Preferred Tyre Width??

[hitbiga]

What would your preferred tyre width be for a 35" mud tyre with an aggressive tread pattern? Wide for a larger footprint or skinny to cut through the mud? Also what kind of truck and conditions do you drive in?

[luckyme]

depends on what truck, where, conditions, tread pattern etc... from my experience narrower better in the sticky clay stuff, but in a greener part you just dig through to china sure many will disagree

[callum007]

Your question is fairly open ended. I've always run narrow muds. I run 35x10.5 Silverstones at the moment, Simple physics will tell you that the wider the tyre the more force required to push it through mud, I cant ever recall a time that a wide as hell tyre would have given me floatation, except maybe in 3' of fresh snow.

[rokhound]

If you are playing a braided rivers with pea gravel some flotation will help, but you can always just air down and bag tyres out.
Tyre width is also directly tied to width of the rim you use. I run 15.5 wide tyres on an 8" rim and they don't look overly wide, yet I have seen 12.5 tyres on a 10" rim that made mine look really narrow.

As your first response stated, depends where you are driving as with some areas digging just isn't going to get you through. I'd be more inclined to look at how well your tyres self clean, thereby gaining you more traction.

[petefj40]

I find this one interesting.
Since I brought another 80, this one bog standard. As I'm putting 33 inch rubber on and a suspension lift it'll have to go through Cert.
The new truck was running 16 inch rims. So I was looking at buying another set of Bighorn Maxxis 33 inch 70 series @305's to go on some new 16X10 rims. I thought of trying my 15X10's off the old truck but as the callipers are bigger on the new one they won't fit, (hence why the stock rims are 16's).
Turns out. A 33' 70X305 isn't legal to run on a 16X10 inch rim! It would of failed Cert.
According to rules that are already there, the LTSA, Certifiers and people that issue WOF's can fail you if the, and I quote, "rim is outside the size recommended on the tire's specifications sheet".
Now I've heard this from Rick and he's heard it from the LTSA and Don. So don't shoot me. Give them a call and find out for yourself.
They say that all this has come about from drifting wanna bes and boy racers. They are the ones that are putting too narrower tires on way wider rims. You've seen them on the road. Well cops want them outlawed. So I see this as has having a big knock on affect.
It sucks.

[mudlva]

just seen the specs sheet off maxxis website

so the question is...who makes 9inch rims????
8's and 10's fine but 9's???

and it gets even better for some of ther other tyre sizes
eg 31x10.5x15= 8.5inch rim wtf...