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I ran 35s on 3.55 for over a year with zero problems? Drove on the freeway doing 75mph nicely, & it didn't take forever to get up to speed either..Sure it wasn't a race car, but its a damn jeep, drove just fine, I have a trans temp gauge never over heated
Your butt dyno needs calibration, or perhaps there is an LS1 under the hood, or maybe you live in an area that has half gravity.
oh believe me I know gears are necessary, like I said they'll happen. but the op wanted the cheapest route to go 35s. jumping into gears and lockers, that isn't cheap. I said you can do it and it's not bad, I daily mine and go through about a tank a week going to school and work.
oh believe me I know gears are necessary, like I said they'll happen. but the op wanted the cheapest route to go 35s. jumping into gears and lockers, that isn't cheap. I said you can do it and it's not bad, I daily mine and go through about a tank a week going to school and work.
You must not drive far I go through that in 3 days between home and work.
You must not drive far I go through that in 3 days between home and work.
drive all around the city. that being said our city is the largest population wise but everything is pretty close. better reference would be, on one tank a can drive 40 min to our wheeling spot wheel all day and come back with about a half a tank
I ran 35s on 3.55 for over a year with zero problems? Drove on the freeway doing 75mph nicely, & it didn't take forever to get up to speed either..Sure it wasn't a race car, but its a damn jeep, drove just fine, I have a trans temp gauge never over heated...so, sorry yours was such a turd on 33s, fred, & please stop bragging how you have $5k worth of rustys crap on your jeep, no buddy cares..
Your statement speaks volumes for itself no comment needed......You my friend are afflicted with the one thing that can NOT be fixed!!
I've been running 35s with 3.55s, 6" of lift and stock steering (I know, I know) for about a year now. Sure, I get where I need to go, but it downright sucks and I would also say it's somewhat dangerous because of terrible stopping distance, steering angles that are all muffed up, and it can't get out of its own way.
Now that I'm living at school I drive quite a bit of highway. It will do 85 but it hates it. I can cruise at about 65 in OD but that also sucks because it's around 1500 rpms which isn't enough to keep it going. Any slight hill and its downshifting to 2nd and screaming at 3k+ rpms just to hold its speed.
Damn how I wish I had jeep funds. To safely DD 35s I feel as if I NEED rear discs and WJ knuckles for big brakes and crossover steering. To comfortably DD 35s I need gears, but don't want to do gears unless I can do lockers at the same time. So there's like $3,000 that you probably weren't thinking of, OP.
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I've been running 35s with 3.55s, 6" of lift and stock steering (I know, I know) for about a year now. Sure, I get where I need to go, but it downright sucks and I would also say it's somewhat dangerous because of terrible stopping distance, steering angles that are all muffed up, and it can't get out of its own way. Now that I'm living at school I drive quite a bit of highway. It will do 85 but it hates it. I can cruise at about 65 in OD but that also sucks because it's around 1500 rpms which isn't enough to keep it going. Any slight hill and its downshifting to 2nd and screaming at 3k+ rpms just to hold its speed. Damn how I wish I had jeep funds. To safely DD 35s I feel as if I NEED rear discs and WJ knuckles for big brakes and crossover steering. To comfortably DD 35s I need gears, but don't want to do gears unless I can do lockers at the same time. So there's like $3,000 that you probably weren't thinking of, OP.
have you installed the appropriate speedo gear for your tire size? Just wondering because "65" with the factory speedo gear is definitely faster than 65...
I've been running 35s with 3.55s, 6" of lift and stock steering (I know, I know) for about a year now. Sure, I get where I need to go, but it downright sucks and I would also say it's somewhat dangerous because of terrible stopping distance, steering angles that are all muffed up, and it can't get out of its own way.
Now that I'm living at school I drive quite a bit of highway. It will do 85 but it hates it. I can cruise at about 65 in OD but that also sucks because it's around 1500 rpms which isn't enough to keep it going. Any slight hill and its downshifting to 2nd and screaming at 3k+ rpms just to hold its speed.
Damn how I wish I had jeep funds. To safely DD 35s I feel as if I NEED rear discs and WJ knuckles for big brakes and crossover steering. To comfortably DD 35s I need gears, but don't want to do gears unless I can do lockers at the same time. So there's like $3,000 that you probably weren't thinking of, OP.
See I went through all those steps except the gears, and they all happened before the 35's except for the disc breaks(I can lock up all 4 with no issue)
Originally Posted by SatiricalHen
have you installed the appropriate speedo gear for your tire size? Just wondering because "65" with the factory speedo gear is definitely faster than 65...
See thats what im saying, I have a factory speedo gear, if I'm cruising at 65 according to my speedo I'm passing everyone, going about fast lane speed(75) in town. So when I get it up to 75, I have to really be somewhere around 85-90. I guess im gonna have to make a friend follow me in a car to see how fast it really is.
Originally Posted by Turbo X_J
Why?
Because my city if full of rice rockets, he sat at the light reving the **** out of that fart can, nothing shows you how slow your car is like a 17 y.o. jeep keeping up with you.
See I went through all those steps except the gears, and they all happened before the 35's except for the disc breaks(I can lock up all 4 with no issue) See thats what im saying, I have a factory speedo gear, if I'm cruising at 65 according to my speedo I'm passing everyone, going about fast lane speed(75) in town. So when I get it up to 75, I have to really be somewhere around 85-90. I guess im gonna have to make a friend follow me in a car to see how fast it really is. Because my city if full of rice rockets, he sat at the light reving the **** out of that fart can, nothing shows you how slow your car is like a 17 y.o. jeep keeping up with you.
if you have a smart phone you can probably get a speedometer app. I have one on my iPhone and if you have a gps it tells the speed. Speedometers are only so correct because of tire size variations even among the same size tire. One 31 inch tire is 31 inches tall one is 30.5 all makes small differences in speedo accuracy.
have you installed the appropriate speedo gear for your tire size? Just wondering because "65" with the factory speedo gear is definitely faster than 65...
No, haven't done the speedo gear but have checked it with gps 70 on my speedo is actually 80.
if you have a smart phone you can probably get a speedometer app. I have one on my iPhone and if you have a gps it tells the speed. Speedometers are only so correct because of tire size variations even among the same size tire. One 31 inch tire is 31 inches tall one is 30.5 all makes small differences in speedo accuracy.
didn't think about that. just checked it. at 50 (on my jeep) GPS puts be at 59mph.
all you gotta do is cut off a bunch of metal lol. Im sitting at 3.5'' on 35s and only rub at full articulation(i did just push my axle forward to help this a lil) yes being undergeared kinda sucks, but in all reality I can do 70 on the freeway no problem and its still pretty peppy.
28/35 x 3.55 = 2.84:1....
28/35 x 4.56 = 3.64:1.....
Swap to 4.56:1 gears, your Jeep will be much happier and the transmission won't hate you for it.
