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Slander said:
This is pretty accurate now. 37s on my Tacoma have the same vibe as when I had 33s on my yj back in the early 2000s:laughing:. It's a weird tire size, makes the easy trails waaaaay to easy, and it's a struggle bus on the hard stuff around here.

I blame jeep fags on 40+ tires aired down to 25psi flooring it on every obstacle and rutting everything out.
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My crawler was built 10 years ago and its on 35's and wheels good, I just get to work a little harder, the black daily on 37's was 3 years ago. and it would look like I skipped leg day if it was on 35's:laughing:

I'll agree a new jeep takes nothing to slap 37's under.
 
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Nvr-enough said:
With a factory 'package' for 37s now.

Hell my gladiator came stock with 285/75-17(33.8"). Jeep advertises them as fitting 35s. And 37s fit on the Mojave trim. Wild how much the tire game has changed in less than 20 years.
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They pay, and the buyer pays. That compensation package in total, with lift, tires and square box shape is probably worth 4 or 5 mpg. Savage Prius :flipoff2:
 
My daily is sitting on 32.71 4 1 5 9 2 6 5" tires at the moment.

Been thinking a lot about the tire size thing lately and I think I could have a pretty good time in a wheeler with 35s and little axles. Bet I could run a lot of the trails I do on 40s and tons, and be in it for less money too. I like the idea of a lot less unspring weight for doing fun fast desert stuff too.

Gregj50!!!!! said:
How much lift do I need to fit 35’s on my TJ?????
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Back in the day my dad and I had matching TJs with a 3" lift on 33s, a detroit out back, and some 4.56 gears. At the time I was doing that, a lot of shops were telling me I'd need a waaay bigger lift for 33s and funnily enough telling me I should go 4.11s or my jeep would be impossible to drive on the street. I wanted low jeep, big tires, and low gears. There was no internet to ask, and all the crusty dudes I talked to who were into jeeps all had CJs, so I just rolled the dice and it worked. I really wanted 35s, but that was hard core crawler or rich people stuff then.

Fast forward and my jeep has been sold to a buddy, my dad gave me his jeep to look after before he passed away and I was staring at some rotted 33s on it thinking I was going to buy new tires. Figured I'd swap in 35s, if/when stuff rubbed, I'd spend a weekend highlining the fenders, then down the road get some lower gears to make it driveable again. Well damn if those 35s didn't fit perfect with minimal rubbing on 23 year old saggy 3" lift springs. Tried to flex it out as hard as I could to find some rubbage- nope. Fit perfect. It drives great with the gearing too. If 18 year old me only knew all this time I could have just thrown some 35s on there, I would have been the coolest peanut in the turd in 1998. Damn it.

Pics because fun.
On 33s back in the day with my dumb friends:
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Same damn jeep on 35s. No other changes.

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Also that picture reminds me that I was having some pretty good fun on 33s with an open front diff.
 
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Slander said:
This is pretty accurate now. 37s on my Tacoma have the same vibe as when I had 33s on my yj back in the early 2000s:laughing:. It's a weird tire size, makes the easy trails waaaaay to easy, and it's a struggle bus on the hard stuff around here.

I blame jeep fags on 40+ tires aired down to 25psi flooring it on every obstacle and rutting everything out.
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Yeah, that's the way I felt around here back into he day with my built CJ. I had Chevy 350 and locked Scout axles on 35s and everything around here was a cakewalk so I was like fuck it, I'm just gonna go to 38s and build for Tellico and they immediately shutdown Tellico as soon as I went to 38s. The 38s never saw Tellico dirt. :laughing:
 
There was also a guy in fullerton that did lifts and diffs and the guy in Azusa that built 205's and also built diffs.

80-85 time frame.

Stingray said:
Downey off road and Charlie boondocker were local offroad shops.
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Fuck..... I am sticking to my 33"'s .... GF has 35" on her Jeep; it can be a fucking bitch to stop. (All our Jeep are TJ's).
Noiw that I am 72; hard-core shit is behind me.
 
east_beast said:
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
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It was a Pepsi and I don't smoke; '81 CJ-5 with a 1.5" "add-a-leaf" lift on 31" tires, limited slip F&R. I did end up going with Detroit lockers (rear first, then front about a year later), but never ran a tire bigger than 31's on it. 2JZ might remember that Jeep, he rode with me on Lower Terminator in Az back in the late 90's on a night run, holding into the grab bar & trying not to spill his drink on White-Line. The front shocks on that Jeep had 8.5" of travel; I think it scored a low 700 on a 23-degree ramp.

My next Jeep was a CJ-7 with 33's though, same stupid short shocks.

The 37's on my LJ were great, but 37's on my JKU seem small.
 
Running 35's on both my Gladiator and Wrangler Rubicons. Thinking of a small lift and 37's on the Wrangler.

Going from 33 to 35 on the Gladiator helped a lot, got through some sections that I scraped on the first time I wheeled it on 33's.
 
MChat said:
It was a Pepsi and I don't smoke; '81 CJ-5 with a 1.5" "add-a-leaf" lift on 31" tires, limited slip F&R. I did end up going with Detroit lockers (rear first, then front about a year later), but never ran a tire bigger than 31's on it. 2JZ might remember that Jeep, he rode with me on Lower Terminator in Az back in the late 90's on a night run, holding into the grab bar & trying not to spill his drink on White-Line. The front shocks on that Jeep had 8.5" of travel; I think it scored a low 700 on a 23-degree ramp.

My next Jeep was a CJ-7 with 33's though, same stupid short shocks.

The 37's on my LJ were great, but 37's on my JKU seem small.
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Yeah, that's definitely a factor. Most of these vehicles today are a lot bigger and require more tire to achieve the same effect.
 
We give a buddy of mine a bunch of crap for once saying “32’s are all you’ll ever need.”

He was on 38.5’s a year later.

I have two trucks on 37+, two on 35’s and two on (metric) 33’s now :Homer:
 
SLOWPOKE693 said:
That must be an automatic transmission thing because no Jeep I've ever owned was hard to stop with oversize tires. I've also never owned anything but manual transmission Jeeps so maybe that's it.
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My LJ was built when 15’s were still a thing. 1 tons but with GM 1/2 ton brakes and 5 on 5 1/2 lug pattern so “easy to find” 15” wheels would fit over the brakes. It’s an auto and with the vacuum booster it was unacceptable with 37’s on it. The fix was Vanco Hydroboost and now it stops 40’s like nothing with the same GM brakes all the way around.

It has never had a 15” wheel bolted onto those axles because everything went 17’s :laughing:. 17’s were common at the time. Dumbest parts of the build were 14 bolt outers in anything other than 8 on 6 1/2 bolt pattern. And the GM 1/2 ton calipers on ford rotors.
 
MigGunslinger said:
I still run them cause 1/2 ton brakes and a 35” tire is way cheaper in 15” vs 17” rims. At least they were the last few times I looked.
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Yea, usually load C in the 15" and load D or E in the 17". More sidewall squishyness at trail pressure in the 15" which is better... but a tougher carcass in the 17" which is better.
 
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