Mike Melton reviews a mud tire with chunky tread blocks and stone ejectors. Owners report wildly different durability, from short life to 50-60k miles depending on driving. He demonstrates road-force balancing, measuring eight pounds of force on this one.
Only eight pounds of force.
People got a love and hate relationship with these tires right here. Some people say, man, these things don't last for nothing. Some people say they got 50, 60,000 out of them. So all that depends on how you. How you drive that truck, what you drive it on. Now, to be a big old aggressive mud tire, the sidewalls ain't too aggressive, but they still look pretty good thing got some big old chunky tread blocks on there. Now, I know what you're gonna ask. How quiet are they? Now, if you're running the tire like this, you don't really care how quiet the tires are. But one thing, with mud tires or any other tire, if you were hauling weight, they will chop up if you don't keep everything rotated right. Now, these things usually balance out pretty good about every set we've done. Ain't never had an issue at them at all. So these right here shouldn't be no different. It's got minimal siphon inside those trail blocks to help a little bit of wet traction. Now, see these little ridges right here, what these are? They're stone ejectors. Help them get them stones out of there, get that traction on when you're off road. Now, let's go ahead and road force these things out. All right, let's go ahead and balance it out. Before we do that, you know we got to take that damn sticker off, people. I got it rolling. Got the roller on. All right, roller coming off. Where we at? We have four, three quarters here, three and a quarter there. Only eight pounds of force.
