Topic: Gear for 35's

[Torch_Ind]

I run 5.38 and 35" tires with my 5spd and it's awesome onroad, cruise down the interstate just fine.  Drove 2:30 hours Wednesday to the lake and got 17.75mpg, not bad for this setup.

ya that would be a decent set up.  it's to bad dana 30/35 only take 4.88's I would have went 5.13-5.38 for 33's because I'm more of a rig we take my g/f civic for any long distance travel

you could go bigger then 5.38's and 35's if it was a dedicated trail rig

[TahoeYJ]

I run 5.38 and 35" tires with my 5spd and it's awesome onroad, cruise down the interstate just fine.  Drove 2:30 hours Wednesday to the lake and got 17.75mpg, not bad for this setup.

What RPM's do you run at on the highway at 65-70? I can't remember which manufacturers had what when I looked the other day but I found 5:29's and 5:38's for a 9"/D44 set-up, I couldn't help but think that 5:38's would run the RPM's a little high, but I try to keep mine below 3500...

[Bounty Hunter]

I run about 3000 rpms around 65mph, I know it's not excessively high.  I can hold 5th very well and accelerate good.

[FourbangerYJ]

Phil Howell (Editor of 4WD & SU Magazine) has done a 2.5L build with 5.38's as well as several others with 5.13's and they also had the Tera.  His other projects ran 35's and 5.89's.

I was just reading in this months (Aug 10) 4WD&SU Phil's 4word page 8. It's about the projects he has done that didn't work out. One of them is "the little engine that could" I am pretty sure I remember this one. It was back in the mid-late 90's. It had F9inch axles with IIRC 6.50 gears, say's in the 4word 5.60:1 something, 5 speed,Tera Low." The little engine that couldn't. It returned 10 MPG at best because my foot had to be buried to the firewall to get the Jeep to move. Bye,Bye.

I am pretty sure it had 35's since that was the largest radial at the time. If it's the one I am thinking of it was white. IIRC it was sold to a guy in Socal.

I like Phil. I like the way he writes. I have talked with him at Moab a few years ago. He has a voice that you won't forget once you hear it. It's very deep.

[Jeffy]

I was just reading in this months (Aug 10) 4WD&SU Phil's 4word page 8. It's about the projects he has done that didn't work out. One of them is "the little engine that could" I am pretty sure I remember this one. It was back in the mid-late 90's. It had F9inch axles with IIRC 6.50 gears, say's in the 4word 5.60:1 something, 5 speed,Tera Low." The little engine that couldn't. It returned 10 MPG at best because my foot had to be buried to the firewall to get the Jeep to move. Bye,Bye.

I am pretty sure it had 35's since that was the largest radial at the time. If it's the one I am thinking of it was white. IIRC it was sold to a guy in Socal.

I like Phil. I like the way he writes. I have talked with him at Moab a few years ago. He has a voice that you won't forget once you hear it. It's very deep.

6.50 is way too low for 35's.  It would be ok with 38's, I'm sure.  He was the editor for 4WD&SU back in the 80's.  Then he left and now he's back.