Willys Jeep Military Tires

[chugdugdadug]

Two questions:

1. Has anyone used the stock tires from the hasbro jeeps, and if so, what do you have to say about them. I thought about cutting down the wheel and shaving off some rubber in the tire, as well as adapting a 12mm hex to the inside of the wheel.

2. Has anyone used the rc4wd DUKW 1.9 Military tires on a 1/6 willys build? They are 3/8" smaller in diameter than the GI Joe tires so I figured it might look a little weird. Just curious.

Any pictures would be appreciated, as well.

[Big Mike]

Early 2000's Hasbro tires are a lot softer than I thought they would be. If you could flip the stock tire inside-out and thin the carcass some, they would probably work halfway decently. They might be decent without any modding, after all the 1:1 version ain't exactly designed to deform around terrain features a whole lot.

The wheels also have a large rib in the center, simply removing this rib will allow the tire to compress. This would be a childs-play mod that would probably yield good results. Installing hexes in the stock wheels is another basic mod that should be pretty easy to accomplish.

I have thought a lot about 1.9 wheels on my 1/6th Jeep, but there are just not any tires available that are tall enough. If you don't use the stock wheels you're probably going to end up using 2.2's...

[chugdugdadug]

Yeah, that all makes sense. Too bad they haven't made the DUKW Military tires in 2.2 with some more height as well, maybe some day... As for the stock tires, I think I'm just going to go with those since they look good, and like you say about the 1:1 tires it's very true, they weren't made to wrap around rocks and have immense surface area, and I'm ok with that. The tall and narrow is what I'm going for. I removed the rib on the wheel so far, and got a tire flipped inside out, they are pretty thick so I will end up shaving off some rubber.