Tires for 2.5 - 3 inch lift on stock steel wheels

Soloshot55 · **Joined:** Wed Apr 13, 2016 8:38 am **Posts:** 26

Hi everyone! Please don't tear me apart because I did search but I can't seem to find the answer to my question. I just bought a 2007 Liberty and it has the stock steel wheels. I am going to put a lift on it. It's 2.5 inches in the rear and 3 inches up front. I am going to keep the stock steel wheels. Question is what is the largest tire I can run with that setup? I am not opposed to using a 1 inch wheel spacer. Thanks in advance!!

tommudd · **Posted:** Wed Apr 13, 2016 9:36 am

First which lift are you using ? Full spring or spacer?
Next if spacer 245-70-16s
if full spring then 245-75-16s although you'll lose power and mileage of course

and no on the 1 inch spacers, least you can go is 1.25 inch which work ok with the lift although I never like to go with spacers

Soloshot55 · **Joined:** Wed Apr 13, 2016 8:38 am **Posts:** 26

tommudd wrote:

First which lift are you using ? Full spring or spacer?
Next if spacer 245-70-16s
if full spring then 245-75-16s although you'll lose power and mileage of course

and no on the 1 inch spacers, least you can go is 1.25 inch which work ok with the lift although I never like to go with spacers

Thank you! I will be using spacers. This Jeep will see no off road time. I really appreciate your help

tommudd · **Posted:** Wed Apr 13, 2016 10:29 am

Soloshot55 wrote:

tommudd wrote:

First which lift are you using ? Full spring or spacer?
Next if spacer 245-70-16s
if full spring then 245-75-16s although you'll lose power and mileage of course

and no on the 1 inch spacers, least you can go is 1.25 inch which work ok with the lift although I never like to go with spacers

Thank you! I will be using spacers. This Jeep will see no off road time. I really appreciate your help

Spacers ?
Doesn't matter if off road or not, good full spring lift actually rides way better than stock ever did
with sagged springs and spacers stick with 245-70-16s

Soloshot55 · **Joined:** Wed Apr 13, 2016 8:38 am **Posts:** 26

tommudd wrote:

Soloshot55 wrote:

tommudd wrote:

First which lift are you using ? Full spring or spacer?
Next if spacer 245-70-16s
if full spring then 245-75-16s although you'll lose power and mileage of course

and no on the 1 inch spacers, least you can go is 1.25 inch which work ok with the lift although I never like to go with spacers

Thank you! I will be using spacers. This Jeep will see no off road time. I really appreciate your help

Spacers ?
Doesn't matter if off road or not, good full spring lift actually rides way better than stock ever did
with sagged springs and spacers stick with 245-70-16s

Yeah I know. I have lifted quite a few trucks in my day. I don't mind spacers with longer rear shocks. I had a few XJ's and one I did a full spring lift and one I just did spacers. To be honest, I liked the spacers better!

tommudd · **Posted:** Thu Apr 14, 2016 7:41 am

Lots of differences between the XJ and KJ, spacers just don't work on the KJ with the weak spring rate we have to deal with.
Most all who do a spacer style lift soon change them out to a full spring lift

Soloshot55 · **Joined:** Wed Apr 13, 2016 8:38 am **Posts:** 26

Any particular spring lift you can recommend that is budget friendly?

tommudd · **Posted:** Fri Apr 15, 2016 9:50 am

Soloshot55 wrote:

Any particular spring lift you can recommend that is budget friendly?

Depends on budget
OME 927 / 948 combo with Bilstein shocks is usually the cheapest
Priced one out the other day for a customer , have to see what total was again
will find the estimate

Mountainman · **Posted:** Fri Apr 15, 2016 10:48 am

I've been impressed with my full OME set up. I think it's about $1k, but it been a couple of years. It has held up to heavy towing pretty well.

Soloshot55 · **Joined:** Wed Apr 13, 2016 8:38 am **Posts:** 26

tommudd wrote:

Soloshot55 wrote:

Any particular spring lift you can recommend that is budget friendly?

Depends on budget
OME 927 / 948 combo with Bilstein shocks is usually the cheapest
Priced one out the other day for a customer , have to see what total was again
will find the estimate

Thank you for being so helpful. I think I am probably going to keep it factory ride height after all. I have done some research on here and people say you can use 245/70/16 with the stock rims and no lift. I would like to get a rim & tire package. Can you tellme what offset or backspacing I should be looking for with that tire?

G.O.A.T. · **Joined:** Wed Jan 27, 2016 1:11 am **Posts:** 149

Stock backspacing. 16x7 5" backspacing. Also 245/70 might rub still if its sagged bad

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u2slow · **Joined:** Sun Mar 11, 2012 7:26 pm **Posts:** 160

I'm running a Teraflex spacer lift on the KJ. Its been on for 50,000km now. No complaints.

cobalt72 · **Joined:** Tue Sep 22, 2015 4:56 am **Posts:** 115

OME should do the job perfectly for less.

Tires for 2.5 - 3 inch lift on stock steel wheels

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