On-Road Review: Yokohama X-AT
If you need an all-around tire that gets excellent traction on 90% of the surfaces on and off-road you cannot beat an all-terrain tire. One of the latest offerings from Yokohama is the new Geolandar X-AT.
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Keeping the Outside of Your Off-Road Rig Clean
When I was a younger man, I spent countless hours keeping my vehicle spotless inside and out. Then I drove quite a few less than stellar cars that even when clean, looked like the wrong end of the junkyard.
Campfire Recipes – Dutch Oven Bread Pudding
There are 27 days until fall! To go on a bit of rant, there are also Halloween decorations up in almost every store.
Versatile Off-Road Wheels from Dirty Life
One of the major hurdles to buying and using a bead lock wheel for off-road duty is price. What if you could buy the wheel in stages? Sounds impossible? Well, Dirty Life wheels may have the solution.
Review – Vanquish Currie Portal F9 SCX10II Axles
First things first, a big shout out to AMain Hobbies for supplying the Vanquish axles. Which makes this review a little different. We have a product from one manufacturer provide by a different entity. Let’s see how it turns out together.
Yokohama GEOLANDAR XMT Off-Road Review
As long-time readers know we always break our tire reviews into two separate parts. The on-road review and the off-road review. We do this so you can focus on what features are most important to you and to give greater detail about tire performance than one article allows for.
Bypass Shocks Explained
Bypass shocks look cool, cost a ton of money, and give you excellent mall crawler cred. But are they worth the money and what do they actually do?
Using Traction Control Off Road
Did you know that your vehicles traction control can be a benefit off road? Read more to find out how.
Deegan 38 M/T Tires On Road Review (Update)
Mickey Thompson has been making tires since the 1960s and they helped shape not just off road but all tires for years and years to come.
What the Diff – Portal Axles Explained
In the pantheon of cool axle tech, there is one axle that stands above the rest. Literally. Portal axles give you built in lift height, better clearance under the differential and can increase available power delivered to the tires with extra gear reduction.
Review – Interco Cobalt
With the advent of the hybrid mud-terrain tires from almost every manufacturer, the Cobalt from Interco is a genuine throwback to a single purpose tire with some modern tweaks.
What the Diff – How Slow Can You Go? – Crawl Ratio
So last week we talked about gear ratio and how to calculate your effective gear ratio. This week I want to dive into an important and definitely more complicated calculation. How to calculate your crawl ratio.
What the Diff – Gear Ratio
Everyone says it. When you go to bigger tires you need to re-gear. Many people know to post that answer on FaceBook when someone asks, but not everyone understands what is happening in your differential and why you need to change the ratio.
Yokohama GEOLANDAR XMT – Snow Update
Normally we don’t run a second review on a tire so close to the last one, we also didn’t expect to get snow right after publishing it either.
Yokohama GEOLANDAR XMT On-Road Review
Yokohama keeps pushing the limits of tire design with each new tire they introduce. It’s been really interesting testing different brands and styles over the last year and this tire once again offers excellent performance with few compromises.
Update – M101A2 Mods, Issues, and More
We have had the M101A2 trailer for a while now and I thought it was a good time for an update.
Campfire Recipes: Cast Iron One Pot Breakfast
Cast iron cookware is my favorite way to make food. Nothing imparts flavor and even heating like cast iron. The downside to cast iron is that it weighs a ton so how do you compensate?
General Grabber ATX – Mileage and Performance Update
When I sold tires in the late 90’s General Tire made these super inexpensive rubber band tires that we sold at Montgomery Ward’s for about $20. I would not have thought 20 years later that they would build some of the best off-road tires I have tested, and yet here we are.
Yokohama Geolandar A/T G015 All Terrain Tires On Road Review
With the advent of mud terrain tires that incorporate many of the features that used to differentiate them from their all-terrain brethren, is there a reason to buy all-terrain tires anymore?