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    Speedometer calibration with different tires?

    Goodyear MTC, BFG BAJA, Goodyear MT. You can find any series truck with any of those tire brands. The BAJA and MTR come in load range D or E. Supposedly you can mix those two tire types, as long as it's the same load range. From what I have been told the MT tires are the hardest compound and...
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    Speedometer calibration with different tires?

    24 bolt is mostly preferred by people that think it looks cool on the civilian owned vehicles. That's the only real reason I can think of, as there doesn't seem to be any real benefit in a non-armored truck. There are a few guys out there with fully armored trucks, but those are the only ones...
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    Speedometer calibration with different tires?

    The regular MT tires are good for 3850 lbs each at 50PSI. That's roughly 7500 lbs each axle (or each end of the truck if you prefer) With my M1123 and the BEOD on it, I cross the scales at over 9k lbs, 3800 lbs front end, 5600 lbs rear. I don't have a turbo or a rear bumper, but those only...
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    Speedometer calibration with different tires?

    Sorry I must have missed it somewhere, but what extra weight on your truck are you talking about that you require the 24 bolt rims for? I know you have an 1152, I just haven't seen where you're running it fully armored or what load you have in it (I'm kind of curious)
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    Speedometer calibration with different tires?

    https://tiresize.com/speedometer-calibration/ Input the tire sizes. Going from a 36x12.5r16.5 to a 37x12.5r16.5 If the speedometer read correctly at 50 mph for the 36" tire, with the 37" tire it will read 51.39mph. At 100 it's 102.78 mph In other words there is less than a 3% difference in...
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