My truck is currently a dually convertion, with an adapter on the rear. i have mixed feelings about duals and the singals. I live on a farm and tow heavy trailers about half the time, i like the duals for that, but when it rains the duals like to float on the mud, not very good for traction, (the 4x4 helps). Whats your guys opinions?

 

I like dualls for hauling, but SRW is better in the mud.
I have had 2 DRW 2WD and they are almost useless for a farm truck.

I am almost done with my DRW conversion and i put some pretty agressive tread A/T's on, I hope i can get out in the barn lot with it soft or snowey.

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Dar

 

Any opinions, thoughts, or advice is great help

 

TWO are always better than one.

I will argue common knowledge and say that IF the DRW has the same tread design, with the same tread depth, the DRW will go anywhere the SRW will go.


A DRW with straight ribbed highway tires will not go where a SRW with lug treads will go; however, put the lugs on the DRW and ribs on the SRW and the situation will be reversed.


I currently have seven trucks, four DRWs and three SRWs; and, I find that, with equivalent tires, the DRWs will go anywhere the SRWs will go.

 

I think part of your problem is your front tires look well worn and the rear ones have a pretty closed design tread.

I hate the look of duallies in back and a single up front. if you don't need the duallies for towing then i'd ditch them and get some nice A/T or M/T tires. Check out the goodyear Duratrac it's like a cross between A/T and M/T

 

I use it for towing about half the time, if I continue to use duallys I'm going to try to find some dullay axles, and I plan on getting cooper stt or good year wranglers. I've heared good things about the stt and I've used the wranglers in the past

 

Check out some treadwrights i bought a set of 4 only had them 4 about 2 weeks but so far they are great cant beat the price either

 

How are they in the mud. The mud I drive through packs into the treads and is really slick

 

Not if you dont have enough ground pressure to get traction. More square inches of rubber on the ground the less psi of ground pressure.

I would never own a dually, just dont like them. Id rather have three axles.

 

I thought about doing that too, but I want to use rockwells, or set it up so I have 6 wheel drive

 

YES definatly dont want a dummy axle. Not cool.

 

I have a set of the guard dog 285/75/16 in my opinion its a good all around tire on and off road not real aggressive but your talkin 2 a guy that runs nitto mud grapplers on my tj they sound like a cessna goin down the road. they have another style a little more aggressive but i think think the guard dogs would get you through anywhere your goin probably even places you shouldnt be. check them out mine are an E load rating on matching casings for $600.99 set of 4 285's shipped to my door. Pretty hard to beat that. I did alot of research on them an couldnt find anything bab about them.

 

if i have two rear axles they will be live axles or not there at all, tag axles are for dummies, i thought about useing a tranfer case and have one axle live constantly and be able to lock the other one in when its needed so i can have 6x2, 6x4, or a 6x6 when its absolutly needed

 

ill deffinatly have to look into those

 

I think that was kind of how the Dodge T-Rex 6x6 worked. I beleive they used another drive shaft to power the third axle.