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Yukon Territories (now just "Yukon" as of 2003). He's Canadian....
That's funny. The same thing happened to me. I drove 600 miles back home with the truck. When I checked the tires a few days later I had ~20 psi in both fronts, ~25 psi in both sets of outer rears, & ~ 12-15 psi in both sets of inner rears, both sides. How I made it 600+ miles without a tire failure is beyond me.
I'm building pretty much exactly what you're talking about. I've put about 4000 miles on it so far, and all I've done so far is add a muffler. I've been too busy with the motorhome conversion to do much more, but I'm planning to make Mah Deuce a lot more civilized. I just finished singling it out, and I'm going to mount a set of radial 11:00R20 tires (Firestone T831's) as soon as I figure out what wheels I'm going to use. I also found an LDS engine that I'm going to be picking up later this month, although my LDT runs real strong and I've had no problem maintaining 55+mph. AC is in-the-works (reddot) and I'm planning on insulating the cab with some type of sound-deadening material whenever I get around to it. Replacing the seats with some low-back baja-type suspension seats is a lot higher on my priority list though. Those stock seats are brutal! What else? Hmmm. Lockouts on as many axles as I can afford. That's about all I can think of right now.
Would switching out the 30-40 year old innertubes make them any safer?
Probably not.
one thing i want to point out is that running 69 with 15.5 is the same to the drivetrain as running 56 with 9.00s. the only difference is the brakes have more leverage working against them ,but the drive line rpms are the same .yes the 15.5s are only rated for 50 but they are rated for 50 at max load which is 14500lbs per tire. and take that times 6 - 87000lbs and since a deuce is only rated for 23000 there would only be a tire issue bue to heat if you were only running one tire on the whole truck. so you arent gonna have tire issues due to heat at high speeds. the brakes dont see any higher rpms than they do with stock tires . if you decide you dont want to go faster than 56 the bigger tires will give you less rpm and longer life of the engine also.you will get better mpg with bigger tires on the highway . i get 14mpg with my m35a2c pulling an m105 ..can you make these trucks feel like a caddy probably not can you make them more drivable on the highway yes.i drove mine 26hrs straight .i needed two days to recover .i would look into a air ride seat for the drive side.i also put a one piece heavy rubber floor mat in there to cut down the noise and heat. insulating the firewall would help out greatly to but dont use anything that holds water and leave a gap so it can dry out to.
Are you sure about that? While I have no first hand experience with 15.5s, that's a whole lot of weight per tire. If you're figures are right I could use a bunch of them in a civilain application (heavy haul trucks).
