New tires and a different jeep

Long story short, trying to bring 79 CJ7 back to daily driver status. Been sitting in the barn with an occasional drive, waiting for a front-end rebuild. This jeep was all over the road. No fun to drive and dangerous. As part of the project, I needed to replace the 31x10.5x15 Goodyear Wrangler tires that had been on there since the early 90s. Lots of tread, but badly weather cracked. This jeep is #2 in the restore line (behind a 49 CJ3a), so I couldn't spend a bundle on tires.

After much local searching and research here and elsewhere settled on Walmarts Goodyear branded Authority. Reviews seemed either 100% good or bad, but they were within my budget and I'm not going to do a great deal of off road or high-speed highway driving.

So to avoid the hassles, I took the wheels off the jeep yesterday and dropped them off at the local store. Picked them up a couple of hours later and put them on the jeep. Went for a test drive and could not believe it. Up to 55 anyway, all the play is gone from the front end! I still need to replace a lot there, but this was just amazing. I've gone from being afraid to drive this jeep to can't wait for another chance to drive it.

 

good to hear. Its amazing how easily some things are fixed.

 

Pic's!

 

I just went through the same thing. Took off the antique 33's and put on a set of used 32's (in very good shape) and it's like a whole new Jeep. Pleasure to drive!