33” Tires (and equivalents)

[JK13]

Are they the smallest of the “big tires”? Or the largest of the “little tires”?

Lets get some 4x4 chit chat going

 

[MuntCuffin]

I've always thought 35's were where tires were getting "big".

But current trucks leaving the lot are fitted with close to the metric equivalent.

33's are definitely biggest of the small tires.

 

[subybaja]

Baaack when I was a kid...and read Peterson's... 35s were the big boys.

 

[[486]]

I grew up as a middle class...

 

[MuntCuffin]

I grew up as a middle class...

 

[Wheelin66bronco]

 

[Wheelin66bronco]

When I was in high-school in the mid 90's, all the rich kids had 33's, and were all the envy of us poor kids.
First set of brand new tires I ever bought, when I built my 66 bronco were 35's.
Now those are small to me.
Biggest of littles.

 

[east_beast]

Just remember, damn near every trail out there has been ran by sprung over CJs on 33s with open diffs driven by somebody's uncle with a Busch Light on one hand and a Marlboro Red dangling from his lips

 

[Byro]

I thought I was hot shit when I got a set of 31’s for my Cherokee back in the day. 33s were like next level and the guys on 35s were king.

 

[east_beast]

I thought I was hot shit when I got a set of 31’s for my Cherokee back in the day. 33s were like next level and the guys on 35s were king.

Seriously. Anything >35 was basically a fucking monster truck. When I went from 35s to 38s on my CJ-7 I got asked daily if that thing was even street legal.

 

[Stingray]

I'll go back awhile, the 2wd 75 Chevy LUV I started in ( Because a Toyota was way out of the budget) best I could do was a set of Toyota take offs, that I think were 30's or 31's and we wheeled the piss out of that poor truck.

33's are the biggest of the smalls, 35's are the smallest of the bigs.

My Crawler is on 35's

My Daily Driver Sits on 37's

 

[Weasel]

well glad that's settled, shortest thread ever!

 

[east_beast]

33's are the biggest of the smalls, 35's are the smallest of the bigs.

Yep. 33s are the new 31s, 35s are the new 33s, 37s are the new 35s.

 

[east_beast]

Honestly, we're not far from 37s being the new 33s.

 

[Stingray]

Honestly, we're not far from 37s being the new 33s.

Guys are building what I would call brodozers on 37's and tow the fiver with them. And then complain about how it tows.

 

[the conservative atheist]

In high school you basically drove a monster truck if your S-10 had a 3" body lift and 31's.

 

[east_beast]

In high school you basically drove a monster truck if your S-10 had a 3" body lift and 31's.

A Toyota with cranked torsion bars running 32s was big time. If you had a legit lift running 33s that was a beast. Anything more than that was just absolutely extreme. You're crazy!

 

[Stingray]

A Toyota with cranked torsion bars running 32s was big time. If you had a legit lift running 33s that was a beast. Anything more than that was just absolutely extreme. You're crazy!

2wd
that was my Chevy I welded the rear.

 

[Stingray]

Downey off road and Charlie boondocker were local offroad shops.

 

[east_beast]

2wd
that was my Chevy I welded the rear.

Welded spiders was the norm. If you had a Lockright that was fancy shit. A Detroit? Holy fuck. That's crazy. ARB? MINDBLOWN

 

[Stingray]

Welded spiders was the norm. If you had a Lockright that was fancy shit. A Detroit? Holy fuck. That's crazy. ARB? MINDBLOWN

Any real locker was way out of my budget.

 

[Void_of_Light]

Seriously. Anything >35 was basically a fucking monster truck. When I went from 35s to 38s on my CJ-7 I got asked daily if that thing was even street legal.

My friend had a single cab step side OBS Chevy with a 6” lift and 35s. It was huge. That 4.3l hated life.

 

[Stingray]

Any real locker was way out of my budget.

The next rig was Monster truck status
79 Bronco 400CI.
12" Skyjacker, 4.56 gears Detroits front and rear sitting on 39" swampers
for the time.......... Monster truck status.
looking at what we were wearing you guess what year

 

[SKULLYOTA]

I'm a Samurai guy with Samurai axles so 33's are YUGE!

 

[smurfblue40]

👈🏻 33s on the Rubicon, no problem

 

[SLOWPOKE693]

My wife daily drives a JKUR on 37s and I'm about to pull the trigger on a set of 35" tires for my 100% stock SxS if that says anything.

My 22 F350 Dually runs the metric equivalent of a 33 x 10 x 17 so I'm voting biggest of the little tires.

37s are the new 33s and 40s are the new 35s.

 

[45acp]

Seriously. Anything >35 was basically a fucking monster truck. When I went from 35s to 38s on my CJ-7 I got asked daily if that thing was even street legal.

Early 90's, girl I went to HS with had a Toyota with 36" Ground Hawgs and too much lift... it was a monster truck.

I graduated in '93, and bought my dad's 88 gmc. Regular cab, long bed, 4.3 4spd. I cranked the torsion bars and threw blocks in the back and stuffed 33x12.50's under it. I was king shit because I had one of only 2 "lifted" gmt400's in town.

 

[husslr187]

when I had my cj7 33s were where parts start breaking regularly. I broke and upgraded shit until the left steering knuckle was the weak link. I got really good at steering it out of the woods with only the right front steering

 

[Scooter]

My mom's '92.5 Trooper came with 33s, her BIL thought she bought them aftermarket because "jap cars" don't come with wheels and tires that big.

 

[Arps]

X3 on 35's