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kjfishman | Post subject: inflation Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 3:53 pm | ||
Joined: Sat Jul 09, 2005 6:06 pm Posts: 610 Location: somewhere in MO | If they are max 44 PSI tires try running them around 38 PSI. Or I have heard you can put chalk lines on the tire tread roll the vehicle if you see the chalk gone from outside you are under inflated and over in inflated if you see chalk gone from the center only. _________________ | ||
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Bonehead | Post subject: Re: inflation Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 4:34 pm | ||
Joined: Mon Aug 01, 2005 9:37 pm Posts: 153 Location: Vincennes,IN | kjfishman wrote: If they are max 44 PSI tires try running them around 38 PSI. Or I have heard you can put chalk lines on the tire tread roll the vehicle if you see the chalk gone from outside you are under inflated and over in inflated if you see chalk gone from the center only. Thats the best way to firgure proper pressure ,just may sure you drive in a straight line when you do it. _________________ | ||
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spoonplugger1 | Post subject: Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 12:59 am | ||
Joined: Sat Jul 09, 2005 9:22 pm Posts: 814 Location: Camas, WA | Good to see the price is dropping again. Owned a set of the original ATs back in the mid 80s, they lasted 65,000 miles on my Dodge D50 4X4. Ran them in everything from the dunes of Glamis, CA to the snows of Cheboygan, Michigan. Probably the best overall tire I ever owned. The next time I went to buy them I was quoted almost twice the price. _________________ | ||
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gundrted | Post subject: Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 10:12 am | |||
Joined: Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:26 pm Posts: 81 Location: Castle Rock, CO | spoonplugger1 wrote: Good to see the price is dropping again. Owned a set of the original ATs back in the mid 80s, they lasted 65,000 miles on my Dodge D50 4X4. Ran them in everything from the dunes of Glamis, CA to the snows of Cheboygan, Michigan. Probably the best overall tire I ever owned. The next time I went to buy them I was quoted almost twice the price. very cool. with a 5 wheel rotation i'm hoping to get about 70k+ from the tires. i'm very glad to hear they are good in the snow. i grew up in wisconsin and can drive just about anything in the snow but having good tires makes it so much nicer. about this chalk thing. do you just rub a chalk mark on the tire and drive slowly forward. this seems a little odd to me. i mean you would have to have your tires way over or under inflated for the chalk no to come off or am i thinking of this incorrectly | |||
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Bonehead | Post subject: Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 4:24 pm | ||
Joined: Mon Aug 01, 2005 9:37 pm Posts: 153 Location: Vincennes,IN | You put a 1" or 2" wide line all the way across the tread and drive straight for about a block then check it, see where its starting to wear off first. Adjust pressure as needed,reapply chalk and do it again. When it wear off evenly across the tread you are at the proper pressure for you set up. I always do a front and rear seperatly, they are always different. I keep the pressure the same side to side to reduce the liklyhood of the difference in pressure for side to side wanting to make the KJ pull one way or another. Sorry for the grammer but I've been awake for all of about 10min And also 1 or 2 pounds of pressure will make a difference in how it wears off, kinda hard to imagin that but it does work. It takes a bit of time to do this method but its worth it , your tirewear will thank you. _________________ | ||
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gundrted | Post subject: Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 4:34 pm | |||
Joined: Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:26 pm Posts: 81 Location: Castle Rock, CO | Bonehead wrote: You put a 1" or 2" wide line all the way across the tread and drive straight for about a block then check it, see where its starting to wear off first. Adjust pressure as needed,reapply chalk and do it again. When it wear off evenly across the tread you are at the proper pressure for you set up. I always do a front and rear seperatly, they are always different. I keep the pressure the same side to side to reduce the liklyhood of the difference in pressure for side to side wanting to make the KJ pull one way or another. Sorry for the grammer but I've been awake for all of about 10min interesting .... i have never heard this. i'll have to give it a shot. i just got my tires delivered at my house (per ups tracking) today. hopefully i'll have time to night to have them installed. i think i'll start out with 42/38/40 (front/rear/spare) and then try the chalk deal. the max psi on the tire is 44 | |||
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khokhonutt | Post subject: Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 7:58 pm | |||
Joined: Thu Sep 01, 2005 4:34 am Posts: 29 Location: Concord, NC | Bonehead wrote: You put a 1" or 2" wide line all the way across the tread and drive straight for about a block then check it, see where its starting to wear off first. Adjust pressure as needed,reapply chalk and do it again. When it wear off evenly across the tread you are at the proper pressure for you set up. I always do a front and rear seperatly, they are always different. I keep the pressure the same side to side to reduce the liklyhood of the difference in pressure for side to side wanting to make the KJ pull one way or another. Sorry for the grammer but I've been awake for all of about 10min And also 1 or 2 pounds of pressure will make a difference in how it wears off, kinda hard to imagin that but it does work. It takes a bit of time to do this method but its worth it , your tirewear will thank you. I've used this method on my TJs/YJs for years. This becomes more important as you go with oversized tires on a relatively light vehicle. On my TJ, I run 27lbs with 35" tires. Seems like low pressure, but I easily got 35k+ miles out of last set of BFG KMs and still had enough tread to sell them as good spares when I bought new ones. Jeff _________________ | |||
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gundrted | Post subject: Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 10:30 am | |||
Joined: Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:26 pm Posts: 81 Location: Castle Rock, CO | got the tires yesterday the tech said the tires looked sweet on the liberty. the only rubbing is when i crank it all the way to the lock. then there is a little rubbing on the lower a-arm but i'm not worried at all about it. there is one thing that does worry me. when turing the wheel there doesnt seem to be a lot of clearnce between the tire and the inner fendor well. have people had issues of the tire rubbing on the inner fender well and the wheel comes up. | |||
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