Had to get new tires

[djthumper]

Well after picking something up in on the shoulder of a tire I had to buy new tires today. They weren't the tires I wanted since I would have had to wait a few days and my spare wasn't much better than what was there. For now I have Yokohama Geolandar A/T S 265/70R16, I guess I will have to see how they work out. They are sitting fairly close to 31" tires and to the knuckle. I basically bought what I had to, I wanted wheels as well.

It couldn't have come at a worse time with the wife's vehicle down and working on it, plus I have a trip back to our scout camp in Utah this weekend. Have to drop the fuel tank on the van and hopefully have to just replace the fuel filter.

Before:


New Shoes:




I will have to get a better pic and angle of the knuckle

[Trail X]

Those look nice man. Should do you well on your desert trips.

Doesn't get much closer than that to the UBJ!

[djthumper]

If it were any closer I would definitely be doing some grinding. For now I will just keep an eye on it to see how it fairs. I was wanting to get the Falken Wild Peaks LT265/70R16 LoadRange D but it would have been a couple of more days to get them in. I was going to also get the Gunner 6 wheels but couldn't swing it for now. The backspacing on the Gunner's are 5.5" so I would have had .5" more of a gap.

Yokohama's have normally done me well in the past. The Goodyear's that came off were the original tires that came on there with just under 50k and 5+ years old in this desert. Since I bought the truck last year in March I have put on 19K so they did well even with the beatings I gave them.

[MrSmithsTB]

Nice choice. Those tires have decent on and off road manners and a great tread life.

[djthumper]

Thanks, I always try to keep up with tires and pick out good ones to do what I want them to. Tomorrow I have to go back, they screwed up and didn't put the best tire as the spare so I am getting the matching tire for a spare at 50% off.

[bartonmd]

Sucks, man! Been there, done that!

A couple years ago, I was rebuilding the front end of my Cummins (outer U-joints, bearings, brakes, etc. in the front D60), and was waiting on a regulator/rectifier to come in the mail for my bike, and my car popped a coolant fitting while I was at work... Had to get a ride home from my co-worker, and bring my dad's truck to work the next day with the car trailer, and drag my car home and fix it that night... Blew...

Mike

[fishsticks]

My wife's water pump blew up in her VW while I had the TB down for work. That was a long week of waiting for parts to come in and a longer night in the garage.