Grooving tires?

Has anyone here ever siped and grooved a set of 15-35-15 TSL Swamper's I am thinking about doing it to mine because they are about 1/3 tread and the edges of the lugs are rounded,I would like to sharpen them up and make them a little more flexible by siping the center lugs.Any thoughts or pic of what anyone has done would be very helpful !

 

Crickets chirping ................. Cant be to much diff then doing the racecar tires .

 

Those big ole lugs ought to help a bit. I used to get into the cords every once and a while when grooving dirt track tires. Cleaning up the edges on all that rubber would be easy and worth the trouble. I haven't used that old groover in years. I wonder where it is. You know, one of these days I should have a race parts yard sale, just so I can find all the stuff I still have. I did find two almost brand new racing shocks the other day. The welded bearing ends were broken off each. I'm sure I'll find SOMETHING to do with them ... R)

 

I've grooved my 36" SXs. I'll snap a pic or two in the next couple of days. In a nutshell, I just cut across the rows of middle lugs making them half of a chevron instead of a full one. Make any sense?

 

Make good sense that is what I was thinking!

 

Do a google search and you'll find examples of both siping and regrooving. From what I've read, siping is very effective. http://www.4crawler.com/4x4/CheapTricks/TireSiping.shtml http://www.rockcrawler.com/features/baldwin/jan98/jan98.htm
Many more if you search.

 

Well I bought a 250 watt tire groover this week and after alot of hard work (about an hour and a half per tire) this is the finished product!I only had time to do the front ones today!

 

I found this tool http://www.randysracemart.com/tirgroovir.html looks pretty cool. I plan on re-groving and siping my tires sometime in the future,,, when I can find some free time.

 

John, I got an older model I used for circle track grooving years ago. PM me if you're interested and I'll dig it out to make sure it still works.

 

heres another grover
http://host179.ebm.bestsoftwarehost.com/iw_products.m4p.pvx?;products_no_tree?company=APS?CAT=TIAG

 

Both of those links are pretty much what I have. Mine is the Ideal brand and looks the same. It always worked well. I think I used to turn the blade over and used that for sipping. I dug it out today and it heated right up.

 

Bruce,
thanks for the offer but I'm so behind on projects right now (4 pending) it will be a long while till I get around to the tire regroving.

 

Not a problem, John. It's been in a box on the shelf for a number of years and doesn't eat much.

 

Grooving Thread, I'm in. A little late to the party, but the cutting made the ssr's grab a little better in the snow.