder to get in the wheel straight.

The wheels to start with have a huge impact on how they end up, I have seen some wheels that were way out of round. I do not know if trailworthy measures them or not.

The tires will be fine flying down the highway. Will the rims, I simply do not know. The only real way to know would be to run them. Recentering puts the straightness of the wheel very much in the hands of the person doing the recentering.

I have on my recentered H1s done fine on the road for short jaunts, why they would be any different on long ones I do not know. I am although running a much larger bias ply tire. I have had my wheel tire combo up to about 70 mph without much issue at all


Just so you know, right on the clamping ring its says DOT military use only

That being said you will have to see how tight they are in your area on vehicle inspections

 

[AJMBLAZER]

You didn't specify so I assume you're talking about the radial Wrangler MT's with the old school pattern? Not the bias ply Wrangler RT/II's with a sorta Swamper TSL pattern?

The MT's aren't bad on the road but they're not terrific off road. Weak sidewalls.

 

[stumpjump]

Good, Cheap, Easy-- You can pick two but you rarely if ever get all three. I run the 37's and beadlocks because they're cheap and easy. At 5lbs of pressure the tires do ok off road, and they run down the street great and i can get a complete set of 4 for $350.

The good thing about the h1s is that super swamper and pitbull still make tires for them and aren't showing any signs of stopping, giving you the option down the road to upgrade to a more serious off road tire if you want.... i've been eyeing up the 42" rocker for quite a while now...