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- Cincinnati, Ohio
I have a 97 with rear and front locked with 4.56's and 8.25 rear end. Tires are 33" TrXus MT's. Up until about 3 months ago or so, everything seemed fine. Then for some strange reason I starting noticing that if I was starting from a stop let's say on wet road, that my back tires would start spinning as soon as I hit the gas, not grabbing traction. Then I started to notice more lately that it feels like my backend is just hopping around like there is no weight in it...but nothing has changed in regards to the weight or inside at all.
Then I started noticing just recently that even on some dry pavement I am getting spinning when going from a stop.
It's really bad when you are sitting at a traffic light on a slight uphill when it's wet and people are behind you and you have this big arse truck and the back tires are just spinning like crazy.
Since my knowledge is not 100% on everything, I have been trying to figure out what in the world is causing this issue. The tires still have great tread, are only 1 old or less and hardly driven. I checked the shocks and they seem to be okay (Bilstein's). The leaves look good, since the backend doesn't look any lower.
So I am stumped and really don't know what to do. My next guess was to rotate the tires front to back and see if that helped any, but I guess I would be dumbfounded if that worked since the tires do have great tread on them.
Any ideas out there?
Thanks,
BB
Then I started noticing just recently that even on some dry pavement I am getting spinning when going from a stop.
It's really bad when you are sitting at a traffic light on a slight uphill when it's wet and people are behind you and you have this big arse truck and the back tires are just spinning like crazy.
Since my knowledge is not 100% on everything, I have been trying to figure out what in the world is causing this issue. The tires still have great tread, are only 1 old or less and hardly driven. I checked the shocks and they seem to be okay (Bilstein's). The leaves look good, since the backend doesn't look any lower.
So I am stumped and really don't know what to do. My next guess was to rotate the tires front to back and see if that helped any, but I guess I would be dumbfounded if that worked since the tires do have great tread on them.
Any ideas out there?
Thanks,
BB