Yeah I don't think it was about tire size I think he needs to drop the pressure even more and if you're going to do something like that you pretty much need beadlocks I think So if you can go down to like 5 psi or something to put enough tire down. Bigger tires are going to hurt your crawl ratio unless you re-gear and that's pretty expensive so if you have a big enough tire I would do beadlocks and low low pressure if you need more tire down. Those Patagonia can probably hold like 15,000 lb of weight at that size. It's overkill for a 4000 lb vehicle The tire pressure has to go way way down. Even with my 30.6 inch tires if my street pressure is over 32 lb it's a skateboard. Even the load inflation tables tell me that I can run 26 street pressure. 26 actually works pretty darn good off-road for me most of the time but if I had bead locks and LT tires I'd go to like five or eight with tires that big on a vehicle that light if you're going to crawl rocks like that.
I think people should be a little bit more scientific about tire pressure recommendations. I would say look at the load inflation tables and start off by trying a pressure that holds one times your vehicle weight if you add all 4 tires together (for trails).
I actually live near EM! Awesome to see you running those trails! So many fun places to explore near mercur and ophir too! Wish I had my 4runner up and running. I know you guys are super busy making videos, but those tune files for the 1uz would be very useful for me :)
Call me crazy but I run 15 psi in the rear and 20 psi in the front daily driving an XJ but I ain’t loaded up with gear and a roof top tent. If I had headlocks I’d be under 10 fer sur!!!
This was an awesome video, that trail looked tough. I hate how in video, obstacles never look as angled and big as they are. Definitely the extra “overland weight” didn’t help.
@@gageboysgarage6059 that’s awesome. Did you come all the way to Idaho to go to Atlanta? You should’ve hit up the owyhee mountains. There’s a bunch of fun rock crawling out there.
i’m not sure yet how i’m gonna fix the oil starvation problem. it was a little low on oil so maybe if it’s topped off it will perform better, thank you for watching!!