7.50-16 on a wagon

A long time ago I had bias 31 x 10.5 on my early Cherokee. I found it almost undrivable on the highway; it kept trying to climb the ruts left by the big trucks. You would have so much wheel into it trying to keep from going left and finally get it down on the bottom of the rut and then with that much wheel it would shoot right. Nearly impossible to drive strait; just awful.

Put a set of decent Bridgestone similar size radials on and night and day better. It became a pleasure to drive long distances. Maybe those particular tires were part of the problem, but that experience has forever made bias a "h*ll no" for me.
 
JABJEEP said:
With antique vehicles it's always a trade off if you do more with the antique than show it. Vanity, ah....vanity!
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What IS that tire? Looks like it belongs on some sort of back hoe... :eek:

The subject of what tires to use has been beaten to death on this and every other old Jeep forum. And Jeff, respectfully disagreeing with your trade-off remark: there should be absolutely no question what type of tire to use if you are using your Willys as anything but trailered show car or lawn ornament: essentially a modern radial mounted on a sound wheel. Your safety and that of those around you depend on it.
Believe me, if you're driving your Wagon, Truck or 1/4 ton around you will get lots of looks and just about as many compliments. Please let me know if anyone offering up a "sweet ride" remark follows it up with "except for those tires..." :rolleyes:
 
jamesdart said:
That’s wild to think for how many years people drove unsafe vehicles on the roads.
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Seeing as you're a Jersey boy, your sarcasm doesn't go un noticed. BTW, I'm Philly, born and raised: we taught you ;)

BUT, in all seriousness, years ago when everyone was driving around on bias tires, everyone was driving around on bias tires, hence speed limits were slower AND so were the vast amount of vehicles. Fast (literally) forward to today and you're out there with modern vehicles doing modern speeds. If you're not making at least some sort of effort to keep up, you could end up in real trouble.
 
Tralehead said:
What IS that tire?
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The modern version of the type of tread that was on the common mud and snow tires of the '60s. It's a very close pattern to what I have on the wagon right now as rollers (they're at least 50 years old!) and very similar to what's on my '55 truck right now, which I'm calculating to be at least 30 years old (and they look like new, but at 30 years old I'm afraid to go over 35mph with them).
 
JABJEEP said:
For looks, I think the period correct tread patterns are best, but IMO they don't perform as well as the modern tires with the "non-period" correct tread patterns. With antique vehicles it's always a trade off if you do more with the antique than show it. Vanity, ah....vanity!
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Mine are ‘Uniroyal Fleetmaster Deep Lug’ that have basically the same tread pattern.

Bill
 
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