pulltabmike

I like to keep busy........
Besides, with all of the favors I've been doing, gonna call them all in July when I go ballistic on the ZJ. Front, rear swap, another 2" of lift and longarms

kuzican

not a bad way to think, and if you go up to jarrettsville I could help you a good bit.

pulltabmike

It's gonna happen, probably in Sept. Gonna start looking for a CJ-2A once I get there.....
Gotta get some grinding wheels later today, will weld uprights this evening and hopefully get the top rails on your rack tomorrow

kuzican

well let me know, I got a trailer, and can help ya out if I can. as for the rack coolio

mickey_00xj

I thought about the beads, but was hoping for something more accurate. And from what I've been reading on the reviews of the creepy's, they behave very well on the road. The worst case I've seen for balance was 23oz on one tire, the rest seem to be around the 12-16 range. It's just hard to beat that traction in a radial setup, but I don't have the desire to make my Jeep a strictly trail rig yet either.

Oh, and in the one review they ran 400 miles of highway with them at 70+ mph and never had an issue. Just sayin

jimmy21669

Well...catching up took forever.

Just wanted to comment on the bias ply balancing. I ran 34x10.5x15 Bias Ply LTB's on my last XJ. I ran them 70 MPH on the highway on the way to events. I used Airsoft BB's to balance them.

DO NOT try to weight balance bias ply tires...it is senseless. A) You will NEVER zero them, B) even if you find a way to zero them, it will change the next time you drive it. Mine had NO weights on them and rode good once they warmed up.

One word of caution...DO NOT run bias ply tires on a daily driver, and if being used on an offroad truck, store the tires flat in between uses. If you leave them sitting on a truck, they will get flat spots in them.

Also, they will ALWAYS be rough the first 10-15 minutes of driving. The tires need to warm up to get into round.

This is my $.02 from real world experience.

All that being said, mine were for offroad only use and I LOVED them!

jimmy21669

Also, Bias ply tires are generally soft and will not wear well on the road.

mickey_00xj

Yeah I know But I love the traction they offer. If Maxxis would come out with a creepy in a radial I would jump all over it. I love my Bighorns, haven't let me down yet and I've put them through quite a bit. The thing I don't like about them is they look like every other generic M/t on the market, and the trepadors are directional so those are out as well. I like to be able to rotate my tires regularly, without remounting

dukie564

send a message to my buddy "ktmracer419". He runs the the blue label crawlers and probably has more road time with them than anyone else - i think be took a 10,000 mile trip across the country with them, and drives to the trails.

cgarrett

The customer service is terrible and it may take forever to get it but their products are very good. My brother has his hydraulic assistance mounted to his ballistic diff cover

mickey_00xj

Mounted to the cover? Interesting...... make for a pain in the *** to do anything inside the diff

I'll send him a message, thanks dukie

cgarrett

Not really, one bolt removes the hydraulic ram from the cover

mickey_00xj

Not too bad then. I'll have to look it up as I was thinking of going hydro assist once I get the 35's on and PSC is kinda pricey. Thanks

cgarrett

He did it for $140 through surplus center

dukie564

you can use any kind of ram you want. The only thing I recommend while you're looking at rams is stay 1.5" diameter or below if you plan on street driving. Anything bigger is not going to be responsive enough for navigating traffic at speed.

Check this link out for kits as well as lots more info
http://www.wheelingarizona.com/tech/...cRamAssist.htm