So would this be considered a shoe fettish?

long_tall_texan · **Posted:** Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:04 pm

I know, I know... I just put the 31x10.50 R15 Michelin LTX M/S on my KJ back in March. But craigslist forced me to upgrade again. Someone wanted to trade their 32x11.50 R15 BFG All Terrain TA KO's for some 31's. He was taking his lift off his Toyota truck to get better MPG and the 32's rubbed. So I traded him even my 31's with 3/16" tread left for his 32's with 3/8" tread left. All it cost me was mounting and balancing. WooHoo!

And just for everyone's info, I have the Daystar lift plus a 3/8" top strut spacer plus 3/8" clevis lift. Running Cragar Black D's, 15x7 with 4" BS. I have trimmed my front bumper and my fender liners, pounded the pinch weld, then re-trimmed the fenders by another 1/2" or so for the 32's to not rub. I have flexed it out and no problem rubbing or trying to rip off the fenders since I have the proper bumpstops in place.

So that makes 4 different tires in less than a year. I think I may have a problem...

October 2008: replaced stock 225/75 R16 Goodyear Wrangler ST with 235/75 R15 Treadwright All Terrains
March 2009: replaced 235/75 R15 Treadwright All Terrains with 31x10.50x15 Michelin LTX M/S
July 2009: replaced 31x10.50x15 Michelin LTX M/S with 32x11.50 R15 BF Goodrich All Terrain TA KO's

What do y'all think?

JMSMN · **Posted:** Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:40 pm

Looks great with the new shoes. Yours is a 2wd right.

jeepkj02 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:50 pm

I think you're the first one to run that size. I think you're only problem is that you can't go any bigger. :lol:

Unless............ :twisted:

oddball · **Posted:** Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:56 pm

Looks great. And if it works for you, all the better.

long_tall_texan · **Posted:** Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:58 pm

JMSMN wrote:

Yours is a 2wd right.

Yes. I am 2WD.

jeepkj02 wrote:

I think you're only problem is that you can't go any bigger. :lol:

Unless............ :twisted:

Yeah, maybe someday I will just SFA my 2WD. Sounds like a fun project to me! :lol:

ATXKJ · **Posted:** Fri Jul 24, 2009 7:40 pm

Well - because it's a 2wd.

I still think you could carefully stack 2 lifts (put on OTT on top of the Daystar strut you have) and get a 5" lift
- you'd have to custom make some bump stops to keep the struts alive, and the rear would suddenly need attention that only the SFA guys have had to deal with but it would give you a 5" lift prerunner.

It looks great as is by the way
the 32/11.5 is impressive.

Guest · **Posted:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:26 am

jeepkj02 wrote:

I think you're the first one to run that size. I think you're only problem is that you can't go any bigger. :lol:

Unless............ :twisted:

Nope, not the first...but it's not a common size for us KJers

LTT, KJ looks good

Murphyman · **Posted:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 1:51 pm

Definately looks good. My 31x10.5's still rub the pinch weld at full turn

. What does your pinch weld look like?... And how exactly did you trim all of the fender lining?

long_tall_texan · **Posted:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 5:32 pm

Pinch Weld here:

And here is a look at my fender trimming:

And Here:

Murphyman · **Posted:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:40 pm

Maybe I just need to hammer it down more. I didn't replace the pinch weld with the plastic that was originally covering it, but it looks like you didn't either. I just spray painted it when it was all said and done. Might be time to bring out the BFH again.

long_tall_texan · **Posted:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 3:03 pm

Yep. That is all I did. I just beat the snot out of it and got it as flat as I could. Then just sprayed it with rattle-can bed-liner.

tommudd · **Posted:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 5:53 pm

I thought that I was bad since I have had 5 sets of different sizes/brands on mine in 125,000 miles , never wore a set out yet, get tired of them and sell them!

67Customs · **Posted:** Tue Jul 28, 2009 12:42 pm

Do you have TPMS?

long_tall_texan · **Posted:** Tue Jul 28, 2009 12:47 pm

Nope. Why do you ask? That should not matter for tire size change... :?:

67Customs · **Posted:** Tue Jul 28, 2009 8:25 pm

long_tall_texan wrote:

Nope. Why do you ask? That should not matter for tire size change... :?:

I was just wondering if you were able to mount Cragars on a KJ with TPMS.

STINGN · **Posted:** Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:42 pm

hey can you take a picture of your coils, i want to see how much compression your coils have compared to mine and i have a daystar too

long_tall_texan · **Posted:** Fri Jul 31, 2009 12:13 am

Sure. I will take a good close pic of them over the weekend and post up here.

STINGN · **Posted:** Fri Jul 31, 2009 1:36 am

thanks, im getting the OME front soon, i just want to see if mine is safe to put on my friends kj or another kj on here

long_tall_texan · **Posted:** Sun Aug 02, 2009 9:35 pm

Here is a pic of the front (with the wheels on and the weight of the KJ on them)

Here is the rear:

So would this be considered a shoe fettish?

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