Mud tire rotation

[85_Ranger4x4]

What is the best way to rotate mud tires? My BFG MT's on my Ranger are getting close to needing rotated, and I want to rotate them the best way to keep them as quiet as they are now going down the road.

Criss-cross corner to corner, front to back, some variation of the two or what is the best way to keep them great?

 

[Frank The Tank]

front to back on a 4wd is the way I always did it,
on a dually front to inside, indside to outside, outside to front.
on any other 2wd criss cross front left to rear right right front to rear left.

IF you have an MT spare, you are supposed to keep it in the rotation as well. I never have but I imagine, each time you just write it down and rotate out a different tire.

that's what I do.

Frank

 

[4x4junkie]

I've always done mine:

Rears straight up to the front.
Fronts crossed over to the rear.

 

[Jay'94]

Bias tires get rotated criss cross as there is no belts inside to develope a pattern based on rotation.
Radial go fronts on the back, nacks on the front and whichever side you ratoate the spare in stick to that side, so you'd have a three way going on.
The deal with radials is once they run a while, don't ask me I'm not a tire manufaturer, they develope a pattern that if transfered to the other tries to force them the other direction.
I've actually never met anyoone who crisscrossed radials and ending up with tire failure, however everything i've ever gotten from "people who know" tell me it's very bad and can also cause a kind of bounce and results in bad cupping or tire failure.
had an old set of Denman ground hawg bias plys that didn't ride real well on the street but couldn't be stopped off road. Will probably get another set once I wear out these TSL swamper radials.

 

[Sasquatch_Ryda]

I've always done mine:

Rears straight up to the front.
Fronts crossed over to the rear.

Bingo.

 

[4x4junkie]

Bias tires get rotated criss cross as there is no belts inside to develope a pattern based on rotation.
Radial go fronts on the back, nacks on the front and whichever side you ratoate the spare in stick to that side, so you'd have a three way going on.
The deal with radials is once they run a while, don't ask me I'm not a tire manufaturer, they develope a pattern that if transfered to the other tries to force them the other direction.
I've actually never met anyoone who crisscrossed radials and ending up with tire failure, however everything i've ever gotten from "people who know" tell me it's very bad and can also cause a kind of bounce and results in bad cupping or tire failure.
had an old set of Denman ground hawg bias plys that didn't ride real well on the street but couldn't be stopped off road. Will probably get another set once I wear out these TSL swamper radials.

Very old info (long obsolete).

Radials made since at least the early 1980s (if not before) can be rotated in a criss-cross manner without issue.

 

[Frank The Tank]

I'm thinking directional tires....... on a 4x4

Frank

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I'm thinking directional tires....... on a 4x4

Frank

These are not directional.

I know I did the old criss cross thing on my AT's... it made them incredibly loud. I probably put it off to long though.