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And the newer humvee are heavier due to the extra weight/armor

Thier front end gear seems to be re engineered/overbuilt to deal with oversized tires and heavier weight.

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This is a follow up post from the MV spotted thread. I got to follow up with my customer that has been fixing this for his customer. My Ability to visit and crawl around this rig is a result of good Karma I believe. This Elands were made from the early 1960's to the late 80's. This one was...

Good video. It works, and the active ingrediant ethiline glycol swells and conditions the butal rubber inner liner. I have used antifreeze several times to get bias tires that are heavily weather cracked and leaking to seal up by putting a bunch in the tire airing up and running. The glycol is...

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If its all the holes on a wheel and they dont line up in the same place its because the wheel halfs shifted when torqueing. It may be helpful to put your plate with a few bolts on hand tight to help keep alignment while torqueing the bolts.

Strange that they are only 2 hole that are off. I would imagine that they all would be off. Did you cross torque the bolts? On the clock 12-6-3-9 and so forth?

Air pressure is a weight speed time triangle. Any tire you can make it do something its not specifically for if you adjust tue others. 20psi is great for increased traction while offroading or city cruising. Slow speed short distance. However if you wanted to run it for 5hrs at 60mph you had...

Did you figure out what kind of valve? The only time you can run bias tubes and flaps in a radial tire is slow moving offroad use. Your ride does not count. Ive used the missmatched tubes and flaps on backhoes,tractors and forklifts none of which travel down the road. If your running G20 &your...

New stems/rubber grommets are cheep insurance against flats.

This is the right idea, can be done cheep since the outers and nuts are availabe at ANY truck shop, and you can likely pick up used ones for CHEEP.

I have not seen the Pics but likely the damage occurred from the lip of the wheel being forced onto the rubber being clamped down with binders and then bouncing its way along the road. I would bet most of the steel cords that came in contact are either exposed due to chafing and/or damaged.

The main reason being liabilit

For offroad tires goodyear /mich produce air/speed/load tables. I dont know of a manufacturer that produces those tables for dot rated tires.

I dont think what the driver was doing was Smart, Prudent, or Safe. I understand the point about the wheels, and you are correct. I only pointed out the example because i know of 1600R20's in industrial/ AG use on different wheels in the exact situation I described. Tires that come apart via...

So that most of you know the speed rating has more to do with the load capacity of the tire. The 4 things involved in affecting tire life are Load, Air pressure, Speed, & Duration. You can change any one of those variables by altering the others. For example a XZL mich 1600R20 max load is...

Soap with water 2" from the rim. Doing so will expediate the demounting process it you dont strike right at the tire wheel seam.

The harbor freight bar is junk. I owned one and it broke the first day of use. A duck bill tire hammer is a cheep investment if you own anything with tires. Using one is kinda like chopping wood. I think for a small investment you could buy all the bars you need and a hammer. The reality is that...