My Bronco 2

[4.0B2]

thanks for that.. good info to know

 

[4.0B2]

well.. $50 fill up today. gas was only $3.35 tho. kinda nice.
got 17.2 mpgs on that tank!! its going back up. the truck is running awesome, have you ever had it to where your truck was messing up then its fixed-- and when its fixed you just love driving and wanna keep driving around?? well that was me the last 2 days. lol

and i have decided that i want these http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires...QR6MCOWL&vehicleSearch=false&fromCompare1=yes after looking at them, and looking around.. and thinking.. and driving a rig w/ some on road and off. i simply love them!

 

[4.0B2]

but for the price of these
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires...ewall=Blackwall&partnum=525QR5WMTRK&tab=Sizes
i might chop fenders and make 35's fit!!!

 

[dangerranger83]

I just love how nice MT tires work off road and how they lookm. But now for my downsides that I have had wit them.....In the snow, got less traction due to they would actually dig in and throw the snow and in the rain my truck fish tails much easier and peels out too plus have fish tailed around corners a few times when I wasnt even trying. I wanna say that they actually have less surface contact with the road then normal tires. but what they have done is teach me how to drive smarter.

 

[4.0B2]

Well see- we don't get but maybe one snow of a few inches a year. And my truck has more weight over the rear axle. And te DC's have a nice thread life actually...

 

[kroussinoffroad]

a buddy of mine ran those on his tj in the 33'' flavor. he had a love-hate relationship whith them. never really went any further explaining it. never said he regretted buying them. he would allways talk about wanting to buy a set of highway tread tire's and then buy a set of tsl's

 

[4.0B2]

idk, i know a few people running them on jeeps that are driven on road. they don't complain.
but w/ 35 MTR's being cheaper...hmmmm lol. i wasn't planning on 35's yet tho. since i DD it i figured i'd stick w/ 33's

 

[kris97ranger]

Come on you know you want 35s.... Your going to anyways. Once you get sas'd your going to get into harder trails and want more tire. Then eventually swap out to a 44 feont and you would be set. Just stay on the 35s you already have and i bet you could go just about anywhere you want to

 

[4.0B2]

just go ahead and gear 4.88's and do 35's right? lol
skip the middle step of 33's

 

[kris97ranger]

Yup. Thats my thought anyways.... Look at kroussin it happened to him. Or have you already bought the gears?

 

[4.0B2]

no. i have 4.10's in the 8.8 i'm gonna put in. and run just 2wd 4.10's till i decide on tire/gear combo.. AND GET THE MONEY TOGETHER LOL

 

[dangerranger83]

Lowest gearing I would go with on your D30 would be 456.

How hard core of wheeling do you plan on doing anyways? I would just go 33's or you may have to end up cutting your fenders, and it looks like somebody put sometime into making it look good.

 

[4.0B2]

i'll probably stick w/ 33's. (in the DC's, i love those tires now, more than the MTR's) the reason i said 4.88's is the fact that they are cheaper... and its only a couple hundred RPM difference at 65 MPH's. still may go 4.56's. but i don't see where 4.88's would hurt anything much since i have an auto and i'm not sure if i'm gonna do the md05 swap or not.. not yet at least.

 

[kroussinoffroad]

i just skipped the step of regearing altogether. i mean really who need's a clutch? it smell's sooo good when it stat's gettin hot.

 

[4.0B2]

wonder how an a4ld would like that..
and the fact that the d30 is 3.55's and the 8.8 is 4.10's, it'll be fine right?? lol