I thought Rusty's had a JKS track bar that worked too?
I thought Rusty's had a JKS track bar that worked too?
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No Matt, if you rotate the wheel, you change the direction of rotation. If you have directional tires,
you change the flow of the tread. Originally, you had to keep radial tires going the same way.
That is no longer true. Directional tires are still built to rotate one way.
That's who I was thinking of. They made a track bar for there 4" lift.
I see so my taking the front right and putting it to the left rear your changing which direction the tire spins in. I'm guessing my tires are directional tires do to the tread pattern I'll have to look.
I'm pretty sure someone here ordered the rusty's track bar one of the WK guys I think.
I think Nathan (Omelet) has one.
You misunderstood what I said. Your post made it seem like you thought the inside tread (or inner sidewall) of the tire would be on the outside if you crossed the rotation which isn't true..... the inside of the tire stays on the inside regardless of where you mount it on the vehicle. So having whitewall mounted "inside" doesn't even matter, you'll never see.
Sure, the direction of rotation changes, but the inner tread is still on the inside of the vehicle.
So you're talking about dismounting the tires from the rim, flipping them over and then rotating them?
When you said this;
I thought you were talking about just doing a normal cross rotation....
If you don't dismount the tires from the wheels, the inside tread always stays on the inside. If you dismount and flip the tire on the wheel, obviously the inside tread goes to the outside. I just didn't realize that's what you were talking about doing.
Ah. Well that explains it.
If you have directional tread id just do a front to rear rotation then. One of the benefits of cross rotation is changing the direction of rotation, which you obviously can't do with directional tires. It wouldn't be worth it, IMO, to dismount & rebalance all the tires every 5-6k.
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