Brandon's Arles Blue TJ
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Interesting. They never came up when I was searching. But they reference Jack Wagon Overland, but they were more expensive than Northridge. I at least trust Northridge and can drive up there if I absolutely have to if something goes wrong.
I don't know if yours take a specific type/style of o-ring or not or if you could use ones like what I got for the Stazworks rims.
Not sure, I could see them causing problems if they were slightly different thickness or diameter. They fit into a little groove and then pinch. It's one of those spots where I figure even if I could save a couple bucks it may not be worth it.
On another note, I sold the old wheels and the Falkens. I'm now into the Yokohama's and Rock Monsters for not much more than the tires would cost new. They went to a kid in a $500 XJ that's going to wheel the crap out of them, so that's always good!
Congrats on the sale & cool deal. I'm going to keep my eyes open for a set of them in my BP.
Yea, I think I'd just buy them from Northridge. On my Stazworks they have a similar groove but they just take a no name 0-ring. I'd bought 8 the last time I got some so I'd have spares.
I'll try and clean the old ones up and see if they can spring back to life at all. They may have just been flat from being squished for 6 years (based on the tire date code). But I'll add some spares down the road for sure. Don't want to find myself in Moab or somewhere needing to replace one and not have it handy. Planning to pick up some extra hardware as well. You can buy replacement short and long studs as well as the nuts which are unique. They're supposed to act as a locknut but I'm sure in a pinch any nut with the right thread pitch and diameter would get you home. It would be interesting to know how many you would have to lose before it truly became unsafe. I imagine there's some level of redundancy built in. And that would obviously depend on where they were missing from. If you lose three in a row maybe that's the end. But if it was three scattered, would it hold? But I certainly wouldn't want to have to find out.
I'd have enough nuts to do one rim. It's what I want to carry for my beadlocks. 32 inserts & 32 screws... They's be in the trailer box not in the Jeep. I'd only carry 1/2 dozen in it.
Don't use RTV on your Hutchinsons. It's a pain in the ass to remove and the next owner will hate you! I'm 2.5 wheels in and it's about 45 minutes per wheel just to clean the RTV and wheel weights off. As they get cleaned they're getting stacked in the bathroom to go in the tub and be scrubbed clean next. At least I'm home alone and able to just sit in the living room on some towels and cardboard watching YouTube wheeling videos.
Does the wife know about this? Or your son? He's probably not going to be as upset as the wife...
They knew I was going to do it and got home about the time I took the picture! lol my wife just laughed and my son thought it was funny that they were in the bath. Unfortunately he tried to lean against two stacked wheels before we could stop him and bonked his temple on one
poor guy is going to have a good bump!Got them all cleaned, now just waiting on new o-rings. One of them had a pretty good dent on the inside lip I hadn't noticed before. Probably isn't as noticeable with a tire on it but the dent doesn't seem to extend down to the bead mount surface. And they were all holding air fine, so it must be superficial.
Installed my Flux steering box skid. I made a spacer for the steering box mount side thinking that was the only spot it needed to be spaced, but then it needs to be spaced down too. It's really close to the box still. For now I just stacked some washers. Jigsaw wasn't cutting the aluminum very well and I couldn't find my other blades. It'll ride for now but I want to make a solid spacer the goes all the way across.
And apparently the studs on the wheels are 1/2-20. Some 1/2-20 flange nuts would would be handy as emergency spares, or throw a washer under a spare lug nut. I only have a couple spare lug nuts and need to pick up a couple more. Just trying to think through some of the "smaller" unfortunate scenarios that don't immediately come to mind like u-joints, axle shafts, flats, etc.
It's always a battle of what to carry and how much is too much.... And it never fails that one item you don't have is what will fail/break/fall off.... Don't ask me how I know.
I always wonder where the tipping point is of where you're breaking shit because you're carrying so much weight in spare shit
That's where my thought of a washer under a lug nut comes from. While nuts don't weigh that much, if lug nuts can serve multiple purposes, it cuts down a little. And again, I'm just thinking "get off the trail" type of repair.
I've definitely watched some guys' videos where it certainly seems like they would've faired better without so much crap.
But then this come back to the how much is too much? Is 200-300 lbs too much?
Yes carrying items that serve multiple functions is the smarter play.
Unfortunately nobody could ever put a number on it specifically. If you're talking a 300lb load out altogether, probably not. But if it's 300lbs of parts and tools alone before driver weight, passengers, water, camping gear, food, armor, steel winch cable, etc? Probably.
But again, it's going to be build dependent as well. You have air suspension and can adjust your ride height for weight. You also weigh less (about 16-18% less according to Google)
. Stronger axles and such all lead to being able to withstand more. I have a Dana 30 front and generally will have a front passenger and a child (with rear seat plus booster). I have to factor that weight into what all I can carry. We all just have to find that balance for ourselves.
300lbs total? You'd have to be one skinny dude & have a skinny partner & then some really light tools & parts to keep it under 300lbs... But even talking about 300lbs in parts and tools could be a tall order depending on what you carry.
But again, it's going to be build dependent as well. You have air suspension and can adjust your ride height for weight. You also weigh less (about 16-18% less according to Google)
Stronger axles weigh more too.... But yes it's always a tradeoff in what you carry based on your needs and available space... Even being alone I never seem to have the space for everything I might want to carry.
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