Preventing fishtailing...
10-26-2009, 03:46 PM
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welded rear and bald 31" AT's and no trouble, unless I give'r some skinny.. however my 4runner has more weight over the rear than a pickup would..
When snow starts falling, I'm gonna throw some new tires on the back, and take it easy in the corners..
gotta first find out how this homebrew spool treats me.. might need some skinny to get the rear end to come around the corner, might have the tendacy to push and understeer..
it's not my fault that throttle induced oversteer corrects understeer
Gotta love Canadian winters..
When snow starts falling, I'm gonna throw some new tires on the back, and take it easy in the corners..
gotta first find out how this homebrew spool treats me.. might need some skinny to get the rear end to come around the corner, might have the tendacy to push and understeer..
it's not my fault that throttle induced oversteer corrects understeer
Gotta love Canadian winters..
Last edited by blue_CA_yota; 10-26-2009 at 03:51 PM.
10-26-2009, 03:54 PM
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it's allll in your tires buddy!..my '86 used to spin the tires at even the slightest bit of rain and fishtail all the time with my 31" TSL swampers on it..
got my 31" PC Xterrains (about 90% tread..bought em for $350 with no holes or anything) and i dont spin anymore..unless i want it to of course..lmao..
believe me..it'll light em wet or dry..hahahaha
got my 31" PC Xterrains (about 90% tread..bought em for $350 with no holes or anything) and i dont spin anymore..unless i want it to of course..lmao..
believe me..it'll light em wet or dry..hahahaha
10-26-2009, 04:58 PM
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I have considered this... the rear end does spin quite a bit. When the roads are wet, I have to be pretty careful not to peel out at stop lights and stop signs almost 50% of the time. And I definitely do not have a lead foot.
My tires have 80%+ tread on them: Toyo 30x10.5 mud terrains.
The truck has (so far that I've discovered) Downey 26mm t-bars, Downey AAL, and a Downey IFS strut... I've read that you can jack up the rear of the truck and figure out if I've got a locker. Any easier method?
10-26-2009, 05:00 PM
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go to a field, grass or dirt, and try n do a donut...i know it sounds kinda dumb but if she spins like a top...locker if it goes in a big circle spinning one tire...yeah no locker
10-26-2009, 05:02 PM
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Learn to like it
Nothing looks cooler then a nice yota pitched sideways round a corner I can't believe you are having so much trouble with an open diff...
get a few used 33x12.50+ tires with steelies and throw em in the bed..
Nothing looks cooler then a nice yota pitched sideways round a corner
I can't believe you are having so much trouble with an open diff... get a few used 33x12.50+ tires with steelies and throw em in the bed..
10-26-2009, 05:36 PM
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I'll sell you one of the big limestone rocks out of my fields as a winter weight for your bed. All you gotta do is dig it out of the field and hope it's not bigger than the truck (a few of them are). They weigh anywhere between 50 and 1000kg. I've been using a 200kg one on my light as hell wooden bed (40kg of pine and thin angle iron) for extra traction until I get around to building my new flatbed, doesn't even need to be tied down.
10-26-2009, 07:53 PM
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I know how you feel man, I used to go through intersections with ruts in them from the cross traffic and fishtail just from the little hop they caused. You cannot beat a set of high rated wet traction tires > tirerack.com
10-26-2009, 08:52 PM
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ORRR.... you could just put a floor jack under the 3rd, jack it up so both tires are off the ground put the truck in N and then rotate one by hand... if the other one rotates with it in the same direction then you have a locker... much easier and mroe legal that way..
10-26-2009, 10:44 PM
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Larger tires arent really going to keep you from fishtailing. If they are wider, they are going to make you fishtail more. skinnier tires are better for slippery conditions.
10-27-2009, 12:16 AM
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Yeah, I just need to learn to drive. This is my first pickup and I'm learning as I go, the result being threads like this (and my build thread). Thanks for all the input everyone.
10-27-2009, 02:18 PM
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