More 33x10.50 bfg mt (1 Viewer)

[Deathbox]

This long saga started almost 2 months ago when I finally talked my wife into getting some new tires for the cruiser. With my birthday, christmas, and college graduation coming up I was sure I would have a little extra spending money. researched threads for months and decided on a set of BFG mud terrains 33x10.50 for my stock steelies. After placing an order at Costco for 4 tires I was told that they would arrive in 3 to 5 days. Naturally I started calling after the 2nd day to see if the tire were in yet. after a week of this I gave up and figured that they would actually call me when the came in. Fast forward a month and I still haven't heard from them. After calling them they said that they had 3 tires and didn't know were that last one was. Then they called me a few minutes later and told me that UPS had lost one and they would be sending a new one. Finally that had them all in on christmas eve but with family in town and us going on vacation I couldn't get them mounted till after new years. When I went down to have them installed they said they wouldn't mount them due to the narrow width of the rims then they gave a speech about how they will wear uneven or something, at this point I wasn't listening and I was soon out the door and on my way to a reputable dealer who said they would mount them, Tim at perfection tire was really nice and didn't give me crap about buy the tires somewhere else. The moral of the story is buy from people who know what they are doing, not Costco so you can save 40 bucks.

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new tires

 

[singletrackjunkie]

It's amazing how much better your cruise looks with the new shoes. I plan on making the move to 33x10.5's when my current 31's where down some more. Oh yeah, welcome to mud

 

[Jwood]

The reason why Costco wont mount the tires is because they got sued a while back when someone got in a car accident and went on a suing escopade. Moral of the story, people ruin it for other people haha

 

[77HesterSue]

Looks great. Do you have a lift on your 40?

 

[MarcoPolo]

Much better looking


Amazing how the tires also attracted the top too


BTW... your tongues hangin out the door.. looks like it's in the final stages of gangrene already


..and welcome to MUD

 

[Deathbox]

77HesterSue Looks great. Do you have a lift on your 40?

There are some crazy long shackles on this thing. I am not sure if they put on different springs and longer shackles or what.

 

[Eshu Elegua]

great change, i will go to sell my (5) 33x12.50x15 M/T Bf to get 4 of those ones..like the look

 

[Deathbox]

What is the lowest psi you guys run with the same wheel tire combo?

 

[mr_manny]

when I was running 10.5's on stockers:
off-road 14psi
on-road 32psi

 

[saltrig]

Do those 10.5's tuck in or will they rub on a stock fender/lift. I'd really like to run 33's someday on stock rims but I feel the 9.5's are just a tad narrow for all my soft-sand wheelin.

Nice looking wheels

 

[alkarich]

They should be just inside the body lines.

 

[slickrock]

This long saga started almost 2 months ago when I finally talked my wife into getting some new tires for the cruiser. With my birthday, christmas, and college graduation coming up I was sure I would have a little extra spending money. researched threads for months and decided on a set of BFG mud terrains 33x10.50 for my stock steelies. After placing an order at Costco for 4 tires I was told that they would arrive in 3 to 5 days. Naturally I started calling after the 2nd day to see if the tire were in yet. after a week of this I gave up and figured that they would actually call me when the came in. Fast forward a month and I still haven't heard from them. After calling them they said that they had 3 tires and didn't know were that last one was. Then they called me a few minutes later and told me that UPS had lost one and they would be sending a new one. Finally that had them all in on christmas eve but with family in town and us going on vacation I couldn't get them mounted till after new years. When I went down to have them installed they said they wouldn't mount them due to the narrow width of the rims then they gave a speech about how they will wear uneven or something, at this point I wasn't listening and I was soon out the door and on my way to a reputable dealer who said they would mount them, Tim at perfection tire was really nice and didn't give me crap about buy the tires somewhere else. The moral of the story is buy from people who know what they are doing, not Costco so you can save 40 bucks.

old photo

new tires

After looking at how much weight your BFGs took (as did mine) what happened to them being an easy tire for balancing? One of mine took 6 ounces. In the past, I have had them on different rigs and they only took a little bit to balance. My wheels are round.

How much weight did your tires take? ANyhing excessive?

 

[Deathbox]

I noticed that too, Ill have to take a look in the daylight to see how much they actually took. On the other side it looks like they added more weight then the drivers side. I wonder if they will balance any better after I get the wheels blasted and powder coated.

 

[bakocruiser]

The tires will definitely rub at full deflection. Especially on the drag link. I'm going Sag and 4" to negate the problem. Love the look of the "tall skinnies" though.

 

[DSRTRDR]

correct, they "chuck-chuck-chuck" when fully turned to the driver's side - even with a 4" lift

but they wheel good (I had MTs, then ATs and now again MTs - the ATs tended to squeal a lot in Moab)

 

[71 redwood]

I Costco is lame when comes to automotive...my opinoin.. the tires look good an run good,

 

[1979fj40]

I noticed that too, Ill have to take a look in the daylight to see how much they actually took. On the other side it looks like they added more weight then the drivers side. I wonder if they will balance any better after I get the wheels blasted and powder coated.

Make them break them down again and spin them 180 on the rim and rebalance them. 90% of the time this cuts the weights needed less than half.

 

[Copenhagen1]

I bought a set of these exact tires used off of craigslist. They still had a lot of tread on them but were battle scarred a little from a couple trips to Katemcy.

I had them mounted on stock steelies like yours and had it done by Walmart because I didn't want to wait till Monday. Walmart mounted them but told me they didn't have the correct "center hub thing" to balance them on their machine. I told them to leave it and I would get them done later. I have only driven it about 50 or 60 miles on the highway because I am battling some fuel issues, but I have decided not to balance the tires. They are about as close as I can get.

I was pretty impressed with BFG MT's.


Copenhagen1

 

[slickrock]

Make them break them down again and spin them 180 on the rim and rebalance them. 90% of the time this cuts the weights needed less than half.

I mounted my MTs myself (on a professional balancer) and spun them 180, 90 , and 45 and stll had lots of weight. Even took them toa larger tire only shop with good rep. and still took a lot of weight. Maybe they started to crank them out faster with less quality control when BFG came out with the new mud treads?

 

[BAMA]

My experience with my early model steel wheels is that the rivited wheels do not run true (they are out of round, the tires may be OK but the wheels are out of round, so it throws the whole wheel/tire assembly out of balance) so my tire dealer suggested "balancing sand" it is some type of silica sand mostly used in 18 wheeler tires it's in an inflated plastic bag, they just threw it in the tire before it was mounted on the wheel. As the tire makes its first few rotations the plastic bag breaks and the sand is loose in the tire. From there I don't know exactly how it works (dynamic balancing?) but I can say that it really does work, and works well. It is like they are not balanced until about 30 mph, but from 35-75mph they area as smooth as it gets. I had it in 34x10.50 bias ply Super Swamper TSL's on rivited steel wheels on my 71 fj40, not a single weight on the outside of the tire.