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Old 11-09-2012 | 12:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Jake1996D1
And he will still be able to get thru deeper ruts and over taller rocks than you because he has more axle clerance. I'd take more axle clerance over flex and turning radius.. Some day when you get big boy tires you'll under stand
The problem is he's going to chew up those pretty big boy tires by stuffing them into sheet metal. He'll definitely get through deeper mud. Taller rocks is questionable, though. Since he's got no flex he's going to get cross axled pretty easily. Oh wait, he welded his diff!!!! He'll get over that rock now.
 
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Old 11-09-2012 | 09:10 AM
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Originally Posted by fishEH
The problem is he's going to chew up those pretty big boy tires by stuffing them into sheet metal. He'll definitely get through deeper mud. Taller rocks is questionable, though. Since he's got no flex he's going to get cross axled pretty easily. Oh wait, he welded his diff!!!! He'll get over that rock now.
He already took it wheelin and it looks fine. Bigger tired in big rocks means you can take the easier line..
 
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Old 11-09-2012 | 10:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Jake1996D1
He already took it wheelin and it looks fine. Bigger tired in big rocks means you can take the easier line..
Obviously bigger tires play a huge part. But he doesn't have tires big enough to fully compensate for terrible articulation IMO. I ran my same tires with OME shocks with sway bars on, and run the same tires now with longer shocks and cones. The difference is night and day. I feel like I shouldn't have to tell you the difference good articulation makes.
I can tell you that all those times I got cross axled and couldn't go anywhere on my OME shocks, having 33" vs 32" tires wouldn't have made a difference. He just posted on Pirate and said his tires are rubbing all over the place. Go out and drop $1500 on tires and then be too cheap to spring for some spring spacers to keep your tires out of the sheet metal and protect your investment. I don't get it at all.
 
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Old 11-09-2012 | 11:10 AM
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Yea but rubbing can be fixed via trim trim. You've seen how much I've cut off my truck it makes my 35s look tiny and a 3" lift MORE than enough. 37s are next. I like his approach but yes articulation does help. I'd still rather have the smallest lift possible, huge tires and lockers than a big lift same size tires and articulation..
 
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Old 11-09-2012 | 11:28 AM
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Old 11-09-2012 | 02:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Jake1996D1
Yea but rubbing can be fixed via trim trim. You've seen how much I've cut off my truck it makes my 35s look tiny and a 3" lift MORE than enough. 37s are next. I like his approach but yes articulation does help. I'd still rather have the smallest lift possible, huge tires and lockers than a big lift same size tires and articulation..
Agreed. But he hasn't trimmed nearly enough to compensate for wide 33's and no lift.
 
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Old 11-09-2012 | 07:16 PM
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Agreed. But he hasn't trimmed nearly enough to compensate for wide 33's and no lift.
Sure he has you can see the tire stuffs decent in one of the pictures... it's still going to rub the inner fender well though..
 
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Old 11-09-2012 | 08:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Jake1996D1
Sure he has you can see the tire stuffs decent in one of the pictures... it's still going to rub the inner fender well though..
Haha! You've been in Iowa too long if you think this is stuffed.
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And even with my RockStar bumper and trimmed fenders I managed to bend a little sheet metal last month.
 
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Old 11-09-2012 | 08:43 PM
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There are streets in downtown Chicago that are worse than this LOL...

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Thats STUUUUUFFED!
 
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Old 11-10-2012 | 12:50 AM
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[QUOTE=DiscoBlanco;356158]There are streets in downtown Chicago that are worse than this LOL...

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This is stuffed.




Thats STUUUUUFFED!
RIGHT!!! Like you didnt copy my suspension set up... Look I can stuff a tiny tire too..



My point was... You can see from how far that tire is passed the lip of the fender it is going to stuff fine.
 


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