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4x4 EQUIP TYRE DEFLATORS Adjusting
tyre pressures to suit different terrain is the key to maximising traction and minimising
wheel spin when four wheel driving. It’s quite normal to lower tyre pressures
when driving off bitumen onto bush tracks and pressures can be lower again for
mud driving or rock climbing. Beach sand often ... read more ...
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ARB AIR CHUCKS We’ve been playing around with ARB’s three new air chucks
over the past year and have taken them on several bush trips. They’re strongly made
and beautifully finished. read more ...
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AIR COMPRESSORS
The
need for an air compressor off-road is absolute. Once you’ve employed your
spare tyre to replace a ‘flat’ you don’t have any choice but to repair the next
puncture. Temporary plugs can do the job, but they’re useless without some
means of pumping in replacement air for that which leaked out. read more ... |
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Many off-roaders have trouble determining whether
a punctured tubeless tyre is safe to repair and continue in use.
There's no hard and fast rule, but we can offer some guidelines. read more ... |
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Utes and some base-model, ‘working’ 4x4 wagons have
the advantage over plusher vehicles in that they leave the factory on stronger
wheels and tougher tyres. Light truck tyres are rated for much higher inflation pressures than lighter-constructed tyres, often as high as 560kPa (80psi).
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| LOW PROFILE TYRES 'Profile' is the relationship between the width of a tyre - shoulder to shoulder - and its sidewall height - rim to tread. Profile is expressed as a percentage of height to width, so a 100 percent profile tyre like the 7.00x16 bias-ply tyre from the 1950s and 1960s has a sidewall height that's the same as its width. read more ...
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 | | PERFORMANCE WHEELS
We looked around the 17-inch wheel options and found
a stand-out choice in Performance Wheels’ BB-6 aluminium 17x8s, which
are competition-rated spokers with 1400 kg load capacity, compared with the
standard Land Rover 18s mere 950kg. A bonus is that they’re Australian-made and
weren’t very expensive. read more ...
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 | | REPAIRING FLAT TYRES Tubelsss tyres normally don't go flat all at once: a puncture causes a slow leak and the tyre gradually goes flat - if you're lucky. If you're unlucky, this slow leak causes the tyre to flex excessively and it gets hot enough to blow out - usually in a characteristic 'unzipping'of the sidewall. read more ...
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 | | SPARE TYRES For the past decade car makers have been trying
to eradicate the spare wheel and tyre, with mixed levels of success. In the 4x4
world the spare will be with us for the foreseeable future. read more ... |
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