The Gar Aero or now the "Alaska TUNDRA TIRES" use adapters to size your 6 inch wheels out to a ten inch diameter, then you use commonly available ten inch tires, but they are ALL tube type tires, which means that you cannot run them at super low pressures.īumper, as far as these wheel adapters and 29 inch tires compared to the Goodyears, the cost is higher, these are heavier, but they do have a significantly larger foot print and axle hight. So, if you're talking about Alaska BUSH WHEELS, as I think you are, it's a different tire, and they don't wear all that well on pavement. The confusion comes from the Gar Aero brand name change to this: The 29 x 11 x 10 tires are tube type tires, NOT tubeless like the ABW tires. That is a world of difference from an Alaska Bush Wheel 29 inch tire, like you have. If I understand what he was asking initially, it was the old Gar Aero conversion to a ten inch wheel, with installation of a 29 x 11x 10 inch tire. You are talking about a different tire, I believe. I've also run the 8.50 X 10 tires on the same wheel adapters. If, on the other hand, you're landing in rocks, stumps, etc.they do not work very well, due to poor flexibility of the sidewalls.Īlso, these are TUBE type tires, so you cannot run them at extremely low pressures like you can with Alaska Bush Wheels.ĭid I mention they're heavy? I've run these on Cessna 206, 185, and Cubs. So, if you are primarily landing on beaches, sand, etc.they work fine-lots of floatation. And, they are not very flexible in the sidewalls. As in REAL heavy, even after you get someone to scrub most of the rubber off them. If so, those tires hold up VERY well.after all, they are commonly used on 12,000 pound airplanes, and probably some larger than that Are you referring to the 29 X 10 X 11 tires that require either new wheels from ABW or wheel adaptors from Gar Aero, or whatever they call themselves now?
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