What Is Inside My Tire?

Allright...you would think this would have be sorta trivial, swapping the wheels from one to the other....but with 4 jackstands all of which had to end up under the wagon, there was a bit of musical jacks to be played. The biggest issue though was the two different sets of wheels use two different type of lug nuts (one is tapered/acorn style seat, and the cj has shanks). That wouldn't be too big of an issue until I remembered (about halfway through the switch) that the wagon still has left hand threads on the driver side and the cj does not. So I had to find 10 tapered seat RH lug nuts to use to get those wheels mounted onto the cj. And I do have them, but finding them was the fun. They were in an unpacked box buried behind everything else in the attic of the shop - which was somewhere around 120F....but I found them! So here is the cj on barely used 30x9.5 AT tires running on the 'revolver' style 15x8 wheels. I figure one day these wheels may find their way onto to cj if I trash the mag slots beyond use:


And the good news - not a single odd noise or vibration! The ride on pavement was so quiet and smooth (even at 34 psi) that Jen asked if we could somehow replicate that permanently on the cj. And with the smaller tires, the old jeep seems pretty darn peppy - the 33x10.5 MTs do suck some of the life out it (even with 4.88s). But the old MTs go back on and I 'think' we are ready for Leadville. Maybe time for new rubber next summer.