Biggest tire w/3" lift (trimming allowed)

[kst8engineer]

I'm sure this has been asked before, but I was unable to locate anything useful with the search. I'm currently running 31-10.5's on a 3" lift in a 4-door XJ. My front fenders have been trimmed substantially and I'm in the process of trimming the quarter panels now. I know another guy that's running 32's on a 2" BB with roughly the same trimming I've done, and that got me to wondering if someone has run 33's on a 3" lift (preferrably on a 4-door). I'm sure it's been done, I'm just looking for feedback from someone that's done it. Is it possible to trim enough to fit'em on a 4-door?

Thanks

[ALL PLAY]

All depends in how u use your rig.... If u play stick to what u got. THis will allow for flexing. Now if your all show and no go it can be done. Also if your using stock wheels this will work. If you have off set wheels don't try it unless you enjoy body damage.

[kst8engineer]

I wheel it pretty aggresively, so I don't want to lose a substantial amount of flexibility, although I could possibly regain that lost compression flex on the extension side (Revolver shackles or something similar).

[wrecked]

There was a guy running 38.5" Super Swamper SX's with only 3" of lift. Two door model. He moved a bunch of stuff up front inward for clearance and re did his rear wheel wells though.

I'm pretty positive that if you took 4.5" out of my lift(bringing it to 3") I could fit a 33" tire in there. I run a 4dr and my wells are trimmed to the max. Actually I just cut off the lower corner panels this weekend and rewelded the body to the wells as they started to come undone. You can't cut any further than mine are without major reworkings.

-Kevin

[AKswampheep]

i have a friend, note, not a very smart one, that has 33" tires with NO lift... yes it looks retarded, but, they fit with only trimming to the point above the fold for the flares in the front, and hes an idiot and just bent the lip in the back fender upwards.. some indiana folks i just dont understand

[kst8engineer]

That's the kind of stuff I'm looking for. What kind of similarly insane tire fitments have you seen on 4-door XJ's?

[codeman8118]

i have 4.5 with 33's and i trimmed mine but im pretty sure if u bumpstop and trim yours you could fit 33's on a 3 incher....i might upgrade to 35's because i have too much room for my 33's on a 4.5" inch lift..yes it's a 4 door so yeah...

[Dookie]

i've seen 35's on a budget lift. boggers. lots of bumpstop and trimming.

[woody431]

I run 34" LTBs on a 2" BB. No bumpstops, no swaybars. Front fenders are trimmed to the body line all the way down, no contact there with the tires on full flex. The rears are cut and folded. And it is a 4dr.

[JT_Law]

I run 34" LTBs on a 2" BB. No bumpstops, no swaybars. Front fenders are trimmed to the body line all the way down, no contact there with the tires on full flex. The rears are cut and folded. And it is a 4dr.

Pics *please*
This may be near what I am targeting for over winter on a 90
Thx

[crookedletterd]

I run 34" LTBs on a 2" BB. No bumpstops, no swaybars. Front fenders are trimmed to the body line all the way down, no contact there with the tires on full flex. The rears are cut and folded. And it is a 4dr.

wow. just curious, how did that start? did you not have any urge to lift higher than 2 inches??

[kst8engineer]

I run 34" LTBs on a 2" BB. No bumpstops, no swaybars. Front fenders are trimmed to the body line all the way down, no contact there with the tires on full flex. The rears are cut and folded. And it is a 4dr.
I agree -- some pics would be great. I'm curious to see how much you've trimmed and folded on the quarter panels compared to what I've done.

Thanks

[jrsxj98]

Search that feature is your friend..........

[littlebluexj]

i have a four door and i only had 2inchs of lift with 33's and now i have gone to 4.5inchs of lift you can run 33x10.50s on a 3"lift if you want just cut the rear to the pinch seam or farther

[jfiscus]

I have around 2.5" front and 2.75" rear lift running 33 TSLs.

Here are some pics:
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c72/jfiscus/wholejeep.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c72/jfiscus/side1.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c72/jfiscus/reardrivers.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c72/jfiscus/frontdrivers.jpg

[Silverstreak01]

im running 33 10.5 mts on a saggy 3inch lift.. fits perfect

[HaZakated]

I got 3.5" lift in the rear and 2" lift in the front running 32*9.50 tsl's...I have to run my front sway bar until I extend my bump stops or get longer coils but I locked up the 8.25 so the bar hasn't hurt me 2 much. No rubbage at all.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y41/HaZakated/DSC00164.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y41/HaZakated/DSC00131.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y41/HaZakated/DSC00160.jpg

[jfiscus]

Here is my XJ posing with the front swaybars connected, both front and rear tires are stuffed/extended all the way possible in this photo.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c72/jfiscus/Haspinflex.jpg

[Beachmonkey6]

WHATS THE POINT!! You might as well just get a bigger lift.

[ZachMan]

WHATS THE POINT!! You might as well just get a bigger lift.

just low COG :wierd:

[Silverstreak01]

and i think done right it looks ALOT better then huge lift and small tires. my jeep sitting at 3inchs and 33s looks awsome. i am currently geting parts together for a 4.5 so after lockers and gears and some axle upgrade (this spring) i can go 35s after my 33s are shot.. just curiouse whats your set up? my buddy had 32s on a 6inch lift.. looked silly and he thought so to. got wackers and 35s.. looks 1000x better.

why is everyone staying at the lowest hight and trying to run the biggest tires. ??

[HaZakated]

WHATS THE POINT!! You might as well just get a bigger lift.

Bigger lift is on the project list. But I can say this.....both of those jeeps are very capable jeeps. I climb obsticals that people say that you need a 6"lift and 35" tires and lockers front (I only have rear locker) and D44's to get over. I do know the value in having more arcticulation, but its not stopping me from getting from point A to point B. Its just making it a little harder to get there. Hummers have very little arcticulation but are some of the most capable off road vehicels out there. If you ever get a chance to watch one preform they always have one tire off the ground. The main reason I am running such a small lift is $$$$$. I am a starving college student trying make a trail in the mud.


http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y41/HaZakated/DSC00168.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y41/HaZakated/DSC00166.jpg

[HaZakated]

Oh, and for those of you that are wondering what is stuck to my interior roof. It is a dial angle finder magnatized to measure the angles that I am on. I can turn it sideways to measure side angles as well.

[jmpzp4]

jfiscus how wide are your 33's and how did you fit them. I have a 3" lift and I was thinking of getting buschwacker cut-out flares. what is the biggest and widest I can get. Is 33x12.5 to big with those modification???

[Cowboydoc]

Jfuscus...dumn question for you, what type of rack is that you have there. That looks alot like what I am trying to find for my 86.

[jfiscus]

These are 33x12.5x15 TSL Super Swampers.
I do nt know if they would ft with trimming for bushwackers, I trimmed for TJ flares.

The rack is a Surco rack, they are pretty cheap new; I bought mine used for $50. It is pretty sturdy and holds a lot of stuff or a tire easily. I would suggest the gutter-mounts over roof-rack mounts on an older XJ.

[88XJScott]

I put 32's on my DD on a 3.5" Rubincon Express lift with almost no trimming, just a little on the front fender at the bottom cause it touched when I turned full lock and was flexed out...

http://filebox.vt.edu/users/jeepman/Images/jeep2.jpg

[Kevlar]

WHATS THE POINT!! You might as well just get a bigger lift.

It's all about the money.

Advantages
-CHEAP
-allows for bigger tires without affecting driveline angles
-lifts the vehicle while keeping center of gravity low
-less sheetmetal to worry about :D

Disadvantages
-less articulation
-bumpstops need to be adjusted

I know if i was rich I would have a 5.5" lift with tnt longarms and such. Unfortunately I'm not :(.

[Menzenski]

How about 38s on a 3 inch lift (http://www.cardomain.com/ride/837033)?

[XplodJeepster]

I saw a guiy once out at elbe hills with 37 in tires on a 3 in lift, he didn't have much of a quarter panel left, and some of his door was cropped off. but he got by with "just a little bit" of rubbing along the way.

it's possilbe

[DBenz]

I know that Dirk at DPG is into the whole low COG thing, and he has pictures of XJs with the 3.5" lift on 31s, 33s, and 35s. He has them trimmed and bumpstopped though. I have the 3.5" with 31s right now and will be trimming for 33s this summer, or put a spacer/shackle on it first and see.

BTW, I see you're in Kansas, do you go on trail krawlers 4x4?

[shimmy]

I run 34" LTBs on a 2" BB. No bumpstops, no swaybars. Front fenders are trimmed to the body line all the way down, no contact there with the tires on full flex. The rears are cut and folded. And it is a 4dr.

yeah but you are a crazy mo fo

[scorpio_vette]

I run 34" LTBs on a 2" BB. No bumpstops, no swaybars. Front fenders are trimmed to the body line all the way down, no contact there with the tires on full flex. The rears are cut and folded. And it is a 4dr.

pics???

[woody431]

Sorry I just checked this thread from awhile ago, lol. Im getting a digi cam tomorrow so Ill snap some poser pics up..I just got the Jeep back home from my buddys farm so its sitting in the driveway.

Im just running a BB because of

A) money situations
B) I love cutting sheetmetal off
C) I like to show people what a "stock" XJ can do..

Im locked f/r and my junk is just hacked up completely. Ive just been wheelin my stuff like this for awhile..went from 31's to 32's to now 34's. Im getting ready to pull the front and rear axles, so Ill be down for awhile until I get my 3/4 ton stuff in..

[fordtech]

im running 33 10.5 mts on a saggy 3inch lift.. fits perfect

I still think using 10.5 width is the answer to fitting more tire on an xj.....problem is narrow tires arent as readily available...16's have alittle better sizing but are alot more $$$$

[jeep01xj]

3.5" Rocklizard Fab lift and 33" Trxus. A little Trimming and Trim Kit :)

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e102/jeep01xj/IMG_1171.jpg

[woody431]

http://i6.tinypic.com/11t74nr.jpg
http://i5.tinypic.com/11t781d.jpg
http://i6.tinypic.com/11t7azr.jpg

My junk has been trimmed alot more now..Fenders are getting ready to come off and fuel tank is being removed in favor of a cell so more chopping to come, thinking along the lines of what Okie Terry did..

OK I dont know if its just the computer im on or what but the pics came out really big on this end, so sorry if they are huge..

[ChicksDigWagons]

I would just like to give you the award for the worst digital camera pictures I've ever seen in my life :cheers:

In any case, I'm a big fan of shoving as much tire with as little lift as necessary and trim the body to make up the difference. Where I wheel I don't need loads of articulation. The only major problem is water fording depth is reduced. Otherwise I like to keep 'em low.

[woody431]

Dear god, lol I just got back on my home computer. Those are definetly some crappy pics! I dont know why they turned out like that. Sorry!!!

Can I email those pics to someone and have them resized and reposted? I have them on tinypic but I have no photo editing software on my parents' computer..

[Red97XJ]

did ya take em with a 5 year old camera phone?

LOL, repost some good ones so we can see!

[scorpio_vette]

i just downloaded them off of your tinypic album, but even if i resized them, the picture quality isn't even worth the work.....try to re-shoot the pictures with better quality. then we can work with them from there.

[woody431]

I used my sisters digital camera..what a piece..lol. Ill work on gettin new ones

[woody431]

...nothing

[JT_Law]

Holy resize batman :shocked:

[xuv-this]

33" is about the max you can stuff in and clear at full compression, with min. safe amount of sheetmetal remaining. don't cut into those pinch seams w/o a really good cage. also 32 is the biggest you can go w/o completely removing the stock flare.http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b397/realsuv/DCP00309.jpg

[zthang43]

33" is about the max you can stuff in and clear at full compression, with min. safe amount of sheetmetal remaining. don't cut into those pinch seams w/o a really good cage. also 32 is the biggest you can go w/o completely removing the stock flare.


x2

I am able to stuff my 32x11.50's pretty well, but most of the inside of the flares are gone. I mainly kept them on for the sort-of stock look so my wife isn't embarrassed to drive it. :)
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c26/zthang43/Jeep%20lift%20kit/Fender%20trimming%20-%20Front/Img_2389.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c26/zthang43/Jeep%20lift%20kit/Fender%20trimming%20-%20Rear/Img_2334.jpg

[xuv-this]

yeah. if you want to jump it though, both tires will "tuck" -right through the flares when they both
bottom out at the same time. :) hence why mine are cut like they are. my front flares are strreeched out and redrilled in the top/leading edge.