Yeh Yeh another tyre thread

[parasnoop67]

Well I was out on sunday with my club and we had 5 Patrols, 1 Ranger and my Rangie. There were 4 recoveries but no stuck Rangie. Haven't found the need for a rear locker, the traction controll does the job, and it easily keep up with the bunch, and some of them are twin locked.
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[Keithy P38]

Yeah it was probably mine you saw, I do a couple of runs up a pretty steep washed out hill with and without the locker. Worth it's weight in gold that thing!

[p38oncoils]

Sorry for the late reply guys

The green area on the picture is a rough outline of where the section of the sill trim that I cut out used to be. The broken red line is where I cut the plastic liner and then I riveted a section of a truck inner tube to the plastic liner over the exposed body of the vehicle in order to keep out mud, sand etc.



The picture below is taken from under the vehicle and shows the inside of the wheel well and the broken red line highlights where I cut the plastic liner. I think that the best way to work with and understand all of this is to print out the pictures and have them as a reference when you are looking at your own vehicle.



It doesn't show it well but the wheel in the picture below is positioned at the critical angle that would allow the wheel to rub on the sill trim. This picture is taken after the sill trim was modified and now there is enough clearance between the tyre and the body of the vehicle to eliminate any rubbing in this area. The tyres that I'm using are 285 75 16 Maxxis Bighorn MT-762 and the actual diameter of them is 32.8 inches or 834 mm.

Just a quick update on the above post...

I went on a trip to Sundown NP last weekend and we went through some very rough terrain. There was no rubbing of the tyres during the time I was off road but there was a bit of a touch a couple of times when I was driving along the road and hit some deep potholes at speed (around 40 - 50 km/hr). With the benefit in lift gained by going to 33 inch from 29 inch tyres I think I can live with that (I just need to drive a bit more carefully).