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 Post subject: Re: 245/75/16 vs 245/70/16 on 1.5" -2" lift. Tire choices
PostPosted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 4:48 pm 
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The pics of the Velocity Raptor's

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Now to do the lift.


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 Post subject: Re: 245/75/16 vs 245/70/16 on 1.5" -2" lift. Tire choices
PostPosted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 7:49 pm 
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Holy fender rubbing batman :5SHOTS:

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 Post subject: Re: 245/75/16 vs 245/70/16 on 1.5" -2" lift. Tire choices
PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:08 am 
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All3Sports wrote:
Holy fender rubbing batman :5SHOTS:


Only rubbing slightly at full lock but the BDS/Bilstein lift coming in a week or two. :BANANA:


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 Post subject: Re: 245/75/16 vs 245/70/16 on 1.5" -2" lift. Tire choices
PostPosted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 1:41 pm 
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Whats your opinion on those Raptors? They sure are priced very well.

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 Post subject: Re: 245/75/16 vs 245/70/16 on 1.5" -2" lift. Tire choices
PostPosted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 1:47 pm 
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All3Sports wrote:
Ehhhh stock wheel's will cause massive rubbing unless you toss some spidertrax wheel spacers on them.

Either change the wheels or put spacers on, those are really the only 2 options.

oh and pics:

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Space between wheel and pinch weld:
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That was an OME Lift with 927/928 springs and a 1/4 top plate from jeepinbyal. I was debating doing a clevis but really wasn't necessary.

Edit: I can fit 3 fingers between the wheel and pinch weld.



Actually I have less rubbing with the stock wheels than i did with my soft 8's with 4" backspacing - the 4" inch backspacing just looks nicer.

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 Post subject: Re: 245/75/16 vs 245/70/16 on 1.5" -2" lift. Tire choices
PostPosted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 11:03 am 
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Havok wrote:
I'm going to put a =- 1.5" -2" BDS/Bilstein lift in my 2004 KJ.

I'm stuck with a decision. The KJ is also my daily driver and I use it offroad maybe 30% / 40% of the time.
I decided to go with an A/T tire. At the moment I'm running the standard Goodyear's 235/70/16's

I don't want to regear.
Do I go with the 245/70/16's or do I go with 245/75/16's? I can do the pinchwelds etc but my concern is the regearing. I don't want to do that.
I kinda think I should just go with the 245/70/16 as I also have more tyre options - with the 75's the only one I really like is the Maxxis 753 mt.

Tyre options I have narrowed it down to for the 245/70/16's:

General Grabber AT2
Maxxis Bravo 700
Yokohama Geolander At
Dunlop SP Trakgrip

Why no BFG AT? well... I have heard and seen them de-bead quite a lot on sand. More than any other tyre. the M/T's are not prone to this but I don't want M/T's

Can anyone recommend any of the listed tires?
I drive a lot of hard dirt (/some rocks) and sand when I do go offroad.

Any advice would be appreciated.




what gearing do you have?

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