Video on trimming to fit 35s
Rock Crawling
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Question for everyone upsizing the OEM Tire diameter.
Obviously this throws off the speedometer. Which can be left as is or can be corrected as I understand it with like the Gap IID Tool.
My question though, is how does it affect driveability? I recall a friend who had a Jeep Wrangler and he went to 35s on it (maybe 37s? I can't recall) - but he mentioned that it drove like crap after that. Which is (in fairness) to be expected to some extent. I recall talking to him about how it effectively affected the gearing since the rotation of the wheels/tires were now different than the expectations the engineers built in for the trans/diffs gear sets used.
So the quesiton here is, how does it affect things like acceleration? added wear on trans/gearing? Or does the inherently different drivetrain of a Defender (vs something like a Wrangler) - make this a non issue?
Either way, thanks again for the video to show whats required here.
My intention is to go from Factory:
275 / 45 / 22 AKA31.7 x 10.8 x 22. AKA32 x 11 x 22
to:
285 / 50 / 22 AKA33.2 x 11.2 x 22. AKA 33 x 11 x 22
Ultimately in my case I'm sure going to 33's won't require nearly as much trimming.
Obviously this throws off the speedometer. Which can be left as is or can be corrected as I understand it with like the Gap IID Tool.
My question though, is how does it affect driveability? I recall a friend who had a Jeep Wrangler and he went to 35s on it (maybe 37s? I can't recall) - but he mentioned that it drove like crap after that. Which is (in fairness) to be expected to some extent. I recall talking to him about how it effectively affected the gearing since the rotation of the wheels/tires were now different than the expectations the engineers built in for the trans/diffs gear sets used.
So the quesiton here is, how does it affect things like acceleration? added wear on trans/gearing? Or does the inherently different drivetrain of a Defender (vs something like a Wrangler) - make this a non issue?
Either way, thanks again for the video to show whats required here.
My intention is to go from Factory:
275 / 45 / 22 AKA31.7 x 10.8 x 22. AKA32 x 11 x 22
to:
285 / 50 / 22 AKA33.2 x 11.2 x 22. AKA 33 x 11 x 22
Ultimately in my case I'm sure going to 33's won't require nearly as much trimming.
Question for everyone upsizing the OEM Tire diameter.
Obviously this throws off the speedometer. Which can be left as is or can be corrected as I understand it with like the Gap IID Tool.
My question though, is how does it affect driveability? I recall a friend who had a Jeep Wrangler and he went to 35s on it (maybe 37s? I can't recall) - but he mentioned that it drove like crap after that. Which is (in fairness) to be expected to some extent. I recall talking to him about how it effectively affected the gearing since the rotation of the wheels/tires were now different than the expectations the engineers built in for the trans/diffs gear sets used.
So the quesiton here is, how does it affect things like acceleration? added wear on trans/gearing? Or does the inherently different drivetrain of a Defender (vs something like a Wrangler) - make this a non issue?
Either way, thanks again for the video to show whats required here.
My intention is to go from Factory:
275 / 45 / 22 AKA31.7 x 10.8 x 22. AKA32 x 11 x 22
to:
285 / 50 / 22 AKA33.2 x 11.2 x 22. AKA 33 x 11 x 22
Ultimately in my case I'm sure going to 33's won't require nearly as much trimming.
Obviously this throws off the speedometer. Which can be left as is or can be corrected as I understand it with like the Gap IID Tool.
My question though, is how does it affect driveability? I recall a friend who had a Jeep Wrangler and he went to 35s on it (maybe 37s? I can't recall) - but he mentioned that it drove like crap after that. Which is (in fairness) to be expected to some extent. I recall talking to him about how it effectively affected the gearing since the rotation of the wheels/tires were now different than the expectations the engineers built in for the trans/diffs gear sets used.
So the quesiton here is, how does it affect things like acceleration? added wear on trans/gearing? Or does the inherently different drivetrain of a Defender (vs something like a Wrangler) - make this a non issue?
Either way, thanks again for the video to show whats required here.
My intention is to go from Factory:
275 / 45 / 22 AKA31.7 x 10.8 x 22. AKA32 x 11 x 22
to:
285 / 50 / 22 AKA33.2 x 11.2 x 22. AKA 33 x 11 x 22
Ultimately in my case I'm sure going to 33's won't require nearly as much trimming.
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