33x12.5 or 33x10.5
04-11-2012, 12:06 PM
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My lift will be here on Tuesday so in the mean time we have been doing fab work on the custom bumpers. I have my hack n tap from Iron Rock arriving end of next week too. Another question, if I put all this in and don't get my tires and wheels for about a week will that be okay? I currently have 30x950's on there right now. Might look dumb but I don't care about that for a couple weeks.
04-11-2012, 12:10 PM
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I'm getting pretty excited about this. I have all these damn kids that take up so much money! I've been saving money to do this for almost 2 years while replacing all the mechanical parts of this amazing like new 205,000 mile sexy beast! Every joint, seal, breaks, sensors, plug, wire, and fluid has been upgraded or replaced with the exception of the head gasket and front crank shaft seal! She and I are both ready! I am going to start my own thread to detail the build with pics too!
04-11-2012, 12:52 PM
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My lift will be here on Tuesday so in the mean time we have been doing fab work on the custom bumpers. I have my hack n tap from Iron Rock arriving end of next week too. Another question, if I put all this in and don't get my tires and wheels for about a week will that be okay? I currently have 30x950's on there right now. Might look dumb but I don't care about that for a couple weeks.
04-11-2012, 12:55 PM
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04-11-2012, 01:10 PM
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The good news for you is that the more numerically smaller I.E. 3.07 gears compared to say 4.56 gears, you are the more physically bigger the gear teeth are so you don't have any worries with breakage there. What you will need to be careful of is taking care of your clutch. I'm guessing that since you have 3.07 gears, that you have the 5-speed manual tranny. With the bigger rubber you will be slipping the clutch a bit to get her moving. The mismatch in tire size and gear ratio is much easier to live with when you have an auto tranny. Just do like Eric said. Don't be in a big hurry to get your Jeep moving and keep the slippage to a minimum and you will be fine til you can affard to swap your gears.
It's an auto
04-11-2012, 01:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Gee oh Dee
I've got 33x10.5s
04-11-2012, 03:55 PM
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I'm not sure where you got the gear information because I didn't put that up here. I don't know what is in there so I assume it's stock. I defer to your knowledge on what is likely in my diffs. I do know however, that I will be upgrading them next year.
04-11-2012, 04:59 PM
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I am putting in my 6.5 lift in 2 weekends but I noticed that the selection of tires seems better at 33x12.5 so can I successfully run these on my stock gears until next summer when I upgrade my gears? I am going to upgrade the gears for sure but it's not in the immediate budget so any advise or help would be appreciated. Thanks,
04-11-2012, 05:10 PM
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AH... that's cool. Probably good to have that period. Thanks guys. I seriously deliberated between 6.5 and 4.5 in lift forever and now I'm doing the same thing on tires. I guess I'll only really figure out what's best for my application by making a decision and going for it! Hence the reason my 6.5 kit will be here next Tuesday! lol
04-11-2012, 05:46 PM
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I went with 10.5 wide on a approximate 4.5" lift didn't change bump stops and it does rub when off road, on road it don't seem to rub even hitting bumps. I ran stock gears (3.07) for about a month and it did fine even wheeling just couldn't crawl at all.
If you go with 12.5 and want spacers I've got some from my Jeep I'd be willing to sell cheap.
If you go with 12.5 and want spacers I've got some from my Jeep I'd be willing to sell cheap.
04-11-2012, 06:16 PM
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No worries! Sounds good to me!