31/10.5s, 22re, 4.10s, 65mph?
05-11-2011, 10:52 AM
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Personally, for a DD, in the conditions your explaining?..... I'd go with 31x10.50x15's. 31's PROBABLY THE MOST common size out there. Plus, I've gotten out of plenty of crappy situations with my 31's, only wishing on rare occasions that I had 33's or something bigger(for the 'softer ride through the washboard' factor, haha). Now, with a locker, I think I'll be just fine with the 4.30 gears, header, cam and some head work.
With 31's, the 4.10's will do you fine with a fresh motor and lil beefier cam. Mine does the Grapevine(notorious highway mountain pass that kills many people's cars who don't know when to turn off the AC, hahaa) NO PROBLEM, now, with the CAM and couple other lil mods like the header, etc. With lil bit oversized valves and cam, maybe a header, I'm sure it'd serve your purposes fine. Plus, mine did fine on that pass fully loaded with LOTS of gear for a long trip.(And that was with my stock 4.10's)
For wheeling, however, .... as I've been told, and plan on finding out in this rig, asap..... "LOCKER IS THE BEST INVESTMENT FOR WHEELING THAT YOU'LL MAKE! At least in the rear". You can pick one up, a lunchbox style, from Spartan for around 260$.
Yeah, ...lil buiding up you're doing to the motor, a locker in the rear, a header and CAM and 31's?.... I think you'd be served JUST FINE for the dual purpose you need it for without having to put in another several hundred in gears, etc. I mean,...you're concerned about the price of Gas, legitimately so! Right?... So,....why not save on the rest of it where possible, right? hahaha. You'd be surprised what a header, head work and a cam can do for you up hills, etc.....it's like adding half or more of another gear, ya know? ..........Unfortunately, my builder was possibly having mental issues while he built my motor....so, ....I'm having to do it over, hahaha. But, live and learn, right?
With 31's, the 4.10's will do you fine with a fresh motor and lil beefier cam. Mine does the Grapevine(notorious highway mountain pass that kills many people's cars who don't know when to turn off the AC, hahaa) NO PROBLEM, now, with the CAM and couple other lil mods like the header, etc. With lil bit oversized valves and cam, maybe a header, I'm sure it'd serve your purposes fine. Plus, mine did fine on that pass fully loaded with LOTS of gear for a long trip.(And that was with my stock 4.10's)
For wheeling, however, .... as I've been told, and plan on finding out in this rig, asap..... "LOCKER IS THE BEST INVESTMENT FOR WHEELING THAT YOU'LL MAKE! At least in the rear". You can pick one up, a lunchbox style, from Spartan for around 260$.
Yeah, ...lil buiding up you're doing to the motor, a locker in the rear, a header and CAM and 31's?.... I think you'd be served JUST FINE for the dual purpose you need it for without having to put in another several hundred in gears, etc. I mean,...you're concerned about the price of Gas, legitimately so! Right?... So,....why not save on the rest of it where possible, right? hahaha. You'd be surprised what a header, head work and a cam can do for you up hills, etc.....it's like adding half or more of another gear, ya know? ..........Unfortunately, my builder was possibly having mental issues while he built my motor....so, ....I'm having to do it over, hahaha. But, live and learn, right?
05-11-2011, 08:32 PM
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I tell ya what, ..... with mine and Scotty's 2000 4Runner(Addicted-Scotty, lol).... I'd be fine for life! lol.
05-14-2011, 07:22 AM
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Yeah i'll take some later. It's a 21' kona ski boat someone turned into a bass boat. Has a 350ci, 260hp inboard on it. I pulled it home with my dually and when it's wider than the dually. It actually makes the dually look small. I stopped at wal-mart on the way home with it to buy a drop down hitch(truck back end sits too high), and some woman drove by and i heard her say (that's a big son of a *****). The guy who had it had about a '00 model f150, and said it was almost too much for his truck to pull. It used to have about a dozen seats in it. It's big enough the 40gal tank is under the floor in it.
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05-14-2011, 10:09 AM
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i had an 84 i got from the salvage yard had 35's and 4.10's it g0t about 19 on the freeway i drove it for about six months and who in the heck said with 4.10's and 31's you couldn't go down the freeway what goofballs 
05-14-2011, 10:37 AM
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Amen, Brother! lol..... Heck, ...like I said, ...Had 31's and 4.10's with 260K miles on it, ..... stock gears, ...... STILL did nearly 80mph on the freeway. Of course......almost any hill could beat my rump, but that's another story, right? hahaha.
05-14-2011, 11:32 AM
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I think the forum i was on before, where i asked this question was for rock crawlers & mud boggers or something. I just wanted to make sure it was capable of going highway speeds with 31s. Anything under 31in tires just doesn't seem like it would be very good offroad, unless it had a real short wheelbase. I try to pick tires by my wheelsbase, and power. Not that i rock crawl or anything.
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