Re: Wheels for '87 4kcsq

[audidudi@mindspring.com (Jeffrey J. Goggin)]

>Jeff, you ever driven on icy/snowy road with the tires like that?  I
>only say that because my 4kcsq had tires slightly different in diameter.  Drove
>fine until the first day of snow this winter... with the center diff locked
>it fish tailed like you would not believe.  Stopped in that night and got
>two tires that matched the front and no more fish tailing.  Doesn't take
>much to screw up the traction.

Interesting ... Yes, I've driven it briefly on an icy/snowy road and yes, it
was loosey-goosey there, too.  I don't understand why there should be a
problem, though, since the measured difference in diameter was exactly 5.5mm
or about .2" ... this is less than the difference between a new set of full
tread-depth tires and a set of worn-out ones where the tread depth is at the
wear bars.  I've successfully run slightly mis-matched tires before on the
track and never had any problems with oversteer there...

I'll have to think about this some more ... thanks for the input!
 
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