Wild and Free

I about fell over when the guy I got my Coopers from said the tires in my pic of them said they have around 60K miles on them already, they have a lot of life left for that many miles for a MT style tread.

Same goes for a stock trailer full of critters that weigh 1200-2k lbs and jostling around.

Same here we have glare and or black ice quite a bit and I have ran studs on my wifes last 3 front wheel drive cars and she can drive through more stuff than most 4X4,s do. Her office parking lot is on a side hill and she has been the only one who was able to get into and out of it many times over the years due to ice with studs on directional Firestone winter force tires. A lot of guys who work in the same building run the Nokias on 4X4's and and have been stuck several times. She just smiles and pulls away.

Yes. Warden is a lot nicer tire all around in my mind.

Here are pics of my new $400 "Digs" lol. also one of my new Treadwright Wardens on top of the coopers.

All we run at the coal mine are Toyo open country MT tires, if one can spin them they clean out and will move you, only time one gets stuck is if one gets high centered. We have clay mud gumbo about 10 thousand times more slick than glare ice and about that much stickier than road tar lol.

My wife cried when I sold my 02, she doesn't realize that it was just a hunk of iron, she thinks of it different than me she saw me pour sweat and passion into it for years but all things have an ending point which is different to all. I talked to her for 2 years that the 03 VW tdi was going down the road before 300k as well as it was due for more routine maintenance and work all at once than what the car was worth. Can't say I would do anything different than you did, If I had to replace my 05 Cummins there would be a newer Ram 2500 crew cab with a 6.4L hemi in it sitting in my garage in place of the cummins, I would not go with a newer diesel anymore. We run chevy at work and I would never ever look at one for myself personally, heck our full time pickup mechanic is........umm was a hard core GM man until recently he bought a Toyota Tundra.

This is what I thought when I saw the coopers but will try them anyhow.

Those Hankook Dyna pro at's are awesome. They are really popular here, That is whats on my 05 right now and they are a great all around tire and are wearing awesome, Thinking I will have around 60K on them by the time I take them off. I just scored a set of aftermarket aluminum wheels with half tread Cooper stt's on them for 400 bucks. will run them out this winter and see if I like the wheels or not they have a wider than stock off set so not sure if I will like them or not but couldn't go wrong for 400 bucks. A no loose deal all around either way.

These are BFG's old tread design before going to the new KO tread design, the new BFG ko's have more tread siping and a more aggressive sidewall I put 85K on a set of BFG AT 285-75-16 sold them to a buddy who ran them another 20K and sold the pickup and we saw them around about a year after that. I had them siped when they were brand new before installing them. They were all but bald when he sold the pickup about couldn't see the tread design anymore but they were black round and still held air which was all the final owner needed I guess lol.

I have that tire in D rating on my 1500 Hemi. I have a set of 265-70-17 E rated waiting to go on the cummins when the time comes. Sign up for their e-mails and you will get notifications of when they have sales they do 10-12% off with free shipping a couple times a year around certain holidays, that's how I bought both sets of mine.

My 1500 sees heavier loads than most pavement queen 2500 and 3500 rigs on the road. They have load ratings on their site for every size tire.

B&W Companion hitch would have fixed you up there.

Yes they are :Retrread" tires as Buzzin said they are not "recapped". I have about 20K of the most abusive conditions on mine and they are holding up great, absolutely no complaints at all I even bought a second set on sale for when I am ready on my 05 this fall before winter. They have been around for a long time and I have found nobody who has ever had a bad experience with them and there are a lot of folks who run them around here. Other than the internet rumor of some one who read of some one reading a bad story about them I have never seen or heard first hand from anyone who had a bad thing to say about them.

I am liking the tires I have on my 2010 1500 Hemi from https://www.treadwright.com/ I bought a set for my cummins too on sale a couple months ago and will have them on both rigs come fall. For the price one can't go wrong. I run 250+- miles gravel a week with my hemi and they have around 20k on them since installing them and they are not chunking and look really good yet, should make 40 K miles easy with all the gravel and trailers it sees. Got both sets of 4 delivered to my door step for $560 each set.

It can be done, I have seen guys modify and reinforce the front frame work of the campers so to handle the extra stress but on some campers its not accessible and if so its a major job to get to on some models. I think MNTom had to reinforce his front frame work on his a couple years ago, he had a thread either here or on his own site with a good pic selection and write up on it. Don't remember all the details but it started with some cracks he noticed.

Yep like Mike said check with the trailer mfg, some are capable some absolutely are built so cheap its not even an option period. I have seen pics of the front hitch assembly and almost the entire front of some campers that that had the conversion ball and they were about torn in two from the added stress of the changed geometry and weight distribution. The ball allows a lot more articulation and flex versus the more solid and stability of a 5th wheel plate and pin.

Wife wants to make a trip through Yellowstone in the future "she has never seen it before until she drove through real quick on a trip to Salt lake city a couple weeks ago" , so I told her about this get together and now we are on the edge of planning a week long vaca next year headed that general direction. We would most likely be tenting and or sleeping in hotels or B&B's along the way some days.

Most have even gone to aftermarket Throttle body systems. If I were to do an old build I would go throttle body system myself as well. Cheap and super easy to install.

Just need to cut the hot dogs up the right way lol.

The 350 transmission is 21-3/4" long and its one-piece case is cast of aluminum alloy. It features an integral bellhousing. The TH350 weighs 120 lbs. It has a distinctive oil pan that is chamfered at the passenger side, rear corner. At the right rear of the case is the modulator. The TH350-C was the lockup torque converter version introduced in the late 1979 model year, and was produced through 1984. This later version had an electronic lock-up converter to increase fuel-efficiency at cruising speeds. The TH350-C lockup version can be identified by an electrical plug on the left side of the transmission. When paired with an aftermarket TCC control unit, these can be desirable transmissions, and up to 10% more efficient at cruising speeds. The conventional TH350 had part codes of M33, M38 & M39. The TH350C had codes of MV4, MX2, MX3 & MX5. There were downsized derivatives of the TH350, designated TH200, TH200C, TH250, TH250C & Below is a fancy controller companies have now, the ones I did were a simple on off switch like some do on our cummins one had to be on top of things and remember to switch it off before slowing down too far. https://www.summitracing.com/parts/bmm-70244/overview/

Mike is always trying to get his point across about running larger tires. Here is a pic to help some understand better............

I think anyone who has worked with the stuff for any length of time can relate to this one lol.........

I didn't know but this was actually a factory offering on some GM cars from 1978 to 1984. The trans was a model TH350C.