I guess you don't always have to match axle ratios...

[tbrand]

 

Not if you run 40's on the front and 48's on the back.

 

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/06/16/hemmings-find-of-the-day-quagmire/

[Incommando]

As long as the final drive ratio ( tire height x gear ratio) matches you can run different height of tires. If the axles ratios are the same front to rear, the tire sizes had better match. But if you do the math so that "X" tire height with "X" axle ratio equals "Y" tire height with "Y" axle ratio you are good to go. :wrench:

[mvusse]

A large number of 4wd farm tractors use different size tires front and rear, with axle ratios to match the tires.

[Thunderbear]

Purpose?

 

I thought dunes at first, but probably not with a slammed/tubbed rear end. All I can think of is show truck. Boo.

[Incommando]

Mud drags, most likely. Drag racing in a mud pit using a christmas tree and all.

[jpnjim]

That's "Quagmire"

 

It was a bad azz mudder, 15+ years ago.

 

I remember being impressed by it, back then.

 

But the goalposts have moved pretty far since the 1990's.

[89eliminator]

that is a family friend of ours truck. he wheels it and wheels it hard, he just fixes/replaces what breaks.

[Pete M]

it was in fourwheeler's top truck challenge back in 1998. man was it ever impressive! didn't win, but they ran out of time in the tank trap (lost a lot of time in the canyon being a big truck) and decided to finish the course anyway, just for fun. :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[dakal]

thanks for the pics pete.