well if you want the lowest point of the jeep (differentials) to be 2 3/4' off the ground you would need to run 78" tall tires

do it up

 

Now that would be a site....

 

and require a ladder

 

Illinois' law is a tad confusing. That link does fairly good job of putting the official numbers out there. But there is ALOT of confusion amoung the folks who actually enforce the law.

But what has been my experience and what a DOT officer told me, is that more often than not it turns out to be an "attitude" situation. You start getting one with the officer and all sorts of 'offical' violations start getting you tickets.

I live in a REALLY small town. I had an officer stop me once to tell me he liked my home-made tube doors and ask if I could make a set for his son's Jeep.

But there is a fellow Jeeper close-by who has recieved two tickets for illegal bumper height(he doesn't have one) But he has an attitude problem with most of the rest of the world, so I can only imagine his behavior when stopped by a cop.....

 

That is generally how things are around here...If you are cool with the cops they are generally fair to you and will let things slide more often then not..

 

Good luck and may I suggest a step ladder?

 

lol I need to post a pic of my neighbors truck...just about anyone would need a step ladder to get into it.....

 

Here's my neighbors beast...

 

If I were in the market for a HD truck, it would be a SD like that!! That thing is baddazz!!

 

Yeah a nice turbo diesel...Although I wouldn't ever drive it at $4.60 a gal for gas and he gets around 7 mpg...he has a big secondary fuel cell in the back that holds like 40 gals of fuel...I think he said he holds around 70 gals of gas total..It's a hell of a mid machine and river crawler but that's about it..He's gonna go with us on our next river run..

 

Looks more than capable. He should do fine. Hope you don't have to pull him out.

 

Well where we go if he needed to be pulled out chances are I'd need help as well..He goes to the big mud fest they have around here each year...It's fund to watch these big a$$ trucks go plowing through a field of mud..

 

I might would pull him out but I aint washin' it.

 

lol no doubt...my friends brother has a few big trucks as well and he'll be there..he's a nut has an S10 blazer with a chevy 400 in it...He works for Dana/Spicer and builds all his own chassy parts so he makes custom suspensions and what not..Some cool stuff he makes but his trucks are always kick **** till he breaks em ...lol