Light weight 37"s? Lightest weight 37"s?

REDLYNER

REDLYNER

Mall Crawling Race Rig
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Just wondering if anyone else had put in the time to see what the light weight tires are out there? I'm running extremely heavy Pitbull Rockers and was thinking about moving to a lighter tire. Any suggestions?

Multi use rig: rock crawling, daily driver, endurance racing.


So far, I've seen:

Goodyear MTR/K 37/12.50 r17 @ 74lbs
BFG Blue Label Krawler 37/12.50 r17 77lbs
Falken Wildpeak 37/12.50 r17 @ 81lbs (just won the EMC race at KoH)
Pibull radial 37/12.50 r17 @ 92lbs (my current tire)


Any thoughts?
 
Red labels!!!!
 
a few buddies of mine used to run the 37" MTR when they came out years ago. I was going to get a set myself. I always thought they were a good tire. Lots of the them drove them on the street and got good mileage out of them. We wheeled Tellico and they worked well enough. On dry rocks they worked good IMO.
 
I got home from Baja a couple years ago and soon there after saw a Toyo Tires full page ad congratulating Robby Gordon for winning the race on the same tires he started with. I about dropped my teeth! Hell, I personally changed 2 totaly ruined flats. I bumped into the girl that does his ads at the San Flippy 250 and asked her WTH? Arent you scared somebody videoed our pit stops? She said, nope...He started the race with Toyo Tires and he finished the race with Toyo tires. They got busted all over the desert racing websites. She disapeared from the industry... probably works for McDonalds now.
 
Km2's - 70.66
MT/R Kevlar - 74
Irok bias (14 wide)- 68
Irok radial - 81

I lie my km2s really good on the street and in mud and dirt haven't tried them in rocks yet though. Is this more trail then road type rig?
 
Deny
My wife and I both run KM2's on our DD's with great results. My YJ has about 5k on them and no noticeble wear so far.

Sent you a PM Jay...
 
I've seen some guys with pretty high mileage on their KM2's as well. However, I thought they measured pretty small?


And yes, the Falkens would be grooved. Which pretty much eliminates them for me, since I'm not going to be grooving them.
 
36" IROC bias = 66 lbs
37" IROC bias = 69 lbs
36" TSL bias = 65 lbs

I'm going to be looking for a VERY light weight 36-37" tire and wheel setup for my next build of my Sami and I think I have narrowed it down to those three options.
 
Jody Treadway said:
Deny
My wife and I both run KM2's on our DD's with great results. My YJ has about 5k on them and no noticeble wear so far.
Sent you a PM Jay...
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REDLYNER said:
I've seen some guys with pretty high mileage on their KM2's as well. However, I thought they measured pretty small?
And yes, the Falkens would be grooved. Which pretty much eliminates them for me, since I'm not going to be grooving them.
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thanks for clearing that up :burnout:
 
orangecherokee said:
I thought the KM2s were wearing out fast on the street :confused: anybody confirm or deny?
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I couldn't imagine them being too terrible about wearing fast, after all the KM1s wore like iron in terms of other MTs. I had nearly 50k miles on my 285 KM1s when I removed them from my 3/4 ton, and all 4 were above the wear indicators, 2 of them had nearly 1/4" of tread, but I was pretty good about rotating often. I wouldn't think the tire that replaced the KM1s would backtrack on treadwear if that is something BFG is somewhat known for, sadly weak sidewalls are also what they are known for.

REDLYNER said:
I've seen some guys with pretty high mileage on their KM2's as well. However, I thought they measured pretty small?
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You know, I've never gotten all of the complaints about BFGs measuring small...If it's an issue, buy the next bigger size :beer: But yea, many of them typically do run small to the size on the sidewall, but do run close to the actual dimensions posted on their spec sheet.

For what it's worth, I went down from a set of 37x14x20 Nittos on my truck to some 37x12.5x17 BFG KM1s on stock 17" aluminum wheels, dropping ~25lbs per wheel/tire in the process, the difference in the responsiveness of the truck was night and day. Because of that noticeable change, I have been factoring tire weight into my choices a lot more.
 
drkelly said:
36" IROC bias = 66 lbs
37" IROC bias = 69 lbs
36" TSL bias = 65 lbs

I'm going to be looking for a VERY light weight 36-37" tire and wheel setup for my next build of my Sami and I think I have narrowed it down to those three options.
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Id be willing to bet the 36" TSL next to the other 2 is taller also...
 
paradisePWoffrd said:
Id be willing to bet the 36" TSL next to the other 2 is taller also...
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Yup, and I'd be willing to bet that it is taller than the majority of 37" tires mentioned in this thread.
 
Blue label krawlers. I love mine, in my opinion they seem to be a better tire than the kevlar
 
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