Oh yeah! factory dinky donks are almost throw away tires! I put them up on craigslist for $100 for the set! going Saturday to a friends farm in Eastern Colorado to get some gentle hours on her and play in the mud if someone has been irrigating! Wont take it into the high country for awhile as it is too hard on a new motor to punish it where there is little air!
26x9x12 front, 26x10x12 rear. I was concerned about going over 50" wide but both front and rear are still short of 49" with these new tires. $470 shipped to my door off eBay!
That is the ride we were going to do in July but the snow had different plans.
We were up there August 26th this year. It was clear all the way but lots of water on the trail. We started in St Elmo and even took the "hard route" coming back up from Tin Cup. We started early in the morning and had the trail to ourselves, by afternoon there was a bit too much traffic. We normally stick to 50" trails to avoid the rental jeeps and speed junkies in there 60 mph buggies.
If that hard trail is the one that I have been on I don't think hard is the word for it. I would say a b**** of a trail is more fitting. We found a trail north out of Taylor Park that no one had been on in a long time and I now see why. It scared me and I am fearless.
Welcome to the forum! That is outer limits cool! Did you fab all of that? How fast does the machine go on the tracks? The enclosure looks amazing. I noticed the diamond plate on the trailer too. You do that too?
I've been real curious about the track systems, do they kill the power, or is it still able to hit the rev limiter easily in 5th gear? Steering heavy? It looks like it could climb a tree, or pull one down for that matter!
5th gear isn't an issue for power unless you're in any amount of snow or mud. Much harder to steer as I don't have power steering. It's not so bad when you're moving but is still a little more difficult. It has all kinds of power with the tracks on but it is a very rough ride on hard ground. It also is much less fuel efficient when using them!!
I have power steering and suspension mod, and I'm going to add an auto-locker to the front diff. I don't imagine you loose traction with the tracks very often, so the auto-locker might not play nice with the tracks. I've wanted to do some snow trips, and thought the tracks might be the answer- but that's a lot of money to play a couple times a year in the snow.... I live in Southern MD, so I'm hard pressed to come up with a good excuse to buy the track system. Hey, a dozer blade to grade the driveway! Just thinking out loud now.....
