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Mud/Snow tires?
- Thread starter big pappa b
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63chevyll
1/2 ton status
May have to take you up on that.
Anything beats the last way I grooved some tires.
Skill saw......Yikes, never doing that again.
Anything beats the last way I grooved some tires.
Skill saw......Yikes, never doing that again.
I thought about doing that way once. Then I decided it would be better for my health if I just forked out the couple bucks for the groover.
Feel free to swing by any time and pick it up. I'm out by the airport in between it and where KTMs old place was.Z
63chevyll
1/2 ton status
Very cool I'm out that way all the time.
pm coming in the future
pm coming in the future
big pappa b
3/4 ton status
Z
You in Falcon? I' juust north of stapleton
big pappa b
3/4 ton status
I drive past your place 5 days a week going to Schriever
Prices went up?
I bought it for $64.99 and free shipping, and it came with the number 3 head and 10 blades.
I bought it for $64.99 and free shipping, and it came with the number 3 head and 10 blades.
http://www.bryke.com/902-100/Tire+Groover+Head.html
stock head that comes with it works good up to 38x12.50 tsl swapers for wear bars to match width.
and here is pics of groved h1 tires.
let the gun heat up and do the work. you will know when your going to fast for the heat to catch up. the blade and heat will cut just fine if you use both as a team and not force it.
also your shoulders will be whipped when done if its your first time.
Do mud tires actually work in the snow? I have a set of BFG KM1's on my Blazer the year we had a bunch of snow it sucked big time. My truck did 3 different 360's 3 seperate times and all I was doing was driving straight.
The problem seems to be how wide these tires are and they load up with snow and ice so they turn into a big snowballs. The smaller cars create ruts in the snow the blazer tires would then not fit in those ruts. It would slide down one of those ruts and then that's all she wrote I would spin like I was on ice. Driving not it the ruts was not always physically possible by the way the roads were made. sometimes you had sidewalks and islands in the center which pretty much made you drive down the center of the road.
The plan was to drive the blazer cause I didn't mind someone crashing into it as much. But it was WAY to scary. I ended up driving the Range Rover with low profile tires and traction control. I had way more control of the vehicle.
The problem seems to be how wide these tires are and they load up with snow and ice so they turn into a big snowballs. The smaller cars create ruts in the snow the blazer tires would then not fit in those ruts. It would slide down one of those ruts and then that's all she wrote I would spin like I was on ice. Driving not it the ruts was not always physically possible by the way the roads were made. sometimes you had sidewalks and islands in the center which pretty much made you drive down the center of the road.
The plan was to drive the blazer cause I didn't mind someone crashing into it as much. But it was WAY to scary. I ended up driving the Range Rover with low profile tires and traction control. I had way more control of the vehicle.
It depends what kind of snow driving.
Highway is definitely not the best use for the mud tires, you can do it but you need to drive a little slower, although these tires are narrower and hard so they do better than the BFG.
Highway is definitely not the best use for the mud tires, you can do it but you need to drive a little slower, although these tires are narrower and hard so they do better than the BFG.
Snow packed in the tread voids will give you more traction. Snow sticks to snow. Ever seen a snow/winter tire in use? They load up with snow in the voids.
Meanwhile, add siping to those mud tires. Their width is a problem for you but I ran mud tires the entire 5 winters I lived in Northern Michigan and with siping didn't regret it at all. The aggressive tread to dig through the drifts and the siping and soft rubber to stick to the road.*
*Provided you don't drive like an ass. I saw plenty of AWD Subaru wagons on snow tires in the ditches up there.
I've got a grover/siper like that and love it. Has paid for itself many times over. Only trouble was when I grooved my Michelin XL's I had on Big Ugly the rubber was so hard that I ended up bending the heating element's central rod. Whoops.
Meanwhile, add siping to those mud tires. Their width is a problem for you but I ran mud tires the entire 5 winters I lived in Northern Michigan and with siping didn't regret it at all. The aggressive tread to dig through the drifts and the siping and soft rubber to stick to the road.*
*Provided you don't drive like an ass. I saw plenty of AWD Subaru wagons on snow tires in the ditches up there.
I've got a grover/siper like that and love it. Has paid for itself many times over. Only trouble was when I grooved my Michelin XL's I had on Big Ugly the rubber was so hard that I ended up bending the heating element's central rod. Whoops.
big pappa b
3/4 ton status
Good tips 
I will be driven on the street some but not a DD. I may end up driving an hour on the road for hunting trips. Everything else will be dirt, mud and snow
I will be driven on the street some but not a DD. I may end up driving an hour on the road for hunting trips. Everything else will be dirt, mud and snow
I will say I had a set of Interco TrXus MT's on my Ranger. 255/85R16's so basically a 33x10ishR16. Never siped them and they were possibly the best tire I've ever ran in the winter. STUCK to the road.
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This is very true.
Mud tires bring the suck on wet/slippery/icy if they don't have siping.
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My TSLs sucked big time on the snow/ice before I grooved and siped them. It was a hundred times better after I cut them a bit.
http://coloradok5.com/forums/showthread.php?t=245172&highlight=grooved
Z
82TexasBurban
Registered Member
I have 33 x 10.5 by 15's on mine. They are narrow but I like them alot. The braking seems pretty good except on ice. Other than that I think the narrowness and pressure of the burb help significantly. At one point I did park in a snow drift that was a solid sheet of ice underneath and she slowly slipped down the steep parking area.....sideways! this probably has nothing to do with the original intent of the thread.
Absolutely. MTs are death on ice.
