I just needed to share a picture of my Avalanche on the beach! I had a blast and look forward to some more deep sanding. Just need better tires the the stock Wranglers!!!
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Orange on the Beach!
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GREAT PICTURE! Where was it taken?
Butch
Butch
Z66 BUTCH said:
It was on Ocracoke, NC which is part of the Outer Banx islands! It was awesome, I did not deflate the tires down because of the lack of an air pump! It was a great time though and the Avalanche handled it like ti was made for this! Like I said would like to get a better tire and will make sure to through a small air pump in the Avalanche for next time!!
A trick I have used in the past is to over inflate your spare and make up a air hose, then use it to transfer air from the spare into other tires. You might not have enough air for all 4 tires this way......it is a lot faster than those little air pumps. You can also buy a air tank for very little$$ and fill it before you go to the beach, again its a ton faster than those pumps.
Butch
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bigdaddy
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My wife and I went down to the outer banks back the first week of june and did the same thing... no need to air down the tires as the weight of the truck helped with traction. Airing down the tire works for trucks with no weight in the back, but we had no problem drove all the way to the virginia line and back, truck did fantastic.
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Those goodyears are good in mud or snow...I have Michelins LTX M/S on mine and had no problems in the sand, tires just kind of floated on top of the sand 
Another trick for a cheap air tank is that they make converters for used propane tanks. After you're done grilling you can remove the cap, empty it out, place the new cap on and you've got an air tank instead.Z66 BUTCH said:
look's great out on the beach. The orange looks good with the sea as a background.
I went on a jeep rally back in June. One of the guides used a Co2 tank (looks like a small scuba diving tank) to fill his tires with.
He has 36" SuperSwampers so a pump would have taken all day.
The Co2 filled up all 4 tires VERY quickly, then he moved around filling other tires.
Thought it was a cool idea.
Are there any negative points to usiing Co2 to fill your tires?
I did notice that after he filled about 12-14 tires the Co2 tank had ice/frost on it, and would work. He had to wait a few minutes for it to warm back up.
Rob
He has 36" SuperSwampers so a pump would have taken all day.
The Co2 filled up all 4 tires VERY quickly, then he moved around filling other tires.
Thought it was a cool idea.
Are there any negative points to usiing Co2 to fill your tires?
I did notice that after he filled about 12-14 tires the Co2 tank had ice/frost on it, and would work. He had to wait a few minutes for it to warm back up.
Rob
There shouldn't be any downside to using Co2 to fill your tires, or N2, He, or any other gas really as long as it isn't going to react with the inside of the tires or the rim. The only thing that you should watch out for if the bottle is icing up like you mentioned is that if it puts really cold air into your tires, that too will expand and increase the pressure as they warm up. But that should only really affect you if you are filling up a LOT of tires like the guy you mentioned did.Prince_FuFu said:
Well from playing paintball enough there would be a couple of things. CO2 loves to transfer liquad unless you place a filter on it. Yes this liquad would become gas quickley, but again can spike a tire pressure high. As for nitrogen, you have to keep that at a very high pressure to be useful, much easier to and cheeper to just used compressed air then either of the two.
My 2 Cents
Wvusquatch
My 2 Cents
Wvusquatch
Hey, what about filling the tires with helium before going on the sand. Wouldn't that help the truck float over the sand?
Just kidding
Just kidding
just got back from my second week this summer of serious beach / sand adventure (Nantucket Island out by Great Point and Coatue). As for airing down and the time spent on this chore, I used tire deflators from Oasis (http://www.oasisoffroad.com/) and man how easy that makes it, no wonder smart folks use these things - and they were accurate once I set them per instructions, promptly bringing me down to 12 on all four corners lickety split. You don't want to bang any ruts on hard pack trails at that pressure though.
Av did great, of course, impressing all the loads of friends and their sons I brought along on my excursions. Never got stuck, much to the chagrin of the younger boys, and I was in some really deep sh** quite often, signs posted warning of such - saw more than a few high end SUVs that figured "heck it's a $60,000 SUV with 4wd, it can go anywhere" that were stuck, seems to me it was all about ground clearence (or avoiding digging your tires in and creating a ground clearence issue). ahh, you can't buy smarts! (Me I would not take my BMV or Acura SUV in there, but hey, to each his own). Keep the local tow truck in business, I could get them unstuck but in most cases they needed to be extracted from the area, not just the one spot they were stuck in.
My only damage: the lower front piece of cladding on my GM bar is now firmly cracked right in the middle, banging again and again into the sand will do that to ya. My Av is a great all day at the beach rig, with the 110v ac plugs for whatever you need (including an air pump, but Nantucket has a nice air up station at the checkpoint), two batteries, radio playing all day long, etc. - only issue is potty breaks - I have not gotten the boater-style head unit yet!
Sorry, no pictures, just memories and a bunch of sand EVERYWHERE
Av did great, of course, impressing all the loads of friends and their sons I brought along on my excursions. Never got stuck, much to the chagrin of the younger boys, and I was in some really deep sh** quite often, signs posted warning of such - saw more than a few high end SUVs that figured "heck it's a $60,000 SUV with 4wd, it can go anywhere" that were stuck, seems to me it was all about ground clearence (or avoiding digging your tires in and creating a ground clearence issue). ahh, you can't buy smarts! (Me I would not take my BMV or Acura SUV in there, but hey, to each his own). Keep the local tow truck in business, I could get them unstuck but in most cases they needed to be extracted from the area, not just the one spot they were stuck in.
My only damage: the lower front piece of cladding on my GM bar is now firmly cracked right in the middle, banging again and again into the sand will do that to ya. My Av is a great all day at the beach rig, with the 110v ac plugs for whatever you need (including an air pump, but Nantucket has a nice air up station at the checkpoint), two batteries, radio playing all day long, etc. - only issue is potty breaks - I have not gotten the boater-style head unit yet!
Sorry, no pictures, just memories and a bunch of sand EVERYWHERE
Sounds like a great trip.jackalanche said:
What is this head unit you mentioned though?
A "head" is a boater term for a bathroom. I have owned boats in the past with a little self-contained head underneath a seat cuchion in the forward "cuddy" cabin. It struck me that I could, to keep the wife happy, bring along such a unit on a full day on a deserted strech of beach adveture, but I am not really serious.
Oh, duh! I'm familiar with nautical "heads" cept I was thinking electronics (radio) for some reason. Joking or not, sounds like a useful mod for someone travelling with the kids if you could get it to fit under one of the back seats. Not sure I would want someone using that inside the AV though, nor that it would have enough "volume" for what it's holding if it fit in that small of a space.jackalanche said: