RUSTYS
Well-Known Member
This must be a "sport" problem because I don't know anyone with a Rubicon who has said this. Also when I went from 37s to 38s I sold my 37s for what I paid for them but then again they were milestar Patagonias and that's the hottest tire on the market. I didn't regear until I went 38s. 37s and 4.10 are fine. Enjoy your Jeep it's nice.Good looking jeep...I have a similar setup and know of a few people on here who offroad and daily drive jlur's that regretted going from 35s to 37s and sold them at a sizeable loss to go back to 35s. It's not cool to admit in this thread, so you won't find them posting here. Their reasons were...37s made the jeep noticeably more sluggish during braking, acceleration, offroad down low power, lost top gearing on the hwy. They were going to spend another $3k on regearing/spare tire carrier and could run 90% of the trails on 35s that they were doing on 37s. All things considered, it wasn't worth the total cost to gain 1" of clearance with 37s.
I have a 6 speed, rubi axles/fenders on 315/70/17 KO2's and would eventually like more agressive, lighter weight 37s bc I bought a used honda accord daily driver and enjoy wheeling(like load d Yokohama G003 or km3)for another inch of clearance and to fill the fender gap. However, it's realistically going to cost $5k going to 37s bc I'd want to regear, upgrade tire carrier, get wheels with less backspacing + cost of 37" tires. I'd also be very tempted to get the AAL fender chop kit and upgrade tie rod/draglink. I'm still very tempted if I could somehow find a deal on used 37's and sell my ko2's.
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