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Originally Posted by TheWraith
I've been wondering...
What tire pressure you guys run while on dirt and climbing shelves and rocks...
Please post make and tire size on your rig. If you know the weight of your rig; pls post as well
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Im used to running low on my other rig with beadlocks. 4runner was built for over landing and medium trails...
I have 285/75/17 KO2s. I got them because that seemed to be the most popular choice from the 5th gen 4runner community.
Sitting on a 17x9 wheel as it was tough to find anything good looking with a slimmer width.
I run 30 psi on road. Seems to be sweet spot for comfort with my heavy rig.
18 psi on fire roads and sand sucked (tried it once). I air down to 15 psi. On overnights it will be down to 12 psi until tires warm up to 15 psi.
I go very hard in the sand (40-60 MPH is average for me)... I’ve had three slow leaks already from under 1500 off-road miles. All from sand getting between tire and rim.
I’ve popped a bead on Gold Mountain (hard corner didn’t take bypass).
The worst part is I’ve shredded the sidewalls on the KO2s. This is because I run “low” per overlanding standards.
Ive ran much more off-road miles on various mud terrrain ties with 5-8 psi and haven’t shredded as much sidewalk as I did this past year on KO2s.
I haven’t tried crawling with 20 PSI (and never would)... but at 15 psi my KO2s barely hold rocks. Their sweet spot seems to be 8-10 psi.
Point is... you wanna run as low as possible in most cases... as 20 PSI sucks when going fast or crawling... but if your going any decent speed or doing and decent crawling... your going to pop beads or get leaks. So your stuck at 15-20 psi.
I gave up trying and got beadlocks. Switching to cooper Maxx to see how they do before I go back to mud terrains (which I don’t want to do on an over lander).
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