33 inch MT's in moab

[HalfmuleFarmer]

If you’re like me, as you make more trips to Moab, your confidence and driving skills will improve and you’ll do more difficult trails. You’ll get better at picking lines, understand which line is two door or four door friendly, and choosing lines that are 33” tire friendly. Clearly, 35” tires make some lines easier. But a skilled driver can take 33” tires many places a less skilled one can’t take 35”s. It wasn’t until our third trip wheeling with a two door JK that I finally became able to “see” and understand the above.

We’re making our fourth and probably final trip this summer. After one early May trip, we now go in the summer. Late July or early August. Trails aren’t busy at all, lodging is a cheap as it gets and town isn’t busy. But most of all, its hot. Slick rock is hot, and tires get hot which equals insane grip

Your rig could do Poison Spider, Steel Bender Loop, Wipeout Hill, Seven Mile Rim, Flat Iron Mesa, and more. Many times there are bypasses to the most difficult obstacles. We even did Metal Masher, but bypassed the obstacles you see the buggies doing on YouTube

It’s hard to draw any conclusions as to why someone else struggled and you didn’t. It could be tires themselves, air pressure, driving technique, line choice, etc.

Don’t let this be you last trip to Moab. I’m 2,100 miles away and old. A 4,000 mile round trip is getting to be too much.

Video is Gold Bar Rim waterfall. Talked w/ a group of Jeeps w/ 38“ and 40” tires that all had to winch up it the night before. As you can see I walked right up it w/ my 35” BFG KO2’s. Made me smile.

^^^ Wisdom right there. ^^^

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[ejpaul1]

If you’re like me, as you make more trips to Moab, your confidence and driving skills will improve and you’ll do more difficult trails. You’ll get better at picking lines, understand which line is two door or four door friendly, and choosing lines that are 33” tire friendly. Clearly, 35” tires make some lines easier. But a skilled driver can take 33” tires many places a less skilled one can’t take 35”s. It wasn’t until our third trip wheeling with a two door JK that I finally became able to “see” and understand the above.

We’re making our fourth and probably final trip this summer. After one early May trip, we now go in the summer. Late July or early August. Trails aren’t busy at all, lodging is a cheap as it gets and town isn’t busy. But most of all, its hot. Slick rock is hot, and tires get hot which equals insane grip

Your rig could do Poison Spider, Steel Bender Loop, Wipeout Hill, Seven Mile Rim, Flat Iron Mesa, and more. Many times there are bypasses to the most difficult obstacles. We even did Metal Masher, but bypassed the obstacles you see the buggies doing on YouTube

It’s hard to draw any conclusions as to why someone else struggled and you didn’t. It could be tires themselves, air pressure, driving technique, line choice, etc.

Don’t let this be you last trip to Moab. I’m 2,100 miles away and old. A 4,000 mile round trip is getting to be too much.

Video is Gold Bar Rim waterfall. Talked w/ a group of Jeeps w/ 38“ and 40” tires that all had to winch up it the night before. As you can see I walked right up it w/ my 35” BFG KO2’s. Made me smile.

dude, thats cool! thanks for sharing

 

[Original Bender]

I’ve done Hells revenge on 32”s no lift lmao! Open difs too!

 

[timhood]

So, I bought a 25 Badlands without SAS, which meant I was going to get 33's. It's what I wanted, but I had a concern in the back of my head that the types of trails I wanted to go on would make me regret not getting 35's.

Fast forward to today, I was doing fins and things trail here in Moab and didn't scrape anything but my mudflaps. What's more strange is a guy behind me on 35 ATs was struggling, NOT with clearance but with grip.

Fins and Things is all the more extreme I plan on doing with it, so I am not sure I am not missing out on anything by not getting the 35's.

MT's are most assuredly loud, but dang, do they work well. I as well only aired down to 30 and didn't do any substantive slipping.

Happy to share a video if anyone is interested, but really just normal stuff to the masses, I am sure.

You can do all but about the 10 most extreme trails listed in the FunTreks Guide to Moab, UT Backroads & 4-Wheel-Drive Trails with a non-Sas Badlands. On the most extreme trails, you'll scrape skidplates some, but that's acceptable to me, since that's what they're there for. I did Top of the World and scraped about 5 times or so. Probably could have avoided at least half of those had I used a spotter or taken my time more. The whole point of the Badlands is that it can do "out of the box" anything that 99% of people would want to do with it. I think you chose well, but I'm probably biased.

 

[ejpaul1]

You can do all but about the 10 most extreme trails listed in the FunTreks Guide to Moab, UT Backroads & 4-Wheel-Drive Trails with a non-Sas Badlands. On the most extreme trails, you'll scrape skidplates some, but that's acceptable to me, since that's what they're there for. I did Top of the World and scraped about 5 times or so. Probably could have avoided at least half of those had I used a spotter or taken my time more. The whole point of the Badlands is that it can do "out of the box" anything that 99% of people would want to do with it. I think you chose well, but I'm probably biased.

Im genuinely pleasantly shocked at this trims capabilities

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