Re: tires verses gears
 

35's with 456 gears are perfect in My rig :)

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"Outatime" <WhoKnows@here.com> wrote in message
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> James Drinkwater wrote:
>
>> All things being equal, I'd go with the smaller tire if you don't
>> really need it. Of course, I just slapped on 35's and only need them to
>> correct a mistakenly low gearing. Now, I'm even more frustrated with
>> unsat braking.
>
> I would think that putting larger tires on and lowering the rear gearing
> would put a tremendous amount of stress on the axles. I have stock 30"
> tires and 3.73 gearing, and something tells me that the engineers matched
> axle torque capacity accordingly. 35's are huge! I'd bet that thing's a
> handful in heavy winds or when trying to brake it down.

Re: tires verses gears
 

35's with 456 gears are perfect in My rig :)

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"Outatime" <WhoKnows@here.com> wrote in message
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> James Drinkwater wrote:
>
>> All things being equal, I'd go with the smaller tire if you don't
>> really need it. Of course, I just slapped on 35's and only need them to
>> correct a mistakenly low gearing. Now, I'm even more frustrated with
>> unsat braking.
>
> I would think that putting larger tires on and lowering the rear gearing
> would put a tremendous amount of stress on the axles. I have stock 30"
> tires and 3.73 gearing, and something tells me that the engineers matched
> axle torque capacity accordingly. 35's are huge! I'd bet that thing's a
> handful in heavy winds or when trying to brake it down.

Re: tires verses gears
 

My first gear's 5.56:1... The brakes are 11" drums all around and, while
I could live in traffic starting in 2nd, my Jeep's relatively heavy and the
shoes are almost worthless:( Looking at a set of axles to swap, though.
Maybe Bill, Mike and some of the other "old timers" on the group will get
some relief from my annual posts about crappy brakes:)
Hoping to Pass the Torch,
Drink
"Jeeper" <abc@123.com> wrote in message
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> 35's with 456 gears are perfect in My rig :)
>
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>
> "Outatime" <WhoKnows@here.com> wrote in message
> news:npqdnT6gy7MG1_rYnZ2dnUVZ_uydnZ2d@softcom.net. ..
>> James Drinkwater wrote:
>>
>>> All things being equal, I'd go with the smaller tire if you don't
>>> really need it. Of course, I just slapped on 35's and only need them to
>>> correct a mistakenly low gearing. Now, I'm even more frustrated with
>>> unsat braking.
>>
>> I would think that putting larger tires on and lowering the rear gearing
>> would put a tremendous amount of stress on the axles. I have stock 30"
>> tires and 3.73 gearing, and something tells me that the engineers matched
>> axle torque capacity accordingly. 35's are huge! I'd bet that thing's a
>> handful in heavy winds or when trying to brake it down.
>
>

Re: tires verses gears
 

My first gear's 5.56:1... The brakes are 11" drums all around and, while
I could live in traffic starting in 2nd, my Jeep's relatively heavy and the
shoes are almost worthless:( Looking at a set of axles to swap, though.
Maybe Bill, Mike and some of the other "old timers" on the group will get
some relief from my annual posts about crappy brakes:)
Hoping to Pass the Torch,
Drink
"Jeeper" <abc@123.com> wrote in message
news:eQI9h.6152$yf7.1516@newssvr21.news.prodigy.ne t...
> 35's with 456 gears are perfect in My rig :)
>
> --
>
> "Outatime" <WhoKnows@here.com> wrote in message
> news:npqdnT6gy7MG1_rYnZ2dnUVZ_uydnZ2d@softcom.net. ..
>> James Drinkwater wrote:
>>
>>> All things being equal, I'd go with the smaller tire if you don't
>>> really need it. Of course, I just slapped on 35's and only need them to
>>> correct a mistakenly low gearing. Now, I'm even more frustrated with
>>> unsat braking.
>>
>> I would think that putting larger tires on and lowering the rear gearing
>> would put a tremendous amount of stress on the axles. I have stock 30"
>> tires and 3.73 gearing, and something tells me that the engineers matched
>> axle torque capacity accordingly. 35's are huge! I'd bet that thing's a
>> handful in heavy winds or when trying to brake it down.
>
>

Re: tires verses gears
 

My first gear's 5.56:1... The brakes are 11" drums all around and, while
I could live in traffic starting in 2nd, my Jeep's relatively heavy and the
shoes are almost worthless:( Looking at a set of axles to swap, though.
Maybe Bill, Mike and some of the other "old timers" on the group will get
some relief from my annual posts about crappy brakes:)
Hoping to Pass the Torch,
Drink
"Jeeper" <abc@123.com> wrote in message
news:eQI9h.6152$yf7.1516@newssvr21.news.prodigy.ne t...
> 35's with 456 gears are perfect in My rig :)
>
> --
>
> "Outatime" <WhoKnows@here.com> wrote in message
> news:npqdnT6gy7MG1_rYnZ2dnUVZ_uydnZ2d@softcom.net. ..
>> James Drinkwater wrote:
>>
>>> All things being equal, I'd go with the smaller tire if you don't
>>> really need it. Of course, I just slapped on 35's and only need them to
>>> correct a mistakenly low gearing. Now, I'm even more frustrated with
>>> unsat braking.
>>
>> I would think that putting larger tires on and lowering the rear gearing
>> would put a tremendous amount of stress on the axles. I have stock 30"
>> tires and 3.73 gearing, and something tells me that the engineers matched
>> axle torque capacity accordingly. 35's are huge! I'd bet that thing's a
>> handful in heavy winds or when trying to brake it down.
>
>