What have you done to your KK lately

JeepNCrowd · **Posted:** Thu Aug 22, 2013 11:04 pm

Just got back from Colorado and New Mexico. Did Ophir pass, last dollar road, mineral creek, engineer pass (both directions), cinnimon pass & goose lake trail. I saw an un modified new ford explorer coming down cinnimon (looked 2wd). Front was barely scraping and looked liked it would bottom out at any momment. I was amazed that he took it out there. I also passed a prius trying to make it to animas forks from silverton. The road is classified as 2wd, but it is really rough. He must have turned around because I never saw him at the ghost town. It ended far too soon. Full trip report and pictures comming to my tread when I can get them from my family's cameras.

lfhoward · **Posted:** Fri Aug 23, 2013 5:40 pm

With 225/75/R16 Cooper A/T3's

With 245/75/R16 Goodyear Duratracs

Gageraid · **Posted:** Fri Aug 23, 2013 11:32 pm

lfhoward wrote:

With 225/75/R16 Cooper A/T3's

With 245/75/R16 Goodyear Duratracs

Watch that fuelly go down real quick now lol.

lfhoward · **Posted:** Fri Aug 23, 2013 11:58 pm

Ha ha, probably so. I'm going to take it out on the highway tomorrow with my Garmin to see how much the speedometer is off. I can calibrate the scangauge's speedo readout to compensate for the difference, so I don't get pulled over, lol. I think I read somewhere recently that the MPH should be off by about 4% going from 225's to 245-75-R16's. I'm assuming the Jeep will be faster than the speed displayed on the dashboard because the larger tires have fewer rotations for the same distance. Entering mileage into Fuelly will take a bit of math now to convert the trip odometer into actual miles traveled between fill-ups.

Bmxer524 · **Posted:** Sat Aug 24, 2013 12:19 am

lfhoward wrote:

Ha ha, probably so. I'm going to take it out on the highway tomorrow with my Garmin to see how much the speedometer is off. I can calibrate the scangauge's speedo readout to compensate for the difference, so I don't get pulled over, lol. I think I read somewhere recently that the MPH should be off by about 4% going from 225's to 245-75-R16's. I'm assuming the Jeep will be faster than the speed displayed on the dashboard because the larger tires have fewer rotations for the same distance. Entering mileage into Fuelly will take a bit of math now to convert the trip odometer into actual miles traveled between fill-ups.

Should be 4%. That's what I've been using to correct mine. Honestly it "shouldn't" change too much. I notice around town, my KK swallows gas now, but highway didn't change "too" much.

Ted15 · **Posted:** Sat Aug 24, 2013 7:09 am

lfhoward wrote:

Ha ha, probably so. I'm going to take it out on the highway tomorrow with my Garmin to see how much the speedometer is off. I can calibrate the scangauge's speedo readout to compensate for the difference, so I don't get pulled over, lol. I think I read somewhere recently that the MPH should be off by about 4% going from 225's to 245-75-R16's. I'm assuming the Jeep will be faster than the speed displayed on the dashboard because the larger tires have fewer rotations for the same distance. Entering mileage into Fuelly will take a bit of math now to convert the trip odometer into actual miles traveled between fill-ups.

When you calibrate the speedo with your scangauge, doesn't that also correct the odometer?

lfhoward · **Posted:** Sat Aug 24, 2013 9:36 pm

Ted15 wrote:

lfhoward wrote:

Ha ha, probably so. I'm going to take it out on the highway tomorrow with my Garmin to see how much the speedometer is off. I can calibrate the scangauge's speedo readout to compensate for the difference, so I don't get pulled over, lol. I think I read somewhere recently that the MPH should be off by about 4% going from 225's to 245-75-R16's. I'm assuming the Jeep will be faster than the speed displayed on the dashboard because the larger tires have fewer rotations for the same distance. Entering mileage into Fuelly will take a bit of math now to convert the trip odometer into actual miles traveled between fill-ups.

When you calibrate the speedo with your scangauge, doesn't that also correct the odometer?

Unfortunately no. But it gives me the correct mph on the Scangauge itself, so that the displayed mpg will be closer to being right. The calibration I needed to make the scangauge display the same speed as the gps was 2%.

silverkk · **Joined:** Mon Feb 04, 2013 12:27 pm **Posts:** 637

racks on

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lfhoward · **Posted:** Sun Aug 25, 2013 6:20 pm

silverkk wrote:

racks on

Looks good! Is that a Rola rack?
What do you think of having the spare tire up there? Do you need to hire a crane to get it on/off? :dizzy:

I just upgraded to 245/75/R16's and they are heavy! Your tires/rims look much bigger.

huntb · **Posted:** Sun Aug 25, 2013 7:16 pm

silverkk wrote:

racks on

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4" backspacing and 1.5" spacers?

lfhoward · **Posted:** Sun Aug 25, 2013 7:56 pm

FYI, I wrote up a how-to for adding HD cooling to KK's without the tow package in the KK Tech section. Link:
http://www.lostjeeps.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=104&t=76451

murrari · **Joined:** Tue Aug 20, 2013 11:45 am **Posts:** 8

Plasti-dipped the grille and painted the tow hooks on Friday.

tommudd · **Posted:** Mon Aug 26, 2013 12:23 pm

huntb wrote:

silverkk wrote:

racks on

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4" backspacing and 1.5" spacers?

?????????? why

and looks like he's needing a lot of bumpstops
dang no flex room there at all

huntb · **Posted:** Mon Aug 26, 2013 3:53 pm

tommudd wrote:

huntb wrote:

silverkk wrote:

racks on

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4" backspacing and 1.5" spacers?

?????????? why

and looks like he's needing a lot of bumpstops
dang no flex room there at all

I was thinking the same thing

silverkk · **Joined:** Mon Feb 04, 2013 12:27 pm **Posts:** 637

The hit the fenders before with the rims so I went wider cuz wide looks good lol and also i need better shocks for more down I have enough up

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silverkk · **Joined:** Mon Feb 04, 2013 12:27 pm **Posts:** 637

No need for a crane lol it isn't terrible

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tommudd · **Posted:** Mon Aug 26, 2013 4:16 pm

silverkk wrote:

The hit the fenders before with the rims so I went wider cuz wide looks good lol and also i need better shocks for more down I have enough up

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Must be an East Coast thing then
:wink:

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Mon Aug 26, 2013 4:41 pm

To each their own....... :JEEPIN:

Gageraid · **Posted:** Mon Aug 26, 2013 5:33 pm

tommudd wrote:

silverkk wrote:

The hit the fenders before with the rims so I went wider cuz wide looks good lol and also i need better shocks for more down I have enough up

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Must be an East Coast thing then
:wink:

East coast you see a lot of stanced vehicles, cars, trucks, SUVs, Jeeps, anything. Even though we have horrible roads, it's definitely a popular look. You should see the Subarus, VWs and Audis in Jersey, all have tires sticking out way past the fenders.

Bmxer524 · **Posted:** Mon Aug 26, 2013 8:06 pm

Gageraid wrote:

tommudd wrote:

silverkk wrote:

The hit the fenders before with the rims so I went wider cuz wide looks good lol and also i need better shocks for more down I have enough up

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Must be an East Coast thing then
:wink:

East coast you see a lot of stanced vehicles, cars, trucks, SUVs, Jeeps, anything. Even though we have horrible roads, it's definitely a popular look. You should see the Subarus, VWs and Audis in Jersey, all have tires sticking out way past the fenders.

Hanging out a tiny bit/flush isn't bad. That makes a nice useable stance. What I hate seeing are the tires stretched to fit on rims WAY too wide. I'm not talking like 245s on an 8" rim, I mean when people try to make that fit on a 9 or 10" wide rim. It's bad for tires, bad for traction and just plain unsafe. I see a lot of the full sized trucks doing it. The big pickups and Hondas seem to be the worst. Lets not get started on that "hella flush" bs lmfao

Btw, nice to see ya back digger.

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