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ghunt81
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- Location
- Clarksburg, WV
- Vehicle Year
- 2009
- Make / Model
- Ford
- Engine Size
- 4.0
- Transmission
- Automatic
Although my truck is still a ways from being done, I'm planning on doing 2" shackles in the rear plus a torsion crank up front (already have pre-07 keys and am buying #1 bars soon), and I want to run 32x11.50-15's.
I've been looking at the BFG AT's and just recently found the Mastercraft Courser MXT which is a great price for a "mud" tire. I also noticed the tread blocks on the MXT have some siping which is a plus.
The truck will serve mostly as winter transportation plus hopefully some off roading of some sort.
Now, the reason I am looking at the MXT's is because several years ago I ran Treadwright's knockoffs of the Goodyear MTR (they call it the "Guard Dog" now) on my old diesel F250. I got the ones with the walnut shells in the tread. I absolutely loved those tires in the winter, they had great grip all the time, would dig through hard packed snow, but is that not a fair comparison due to them having the walnut shells in the tread (the shells fell out, creating small voids that acted like siping)? They also seemed to have a soft rubber compound as I didn't even get 20K out of them before they were pretty much bald, that may have also helped winter traction. I also admit I love the look of a mud tire.
The roads here tend to have a lot of slush and crap on them in the winter which I was thinking the MXT might cut through better. Or, am I making an apples to oranges comparison?
I've been looking at the BFG AT's and just recently found the Mastercraft Courser MXT which is a great price for a "mud" tire. I also noticed the tread blocks on the MXT have some siping which is a plus.
The truck will serve mostly as winter transportation plus hopefully some off roading of some sort.
Now, the reason I am looking at the MXT's is because several years ago I ran Treadwright's knockoffs of the Goodyear MTR (they call it the "Guard Dog" now) on my old diesel F250. I got the ones with the walnut shells in the tread. I absolutely loved those tires in the winter, they had great grip all the time, would dig through hard packed snow, but is that not a fair comparison due to them having the walnut shells in the tread (the shells fell out, creating small voids that acted like siping)? They also seemed to have a soft rubber compound as I didn't even get 20K out of them before they were pretty much bald, that may have also helped winter traction. I also admit I love the look of a mud tire.
The roads here tend to have a lot of slush and crap on them in the winter which I was thinking the MXT might cut through better. Or, am I making an apples to oranges comparison?
