8.00x6 Tires
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dermothalcyon
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8.00x6 Tires
I am having problems finding tires in stock. I currently run Goodyear Flight Special II 8.00x6. I cannot find these anywhere within any reasonable timeframe. I am considering AirHawk or Michelin Condors. Does anyone have experience with these or have suggestions for others?
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GAHorn
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Re: 8.00x6 Tires
AirHawks have never given me any trouble (on my other airplanes…never used them on the 170).
Michelin Condors sometimes have been critiqued as contacting the brake assy’s due to “oversized”. This critique was at least ten years ago and may have been corrected, and may also have been on a non-std airplane. (Just because an owner finds his/her airplane in a particular-configurations,…doesn’t mean it wasn’t modified and never recorded….yet many owners of modified airplanes believe their configuration is original simply because there’s no record of the mod, or They have not made that mod. That is a false-assumption.)
Michelin Condors sometimes have been critiqued as contacting the brake assy’s due to “oversized”. This critique was at least ten years ago and may have been corrected, and may also have been on a non-std airplane. (Just because an owner finds his/her airplane in a particular-configurations,…doesn’t mean it wasn’t modified and never recorded….yet many owners of modified airplanes believe their configuration is original simply because there’s no record of the mod, or They have not made that mod. That is a false-assumption.)
'53 B-model N146YS SN:25713
50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention.
An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons.
50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention.
An originality nut (mostly) for the right reasons.
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DaveF
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Re: 8.00x6 Tires
Very satisfied with Air Trac 8.00x6 4-ply.
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