I'm looking to Alaska for work right now. So I got to figure out how to winterize the jeep. No, I'm not looking forward to running on the ice road, but instead looking at a fair weather driving position up there. But you have to live up there year round. I'll be taking the yurt up.
The Pic is from http://www.myspace.com/showmemudders
I got the link from http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/JEEP-DUECE-AND-HALF-
Now thats my kind of quad. A Military deuce and a half bobbed to 4x4 with 5 ton axles...I want one with smaller tires and a camper on the back...Bug out vehicle bar none....Traffic aint no worry...with his tires ya just drive right over anything in the way...Who needs a stinking road.
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Now THAT'S a truck! A big, hairy truck! Camper, hell yes! Smaller tires? Nawwww.... Those are just right for runnin' down Priuses, heh heh heh. Al Whore's worst nightmare.... Yup, that's what I'd name it!
Good luck to ya on your job search. As far as winterizing, I reckon all ya need is a block heater? I dunno, don't have to worry 'bout such things here in sunny South Texas. Though it did freeze once, back in '89! It even snowed once in '02! Heh heh heh....
"Traffic aint no worry...with his tires ya just drive right over anything in the way..."
The question is: How do you fix a flat tire on that thing?
I don't see a spare and just dealing with the weight of one of those tires/wheels when it is off the vehicle is a concern, especially on soft or muddy ground.
It would take more than one can of Fix-A-Flat to fix one of those up.
Ya fill em with low density foam and forget about flats...I wouldn't us mud tires like that...I'd put some 16r20's
super singles on it....good on or off the road.
Correction...I wouldn't use mud tires like that..It seems my keyboard is dropping letters.
Glück in Alaska!
There is an outfit in Arkansas that makes those trucks. They only cost a few thousand. I forget the link but it is a surplus store. They have the old diesel 4x4 GMC 1980s full size Army pickup trucks also.
I'm looking to Alaska for work right now.
Yup, I hear they got an opening in the governor's mansion.
I'm happy that Palin vacated the mansion...What scares me is where she might turn up next...
Ya'll be advised I really don't like the repugnician party. Then I'm none to fond of most democraps either...
Dragon, I want that foam fill for my tractor tires!!
There's a product around for on road tires, But I don't know where to get it.... Some of those off-roaders are using the low density floam from home depot...it takes more than a couple of cans for his tires in the picture....I use "FLOAM" for my off road tires for the jeep...Drove em home one weekend from Ohio when I was in a hurry to get back and didn't have time for a tire change to road tires...they killed my highway mileage but held up well...
Warning to change the tires after foaming them, you're gonna have to cut them off...Slime works good for preventing flats. But it's a mess when ya change the tires.
I've been nearly 10 years on the original tires on my tractor. I've just had one flat on the front and none on the rear. They all still have plenty of tread so I guess I'm not too worried about wearing them out and having to change them. I'm a lot more worried about getting a flat on the back from a black locust or Bois D'arc thorn and having to pay big bucks to have someone come out and fix it.
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