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Yes, this is a bike channel and the next video will be bike-related.... But I don't discriminate. I love anything with wheels, including four-wheel drive trucks and pickups. In this video I chat about how I made the decision to switch from split rims (with inner tubes) to tubeless rims and tires on my 1997 Toyota Land Cruiser HJ45.
In the end it came down to safety, since we embarked on a 2 500 mile trip in the old Land Cruiser. We drove mostly on tarred highways, so tubeless tires just made more sense than the old tube-type tires on splitties.
For all the advantages and disadvantages of split rims with tube-type tires and tubeless tires on solid rims, check out: https://adventurebiketroop.com/tires
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In this video, I chat about why I chose tubeless tires for my 1977 Land Cruiser HA45 over the steel split rims
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Hi, I'm Franser from adventurebiketroop.com, where we are currently on an adventure, but not on a bike, in a troupie
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When I bought this Land Cruiser, this old 1977 Troopy It still had the steel, the split rims on it
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The original wheels And I love the look of it But since we were going to tour with it
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And we are currently on a trip We've done 2,000 kilometers already We are very far from home
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I had to decide, am I going to stick with the tubeless Or the tubed tires, the tubed steel split rims
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And just replace the tires Or am I gonna switch over to tubeless tires which meant changing over to aftermarket steel rims
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Now in the end I went for the steel rims But in this video, I'm gonna run through the pros and cons of each one and how I made my choice
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I don't usually drink on the job, but I am on holiday. So cheers
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Okay, so We're going to chat about the pros of the steel split rims first
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So number one, they are very hardy. They've got 12 ply tread and 8 ply sidewalls
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Where we come from, they're usually used by the large tourism industry to go on game drives
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in the bush. They go off the tracks into the felt through the thorns and rocks
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So they are very hardy. They don't tear easily. You don easily get flat wheels through punctures and the sidewalls are super strong and super stiff So that is a big pro And that is why they are used on these Land Cruisers
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And even the new some of the new pickups still come out with the steel split rims for that reason
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Then number two is you can fix them anyway, so Doesn't matter where you are someone will be able to take off and you can even do it yourself
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with practice, if you are careful, you can split the rim, that's why they call it splitty, and take
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out the tube inside, and then replace the tube, it's very cheap and easy, and you can find it at any
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tire shop in any small town, or if you can't find a tube, you can just patch the tube, so it's very
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easy to fix anywhere by almost anyone, so that is a big pro, and that's also why it's used where on
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farms and in the game industry or the lodge industry where they often do go
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off-road and get flat tires so they don't have to keep replacing or fixing
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or having fixed having the tubeless tires fixed they can just fix it
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themselves and patch the tube and then number three the look of it it's how the
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Land Cruiser came out so it looks original with the steel split rims and I
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I found that they are quite sought after so I could... I sold mine for more than what I paid for the new steel rims, tubeless rims
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So it worked out cheaper for me to put new tubeless tires on new tubeless rims instead of just putting on tubed outer tires on the old split rims
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But the look of it is a pro for me And it more original and it will mean that the car would probably be worth slightly more because of those steel rims But they were quite rustic Anyways let look at the pros for the tubeless rims tubeless tires The first thing is that you can plug it So you can just use
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normal tire plug repair kit, those sticky things that you stick into the hole. And this anyone can
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do. There's no danger. It's not difficult to do. It's not as a bigger job as splitting a split rim
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obviously if it's a sidewall tear you can't and plug it and then you'll have to
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put in a tube and then it's very difficult to take the tubeless tire off the rim it's near impossible for with normal tools and so but if it's just a
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normal puncture like a nail which is very common usually it's something like a
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rusted nail you can just plug the hole and carry on very easy number two they
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don't get hot as easily as a tubed tire so there's no chafing
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side where the tube can shave and if you run the pressure slightly lower and
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there's less chance of a blowout. Usually a tubeless tire won't just blow out it
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will get a slow puncture or some puncture and start leaking. It's not like a
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tubed tire where if it shaves and get hot enough it could just pop and blow out
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and cause a serious problem. So it is safer in my opinion. Number three the
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tubeless tires are quieter. There's a bigger range to choose from. So with the
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split rims, there's a very small selection of tubed outer tires which is
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quite hard. So they make a noise, the fuel consumption is more, it's more bumpy
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The tire pressure is much higher because of the tubes inside. So the tubeless
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is much quieter, more comfortable, the fuel consumption is better and there's a wider range of tires So I went for all purpose like a dual purpose tire Then number four you can deflate the tubeless tires way more than tube tires You can run a
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tube tire split rim flat. So if you're running in deep sand or corrugated roads
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where you want the softer tire or less gnarly ride, you can't deflate it. You have
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to run the hard tire because of that chafing and getting hard. So this is the
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tube-less tire you can run down to one bar and it should be fine. Then number
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five it's if you've seen just Google split trim fails and I never google
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anything with the name fail in it but just Google that and you'll never be
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able to unsee some of the accidents and once you know about it I am one of the
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people who just can't get that out of my mind and I'll worry every time I sit in
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front of that wheel taking it off or working on it and even in the booklet
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they say you have to deflate the tires even before you remove the rim from the
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studs. So once I've seen that warning I'll always worry about it. So yeah, and
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that's just me. So anyways, in the end I decided to go for the tubeless. It was an
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easy choice. I still think it looks alright and it feels quieter. The fuel
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consumption is not that bad. Incidentally our fuel consumption is 8.6 kilometers per liter which is not that bad for our 2,000 kilometers driving down
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here at 50-55 miles per hour. So I'm quite happy. Thank you for joining. If you have any questions
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if you disagree, if you have any other pros or cons on tubeless or split rims
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please leave me down in the comments and I'll see you next week
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