so you spend how many thousand dollars on brand new tires, just to wear the crap out of them before they get any use? there is absolutely no logic in that what-so-ever
yup.
that is why i am not offended by you saying i am retarded. how could i be....with such wretched excess for break in rituals.....retarded is being polite.
you should see the shit fit my wife throws and the words that come out of her old battle axe mouth.
back when i regularly wheeled i usually had to have all the tires shredding and smoking at various points of most the trails i frequented..
how is that any different? i know i had a set of iroks that never seen pavement, i put them on when i got to the event, and ripped two sidewalls in less then 10 minutes. and yes i buy insurance for that. i have had it happen with various types of new tires over the years....first trip to the woods to see what they do...and whooooosh....
back when i was running a healthy small block....turning boggers to grease was easy with the bed unladen, and they spin great but lack traction so bad on damp pavement it dont even hurt them when the bed is empty. with the locker kicked in and my bias valves engaged i could do all sorts of fun shit in empty parking lots.
i prefer to look around locally to what is available and cost effective regardless. sasq may have narrowed his housing, but it still uses junkyard parts in a jam....and worst case he can just run fw till he can narrow another housing.
as to weight, my truck is 6k with me in it....88 ext cab ranger....stock it was 4200.
those are light load with road tools, real world, on the fawking scale weights.
i see guys say the 4x4 ext cabs are 3500-3800.....i dont know how.....never seen one under 3900's