My buddy wants so know if he could run 35's on his stock c8.25 and d30?

 

Hahahaha
.....no

 

What does he need to do for mall crawlin?
Just everyday driving and a little mud.

 

Just leave it stock. Remove the rear swaybar and get a set of discos for the front.......Learn to drive and see what it will handle. Some people would be amazed at what a stock xj will do.

 

He has 33's now and a 3" lift. He just wants to know what he has to do the axle and or gears.

 

Yeah you can. My friend is proof. YouTube xjseth

It's the holy cross vid

 

Unlocked? Yeah, but with stock gears it will suck ***. Locked? I'd at least put chromos in the front.

 

LOL That's awesome. Give me a little more comfort with my plans. :P

 

I am running 34x10.50 super swampers with 4.10s and a lockrite in the rear. So far so good.

 

Yes, but regearing will get him back into the stock power band.

 

Well yeah, for a little while. Thats fine. At some point something will give. most likley a shaft. You could put 40's on any axle. under hard enough use something will break. On a stock XJ drive train, 33's is the most I would run......being the fact that I drive too and from the trail.

 

ODgreen89on35s isn't having too much trouble...he's basically locked front and rear.

He's broken things, but you can brake the same things he broke on a stock setup if you really want to.

Its all in how you drive.

 

Yes you can. However it's really not recommended.

If you're going to be heavy on trails and anything that's going to put a lot of extraneous stress on the axles, a Dana 30 probably isn't what you want up front. The Chrysler 8.25 is a good axle, so I wouldn't worry about that one too much.

You also should (but don't have to) regear. You will lose a lot of your torque and power if you leave it at the stock gears. Note that upgrading the gears will reduce your top speed and therefore bottleneck you on certain highways.

Unless there is some reason that you need 35's, a Jeep doesn't need anything much larger than 33's.

 

To a certain point the larger diameter tires will help with that.