33" Tires

[mdmarble]

Does anyone know how sluggish 33" tires would be with a stock diff? I think right now stock my tires are 27", but with a lift and all and 33" tires, how sluggish will I be? Could it even be too much stress and break something?

[97BlackBetty]

What motor do you have, what kind of trans, what are your stock gears? Will you be changing gear ratios? ... yadda yadda yadda

[Carlos Murphy]

My Ranger is a 88 2.9 auto with factory gearing and 33" Baja Claws. No worries off road, tires work great and haven't run out of horse power yet and haven't broken anything.... well, I DID brake a right front axle AND my T-case when I slid head-long into an erosion ditch that ran across the trail but on the whole I don't abuse it.

On the highway it's a bit lethargic, takes a while to get up to speed and seems to labor a bit.
I wouldn't use pure off road tires for every day driving because everything suffers, fuel mileage, tire ware, strain on the drive line and so on. Since my truck is mostly a toy and I don't drive it long distances (trailer it to far away trails) I have no problem with it.

[reno]

Mine has 33's (Uniroyal Laredos) on right now,V-6 5 speed 8.8 rear with locker, gets up and hauls ass with no problems. And yeah, try not to run mudders all the time, I have been looking a general purpose tire or at at least an A\T type tire to run during the week.

[ryan]

i ran 33s with 3.45s and with 3.73s. it sucked, sucked even more wheeling. too much momentum to overcome the lack of gearing

[Rembrandt]

i ran 33s with 3.45s and with 3.73s. it sucked, sucked even more wheeling. too much momentum to overcome the lack of gearing

That's how mine is right now with 3.73s. I can't touch 5th gear haha. Fixing to upgrade to 4.56s. I'm trying to find a ranger 8.8 to swap in but can't seem to find one anywhere round here :(

[mhughes165]

where are ya at, im in NJ and will elt one go for 100, has some pretty useless 3.27 or some shit gears though

[Rembrandt]

I'm in Georgia unfortunately. Otherwise I'd take ya up on that. I don't really care if I even find just a housing. Because I plan to replace all the internals, shafts included anyways.