Help Tires too big for my drive train?
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- #1 - 1977 CJ-7 Renegade (Daisy Jane), Levis trim, 304, TH400, BW1339 (MM), D30/Auburn Max, AMC20/Trac-Lok/G2's, 4.88's, 33" BFG MT KM2's, Edelbrock Performer intake, Holley Sniper 4bbl EFI, MSD6, MSD ProBillet distributor, OME shocks, 4" ProComp lift.
#2 - 1984 CJ-7 Laredo (The Texas Hooker Project - Incomplete/Undecided)
Excellent advice... I agree with JR too, research everything. You'll end up re-researching things based on a new premise you learned from other research. They say the poor man pays twice. I'd say at least twice. I had 4.10 gears, thought I wanted better highway and went to 2.73's then decided I wanted the best of both so went to 3.54's then decided I wanted bigger tires and so on. I decided I wasn't going to change gears for the THIRD time and be back where I started so I put 4.88's in. Now I just scream down the highway at 58mph, but I can climb a tree...
I have another Jeep I'm tinkering with. I have 44's and a 401, another Sniper and blah blah blah and now sometimes I think just buy a wrecked Tahoe and drop in the engine/Transmission /Transfer Case and never worry about it again.
But agreed - get the gas squared away, then get new friends. You've found plenty of them here I can assure you.
I have another Jeep I'm tinkering with. I have 44's and a 401, another Sniper and blah blah blah and now sometimes I think just buy a wrecked Tahoe and drop in the engine/Transmission /Transfer Case and never worry about it again.
But agreed - get the gas squared away, then get new friends. You've found plenty of them here I can assure you.
