spenat
Well-Known Member
- First Name
- nat
- Joined
- May 1, 2018
- Threads
- 23
- Messages
- 173
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- Location
- manhattan beach
- Vehicle(s)
- 2019 sting grey JLUR
great looking rigRan 12 psi for the last 3 days on the Rubicon without an issue. Only an idiot would think it's an actual beadlock running a 13.50" on a 7.5" wheel, and run low single digit psi. Having run a 14.50 pitbull on a 10" wide wheel and a 12.50 or 13.50 on a narrow factory wheel through the same trails, I can guarantee you from personal experience that the wider wheel will lead to burping air when a rock pushes against the sidewall 100% of the time. Burping air leads to further lowering of the pressure in the tire and eventually de-beading if you don't stop to add air. This is both logic and experience based. Obviously a wide double beadlock will retain the beads at much lower psi than any other setup. Conversely, if you are going to run a non-beadlock wheel, I guarantee a narrower wheel will hold a bead and/or air pressure better than a wide wheel every time. Full force against the sidewall pushing in to an obstacle, and even at 12 psi the tires didn't burp, let alone debead an a 38x13.50 tire on factory wheels. Take the same tire on a 9.5-10" wide wheel in the same condition and see what happens? Been there done that. The 13.50 would flatten out to 20" wide at 12 psi under full load coming down an obstacle, but keep telling me it doesn't work. If you want to spend 2500 on beadlocks, you better significantly outperform my stock junk. Meanwhile we just ran the entire Rubicon trail alone. 0 winching. 0 spotting. Used the front locker 3 times and both lockers once. The only optional obstacle we didn't run was soup bowl as it is far too early into the trail coming in from loon lake to push it when wheeling alone in the wife's daily driver. Keep telling me what you've heard and I'll keep doing what I've done for 25 years thanks.
whats your setup? ie spacers? lift etc.
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