Homemade studded snow tires.

[DieselTech]

Do you guys & gals think a person could make a set a studded snow tires?

Hear me out. & I will try to explain!

If I took these 20x4 & added some pan head screws from the inside out & then put a Mr.Tuffy tire liner in with a heavy duty tube. Is it plausible? I cant see why not!

Heres a couple pics of the tires I got to sacrifice & the screws I would use. I plan on having the screws come thru the center of the tire knobby.

Let me hear the do & donts!!!

 

[Amwicr]

Might the screw be pressed back thru the tire? They seem kinda long & pointy for this. But I have no experience.

 

[DieselTech]

Might the screw be pressed back thru the tire? They seem kinda long & pointy for this. But I have no experience.

Well if my figures are right, from the inside of the tire to the top of a tire knobby is 3/8". Them screws are 1/2" which should leave a 1/8" long snow stud. I can always hit the screw with a 4" grinder & flap disc if needed.

With the head of the screw on the inside of the tire with a tire liner, I dont see them pressing or poking back thru.

But I may be wrong.

 

[Amwicr]

Well if my figures are right, from the inside of the tire to the top of a tire knobby is 3/8". Them screws are 1/2" which should leave a 1/8" long snow stud. I can always hit the screw with a 4" grinder & flap disc if needed.

With the head of the screw on the inside of the tire with a tire liner, I dont see them pressing or poking back thru.

But I may be wrong.

That's true

 

[GW's Motorized]

Might the screw be pressed back thru the tire? They seem kinda long & pointy for this. But I have no experience.

He uses the tannus armor liner i think

 

[robe]

Here you go.

The Pine Daigle | Ice Racing Tires & Accessories

The Pine Daigle | Ice Racing Tires & Accessories

lapinedaigle.com

When I was up north about 40 years ago guys would race on the frozen lakes. They would get hard compound knobbies and screw hundreds of 1/2 hex head sheet metal screws with about 5 per knob.

 

[robe]

Here's a vid.

 

[cloakedvillain]

Unless you're running extremely low pressures the fasteners should have no trouble saying tight against the tire. Say you inflate to 30 psi, the surface area will have 30 pounds of force for each square inch of the fastener, and the weight upon the tire will be spread out evenly among the contact patch
reducing how much force each individual fastener gets pushed by.

 

[markjs]

You could do it, and it will work, but don't forget how much traction studs lose when they hit clean pavement. Just ride careful with such a setup.

 

[robe]

You could do it, and it will work, but don't forget how much traction studs lose when they hit clean pavement. Just ride careful with such a setup.

You need to run exclusively on ice and compact snow. Dry pavement would be like on ice with regular tires.