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lil_Blue_Ford
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- Joined
- Aug 6, 2007
- Messages
- 10,675
- City
- Butler
- State - Country
- PA - USA
- Vehicle Year
- 2000
- Vehicle
- Ford Ranger
- Engine
- 5.0
- Transmission
- Automatic
- Total Drop
- 4”
31's should fit just fine stock.
Pre-98's you can do a 2" budget boost for under $100 plus the cost of an alignment. That would either give you a lil more breathing room with the 31's or allow you to fit 32's.
Lockers or limited slips can help, but cost can sometimes be a downside.
BFG AT's are overrated.
If you don't care about how fast a tire wears out and want great traction, get a mud terrain or Swamper.
If you want something that will bite but last awhile on the street, get the most aggressive (read the baddest looking AT with the biggest gaps between tread blocks, preferably factory siped) AT you can find.
Last time around on my Ranger I got some Sport King Steel Radial AT's and loved 'em. Looked sorta like a mud terrain but the tread blocks were a lil closer together than a true mud an not as deep. But they got me ~50k miles and performed awesome in snow, ice, mud, etc. Even with an open diff they more often than not got me where I wanted to go and beyond. But I threw a set of muds on mine when it got bad and had a set of chains too. FWIW I ran 235/75/15's.
Pre-98's you can do a 2" budget boost for under $100 plus the cost of an alignment. That would either give you a lil more breathing room with the 31's or allow you to fit 32's.
Lockers or limited slips can help, but cost can sometimes be a downside.
BFG AT's are overrated.
If you don't care about how fast a tire wears out and want great traction, get a mud terrain or Swamper.
If you want something that will bite but last awhile on the street, get the most aggressive (read the baddest looking AT with the biggest gaps between tread blocks, preferably factory siped) AT you can find.
Last time around on my Ranger I got some Sport King Steel Radial AT's and loved 'em. Looked sorta like a mud terrain but the tread blocks were a lil closer together than a true mud an not as deep. But they got me ~50k miles and performed awesome in snow, ice, mud, etc. Even with an open diff they more often than not got me where I wanted to go and beyond. But I threw a set of muds on mine when it got bad and had a set of chains too. FWIW I ran 235/75/15's.
