33’s or 35’s?
01-23-2019, 01:05 AM
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33’s or 35’s?
Would like to see some pictures with either 33’s or 35’s. After a huge delay, finally pulling the trigger on the RC 3” spindle lift and debating if I should stay within the hearing ratio with 33’s or loose some gearing with 35’s(of course the appearance plays a factor as well). The truck is mostly doing highway driving to the lakes.
01-23-2019, 09:35 AM
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There are dozens of threads with thousands of pictures on this. At the top of the section there's even a sticky.
Always regear if you have the means but if you're just doing Hwy driving and you don't live on the floor pan it should be perfectly fine assuming your trans is in good working order. You'll of course drop in MPG because of the larger tire but if you regear, you'll get a bit of that back due to gearing efficiency. I have 4.56 & 35's and mostly do Winter driving, Hunting trips and tow my cars around. 98% of it though is putting around town on short trips and I could have gone 4.88's with no worry at all.
Always regear if you have the means but if you're just doing Hwy driving and you don't live on the floor pan it should be perfectly fine assuming your trans is in good working order. You'll of course drop in MPG because of the larger tire but if you regear, you'll get a bit of that back due to gearing efficiency. I have 4.56 & 35's and mostly do Winter driving, Hunting trips and tow my cars around. 98% of it though is putting around town on short trips and I could have gone 4.88's with no worry at all.
01-23-2019, 11:21 AM
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Out of curiosity, what is the average labor cost to regear? My trip consist of an hour of towing my boat just about every other weekend. Most of the time it sits in the driveway.
01-24-2019, 12:09 PM
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Depends on your shop tbh. Expect about 1500 parts and labor for your rear axle since you a 2wd. If you go 4.10s and have a heavy boat I would go 33's and 4.56s with 35s,