tyre pressure

That would be ok, especially if only going a few k's.
Your jeep is relatively light and the MTR's are a pretty stiff/strong tyre. On the sand you could probably go as low as 10lbs if you have to to extract oneself from the soft stuff. I run about 14 -15 lb and that gives me another 4 or 5 to let out if need be.

it pretty much comes down to speed and corners where you will coe unstuck with low tyre pressures. Like inthe previous post, you can get down to some reallylow pressures as long as you are driving in a straight line and not going too fast (too fast dpeends on how low you go) The issues at stake are the tryes will roll off the rim if you try and turn to hard for te pressure you are running.. eg at 10PSI. don't trun.. just drive out of bog ad inflate to say 15-20 PSI, then if youhave to tturn make them gentle and be aware that if the beach/dune is slopingthen you have even less turning ability before the weight of the vehicle on one side means you roll out of your tyres. The other factor is speed.. the softer the tyres, the more flexing they are doing.. the more flexingthey do, the more they heat p.. if you start driving along a for example a hrd beach at 80km at say 15PSI.. you are likely to blow a tyre (let alone what would happen if you tried to swerve for a creek wash out etc etc... ) FWIW the details you provided, say 18PSI at 40km/hr sounds like something I wouldn't have a problem doing, just no severe swerves/ driving across dunes...

jeepr
like Peter said above, will be no problems at all. If the sand is dry and soft, go lower until you find what works for you.

If you go lower than say 10psi, do not do any fast and aggressive turns, or you may pop your tyre from the rim.

Cheers

Stephen

As a rule of thumb- irrespective of vehicle/mass/tyre etc.- you should try to achieve a 'footprint' of about 300mm long in sand.
Then again- it could be a 'Jeep thing'....

It very much depends on the tyre size vs rim size
a 255/85 on a 6.5" rim will get problems at 18 psi even on a light vehicle a 285/70 on a 8" rim will handle it much better.
You did not mention your tyre size so all answers will be specualtions and mostly useless. And then again if you use beadlocks the scenario changes. Trial and error is one way to explore things ..

good luck
gmd

I go along with the 'you will be ok' crowd on here. As already mentioned the problems come with speed and hard turns. Also, the faster you go the more heat build up in the side wall as it flexes. This is one of the reasons you should reinflate on the hard top or keep your speed well down.

I have only ever had one experience with sand driving and nobody paid any attention to pressures at all. It was in late 1972 and early 73 on Stockton beach near Newcastle. I spent three months living and working there as part of an RAAF team that was clearing the top end of the beach of unexploded ammunition. We had two swb soft top three speed Cruisers that were stock standard except for smooth rounded looking tyres that had a couple of straight narrow groves around them. They could have been aircraft tyres for all I know. I don't remember what pressures were in them but they did not look underinflated.

The entire operation lasted for two years and those cars were driven regularly on the blacktop back to the base at Williamtown, they hit maximum speed along the sand near the water line countless times, they carried heaps of equipment plus six or seven men to every square inch of the sand hills during that period and were used as dune buggies on weekends. All of this was on the same pressures. I don't remember every having trouble with them and we never rolled one off a rim.

That was enough beach driving for me and I have never been near one since but, after that experience, if I did try it again I would be inclined to use near smooth and only just legal street tyres with factory recommended pressures.

Brian.

I reckon Jol Fleming has a pretty good handle on the issue of tyre pressures...........

Drive to conditions.

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"Use extreme caution when driving with partially deflated tyres. Traveling too fast while turning with deflated tyres you
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causing death, bodily injury and / or property damage. You are responsible for your own safety and the safety of
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Regards

Derek.