"Just Jeepin'" (macintux)
01/04/2020 at 12:30 • Filed to: None
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"Just Jeepin'" (macintux)
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Update : I forgot the lede entirely. The engine in his new beast? !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . He said 1000HP, which it’s known to handle, but I don’t know what it took to reach that .
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I dropped by my mechanic’s shop Friday after a nearby shop had spent the day trying and failing to reproduce my starter problem (sigh). He showed me his latest build, a crawler with 54” tires.
These things are yuuuuuuge. He’s cutting about 40 pounds off the tires and enhancing traction by removing tread.
When I first walked into his lobby I spotted these, which had come off the axles because they were too small, only 40”.
It turns out 5 ton axles are, indeed, beefy.
atfsgeoff
> Just Jeepin'
01/04/2020 at 11:43 |
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that diff must weigh 1/4 ton by itself
sn4cktimes
> Just Jeepin'
01/04/2020 at 11:45 |
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I had 12.5x35’s on my JK. They seemed large. Then a few companies in Calgary did the AEV Hemi swaps and had 40’s on the Rubicon Dana 44’s. I always dreamed of a hemi swap with Dana 60’s riding on 40’s and still being able to do burn outs. Hobby was getting ridiculously expensive and I pulled chute and sold my Jeep after a few years of good times.
Chariotoflove
> Just Jeepin'
01/04/2020 at 11:51 |
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We took my dad’s RL to the mechanic for a squeal in the wheels that’s been there for two months. It was loud as hell all the way to Lebanon. As soon as the mechanic got in it, it disappeared. So my dad can relate.
vondon302
> Just Jeepin'
01/04/2020 at 11:52 |
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5 ton diff!? Yikes
benjrblant
> Just Jeepin'
01/04/2020 at 12:04 |
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He’s cutting about 40 pounds off the tires and enhancing traction by removing tread.
uhh.... “enhancing” ok.
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Just Jeepin'
> benjrblant
01/04/2020 at 12:14 |
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Well, digging through mud anyway. I have no idea how it impacts different types of terrain.
jimz
> Just Jeepin'
01/04/2020 at 12:42 |
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He said 1000HP, which it’s known to handle, but I don’t know what it took to reach that.
a lot of air, a lot of fuel, and a lot of prayer.
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Just Jeepin'
> jimz
01/04/2020 at 12:44 |
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Heh, I know it has a very fat fuel line.
XJDano
> Just Jeepin'
01/04/2020 at 13:05 |
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Look at it this way, removing 1/2 the tread it’ll grip the bottom of the mud instead of caking in between the treads and just be a slick. That’s my theory anyway.
I have 33x12.5 Truxus, but I’ve got 4.56 gearing that’ll handle 35”. But for now 33” is big enough. Because it doesn’t run ... ha ha haaa :-/
Hamtractor
> Just Jeepin'
01/06/2020 at 12:59 |
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Those tires and driveline are crazy burly. I ran 39.5 Swamper SX’s on my one-ton K5, which had a Dana 60 upfront with chromo shafts, 14-bolt rear with chromo shafts, both with Detroit lockers, which seemed super burly at the time, but then again I was running a mildly built TBI 350 putting out around 350 horsies through a TH400 and dual T-cases, so power wasn’t really an issue, lol... I never liked mud, messes everything up and gets in your eyes every time you wrench on the truck, I was all abou t rocks...