Recent content by trucker_mike

Honestly I only did about a quarter of it since I was alone and didn't even have a jack or anything to change a tire 🤣. I don't mind going alone but I have a hard and fast rule about having stuff on the truck to make it home, especially since I had my pup with me in 105° heat out there.

Any Jeep clubs or off road clubs in the East valley? New to all this and looking to meet some people and enjoy the desert.

Decided to go have a little outing on Saturday. It was really interesting to see how much better this Jeep did than my old full size bronco. (It was a 1994 bronco). I didn't do much, just played a little to get a feel for the jeep but I was impressed. Can't wait to meet some local people and...

So I went with Black Rhino 17x8.5 rims 0 offset and 4.75" backspace. I mounted 35x10.5 predator tires. No rubbing so far. Drives great. Low road noise. I took it off-road for about 10 miles out in bulldog canyon recently and they did great. Plus I love the skinny tire look. The weight is...

Welcome. I'm in Az too. 👍🏻

Where did you get the terminals??

Dropped it off at the off-road shop to get the front end upgraded and a new front drive shaft. 😁

I appreciate that! I currently have 35's now but I hate the mall crawler 20" rims that came on it 🤣. After doing some math, it's looks like I already have 4:88 gears so I should be good there. I don't plan on going 37s until I upgrade the front axle to a 44.

I'm have a 3" Teraflex lift and I'm looking to change the wheels. I'm look at a set of 17x9's with a 0 offset and a 5" backspace. I'll be running 35x12.5 RT's Will this have any rubbing or issues?? I will eventually be running skinny 37's so I also want to make sure it will be enough for...

Yes I kinda thought the same but once I factored the tires being worn (the speedo is 2 mph off) I put 34" and got 4:88 but you may be right. Definitely could be 5:13. It's going to the shop beginning of March so I'll have them confirm.

Yea definitely. I'm just glad the PO actually did the swap! Now that one less thing I gotta do!

They definitely had to be swapped. I'm calculating 4:88's

So I'm trying to figure out my gear ratio 35x12.50 tires about half worn W5A580 transmission so 0.83 in 5th gear I'll add the picture of my speed and RPM at 70 MPH..... And go!

This is how I bought it so now I'm kinda going through and doing things the way I want. I tried looking for something stock but those have crazy amounts of miles on them. So I went with this 2015 with only 89k miles. Other than the 20" mall crawler rims, it's pretty much the height that I wanted.

I stopped by LetzRoll yesterday. I have an appointment to drop it off in a few weeks. They are going to upgrade the steering and front end stuff so I can get rid of the "boat" steering and also give my rig a "once over" to see what I'm up against. I'm planning on getting some different wheels...