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Nitto Trail Graplers

Old Jan 10, 2013 | 04:41 PM
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Originally Posted by jryano
I've had my Trail Grapplers up to about 88 mph without any vibrations. I absolutely love them.
Yep. Been up there and a few over. No issues ever with mine.
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Old Jan 10, 2013 | 06:43 PM
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Make sure all of the lug nuts are tight enough.

The same problem happened to me in the past and come to find out one of my wheels was not tightened all of the way!
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Old Jan 11, 2013 | 05:30 AM
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Originally Posted by MeMongo
I have 35" Trail grapplers and none of them took more than 2 oz's. They balanced better most little car tires. I would have them rebalanced.
X2. You won't find a rounder mt tire. They don't take much weight to balance. Mine run smooth at every speed
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Old Jan 11, 2013 | 05:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Ryan0260
X2. You won't find a rounder mt tire. They don't take much weight to balance. Mine run smooth at every speed
The Toyo M/T are a little bit rounder. Some don't require any weights to balance. Makes sense that Nitto's balance well since they are owned by Toyo!
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Old Jan 11, 2013 | 05:40 AM
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The jeep is a 2012 with 7000 miles, I would imagine axle and drive shaft is good.


Originally Posted by GoRemote
That leaves you with the wheels... Good! Any issues with axles or drive shafts normally only get worse after you go past 50, they don't get better at any speeds.
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Old Jan 11, 2013 | 05:41 AM
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I checked the tires and they have 42psi in them. Is that to much?? That is what the shop put in.
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Old Jan 11, 2013 | 06:02 AM
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If you have 35" tires, the sweet spot for those will be around 28psi. The Nittos are a load range E tire and are heavy and won't flex well. Made more for heavy trucks that tow. I run my Toyos (basically same as your Nittos) at 28 and it rides much better than 40psi which the tire shop had them at when I bought them.
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Old Jan 11, 2013 | 06:29 AM
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They are 33's . At what PSI will I trip the TPMS?

Originally Posted by mpkelley20
If you have 35" tires, the sweet spot for those will be around 28psi. The Nittos are a load range E tire and are heavy and won't flex well. Made more for heavy trucks that tow. I run my Toyos (basically same as your Nittos) at 28 and it rides much better than 40psi which the tire shop had them at when I bought them.
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Old Jan 11, 2013 | 06:37 AM
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Originally Posted by lisn2me
They are 33's . At what PSI will I trip the TPMS?

Most likely the stock setting is in the 30's. I use a Superchips which allows you to go as low as 26psi if you choose to keep TPMS active as I have chosen to do (I had my TPMS sensors moved to my new wheels). I can shut it off completely with the Superchips if I want to (or a Procal, Hypertec, etc...)

When I went in to change mine, I swear my stock settings were 36psi but that seemed too high in my opinion and thought maybe that was just a Superchips default starting point (not what my Jeep had). Not sure.

Either way, if you have bigger tires than stock, you probably want to adjust your speedo anyway so you are on the right shift points and getting accurate miles on you odemeter. A Procal is about $150 new or @$100 used and can easily adjust the psi setting all the way down to 0 if you so choose. (among many other cool features)
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Old Jan 11, 2013 | 06:40 AM
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What you shoud worry about first is getting the right psi. Lot's of people use the chalk test where you draw a line across the tire and then watch for how evenly it wears off the tire. That will help get the psi to a point where the tires wear evenly. Once you get that, you can worry about how to deal with the TPMS if it happens to go off.
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