dave_p
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- First Name
- Dave
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- El Cerrito, CA
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- 2021 JL 2-Door
Looks great! I am waiting on delivery of my first jeep and it's also a Rubi and I'm looking into a similar 35/no-lift setup. Does this logic make sense: If you go from 33's to 35's, the 35's are going to eat up one more inch under the fender, because the other inch of difference in tire size is on the ground side of the wheel. So the MOST flex you can lose is one inch, and that's if the stock Rubi was just about to rub at full flex. So then you have to figure that in stock form they leave a little bit of room -- they wouldn't set it up to rub, right? So that means you should lose LESS than one inch of flex, which can be cured with a bump-stop extension without much performance impact -- or you might lose no flex at all if jeep built in an inch of room stock. Is it this simple? I know I'm leaving out tire deflation but I doubt that impacts the top of the tire. Also - and this could be meaningful - with a fatter tire and a negative offset wheel would you be hitting the outside edge of the fender flare where it bends down? I could definitely see that being an issue if the tires are out far enough but I haven't been close enough to a JL to take a look. My setup (probably similar to yours) would push out the outer edge of the tire about 2.5". Is that where it would rub off-road?
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