Super Swampers in snow.

[blazinzuk]

Swampers live by the same rules as other tires do skinny on ice = good fat= bad.

Swampers on ice pretty much suck siping helps a ton. Snow they are good in for the most part but icy roads any mud tire kind of sucks

 

[Carcinogen]

Swampers live by the same rules as other tires do skinny on ice = good fat= bad.

I always thought it was the opposite?

Skinny pizza cutters to get through deep snow to find traction on solid ground or wide tires for the surface area to float above the snow.

On ice isnt it mostly about surface area and biting edges?

 

[COCHEV]

skinny= all the weight of your rig on a narrow surface area, increasing the pressure per square inch = more traction/less likely to slide. wide tire, exact opposite.

Thats why you can skate better on ice skates vs snow boots...

 

[The Griff]

Well heres my dumbest moment of the year so far, I figured out why the Blazer wouldn't start, its out of gas.

 

[k5ryder]

Can we get some pictures of some super swampers in some snow?

 

[1BEATK5]

If the freeking snow would freeking show the freek up.


I would post some.

 

[The Griff]

Well this was yesterday, sitting there out of gas. Unfortunately We plowed the front yard, so not a whole lot of snow

 

[colbystephens]

Can we get some pictures of some super swampers in some snow?

Some of my favorite snow pics with my 38" Super Swamper SS tires. Green truck is my previous '73 Blazer. Blue/White truck is my current '90 K5.


garson-6 by colbyjstephens, on Flickr


Rigs Submission-1 by colbyjstephens, on Flickr


Rigs Submission-2 by colbyjstephens, on Flickr


IMG_0992 by colbyjstephens, on Flickr


73 Blazer-1 by colbyjstephens, on Flickr


IMG_1921 by colbyjstephens, on Flickr


P1020338 by colbyjstephens, on Flickr

 

[k5ryder]

Well this was yesterday, sitting there out of gas. Unfortunately We plowed the front yard, so not a whole lot of snow

What size lift and tires are you running?

 

[The Griff]

No lift and 31X10.50R15's

Still has the factory rake to it.

 

[k5ryder]

No lift and 31X10.50R15's

Still has the factory rake to it.

She looks good. I thought maybe it was a 2" lift with 33s. I'm still stock as well but on 31" michelins. I'm having a hard time deciding between a 2" lift with 33s or a 4" with 35s

 

[The Griff]

Thanks

I had 33X9.50 Dean SXT MT's on it before, they cleared fine and would go anywhere but just too narrow for a fullsize truck, atleast on the highway. So I traded a guy even for these super swampers, theyre not as tall, but it feels great on the highway with wider tires.

I want to do a 2 inch lift, some point in the future, get some wider wheels, (rallys, aftermarket) Both basically just for aesthetics, and keep my 31X10.50 SS's

 

[82355]

Find a set of M1009 CUCV wheels. Then you can keep the hub caps, and have an 8" wide wheel.

Martin

 

[xenomarine]

All I have is a screencap of my Instagram page, been through several phones since that picture. This is with 39.5 tsl's.

 

[colbystephens]

I need snow like that!

 

[AJMBLAZER]

Trxus M/Ts are the best offroad tire I have ever used in the snow

Now I wish I had a rear axle in mine




Ive not gotten to test mine in snow.

This. It's not the Swamper tread pattern so much as the lack of siping and the hardness of the rubber combined with radial vs bias ply.
I had a set of 255/85R16 TrXus MY's on my '96 Ranger and that thing could go anywhere in two Northern Michigan winters. Softer rubber, good factory siping, and the MT tread ment it could dig and stick in the winter.

Swampers live by the same rules as other tires do skinny on ice = good fat= bad.

Swampers on ice pretty much suck siping helps a ton. Snow they are good in for the most part but icy roads any mud tire kind of sucks

Yep. Siping is key. I always ran mud tires on my 4x4's and SUV's up there in the winters. If the tires didn't have enough siping I'd add more. Always worked for me.

 

[Blue85]

I had some scary winter experiences on Pro-Comp MTs. They were like teflon on icy roads. Had them siped by a machine and then they were pretty much useable.

Even better was the "green diamond" D-Mud from Tread-Wright. The Dunlop Mud Rover-copy tread worked well off road, and the carbide bits in the rubber made them grip like Blizzaks on ice. That was probably the only true all-year tire I ever had on the truck.

 

[AJMBLAZER]

I had sime of the Green Diamond equipped muds on a SUV the ex had. Worked great the winter she had them. She rolled it early the next winter so they went bye bye.