4'' lift with stock size tires
05-18-2019, 07:07 PM
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05-23-2019, 11:58 AM
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Well, yes a taller wider tire has a larger footprint (correctly, contact area), but has the complete opposite affect in mud.
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05-24-2019, 11:00 AM
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If that were the case every truck at the local mudhole would have small tires. I would like to see actual scientific proof of this.
05-24-2019, 12:05 PM
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If that were the case every truck at the local mudhole would have small tires. I would like to see actual scientific proof of this.
Them boys n' girls down at the mudhole be slaves to fashion.
From Post #16 in this thread:
The Model T ruled in those conditions, and with one-wheel-drive.
But, seriously...
Modern WRC all-wheel-drive rally cars use ultra-narrow (but studded) tires when they run winter stages covered with snow and ice. The narrower contact patch helps to prevent the car from floating on a looser, softer surface of snow and better make contact with harder ground underneath.
05-24-2019, 01:44 PM
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Ok here is the fat and the skinny!! 
..... for high horsepower mud racing a wide tire is better, get the tire revs up and stay on top of the mud! For most folks that wheel in the mud a tire over 12.50 wide is over kill, unless you have the power and gears to keep them spinning.
I remember back in the late 70's early 80's most everyone was running Q buckshots around here for all our 4 wheeling. I think they were around 9.50-10.0" wide and 36" tall.
..... for high horsepower mud racing a wide tire is better, get the tire revs up and stay on top of the mud! For most folks that wheel in the mud a tire over 12.50 wide is over kill, unless you have the power and gears to keep them spinning. I remember back in the late 70's early 80's most everyone was running Q buckshots around here for all our 4 wheeling. I think they were around 9.50-10.0" wide and 36" tall.
05-24-2019, 02:26 PM
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Then Gateway came out with the Gumbo Monster Mudders and Denman with the Ground Hawgs and the wider mud tire trend started to take root. Even when Interco came out with the first generation of Super Swampers they had skinny sizes. The 36x10.5 was a helluva mud tire.
05-24-2019, 02:58 PM
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That takes me back! Good old bias tires, you didn't even bother to TRY and balance them, you'd end up with 2 lbs of wheel weights and it still shook the **** out of you. 55mph on the highway was quite the adventure.
Then Gateway came out with the Gumbo Monster Mudders and Denman with the Ground Hawgs and the wider mud tire trend started to take root. Even when Interco came out with the first generation of Super Swampers they had skinny sizes. The 36x10.5 was a helluva mud tire.
Then Gateway came out with the Gumbo Monster Mudders and Denman with the Ground Hawgs and the wider mud tire trend started to take root. Even when Interco came out with the first generation of Super Swampers they had skinny sizes. The 36x10.5 was a helluva mud tire.
05-24-2019, 05:45 PM
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That takes me back!
That takes me back!
Feller that used Bad Habit as his handle taught me how to drive over the Siskiyous without using a Jake almost 32 years ago. He chainsmoked Winstons and I had just quit a 1-1/2 pack per day Marlboro habit.
That you, Allan?
05-24-2019, 07:47 PM
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