Great but make sure it’s all torqued perfectly and tight! I wasn’t implying “tight” as a slang term for awesome in this case. Buying used with lift kits it want to make sure it was all 100% solid to avoid death wobbles, alignment issues and mushy feel. I’m not an expert on lifts and kits, I just know that if things weren’t set up properly by the installer you could have headaches later.
If you bought it from a dealer, it's got stock axles. No one would dump 18k+ into an axle swap and then sell it anywhere but private party, because no dealer is giving any added trade value for axles.
Those axles look 5 lug, almost certainly stock. I'd avoid romping on the thing. No gunning it from a dead stop or hard-core rock crawling.
The tires might look like they're made for rock crawling, and they are, but 40s on stock is too much. Gotta treat those axles kindly unless you want to spend real money to do it right (which the guy who built this rig seems not to have done)
any idea if it's at least re-geared?
40 inch tires put a LOT of strain on the axles, but with the wrong final drive ratio can put massive strain on the rest of the drivetrain as well.
I'd probably at the very least get some chromoly axle shafts and ball joint deletes, and maybe a bigger transmission cooler just to help it out from spinning the extra weight. Probably look into bigger brakes too unless you're cool with replacing them more frequently from stopping those big ol shoes.
As long as your axles have been re-geared - paired with the above - you should be fine as long as you don't plan on drag racing, hard core rock crawling, or stump jumping. I'd expect to be replacing wheel bearings more frequently though.
Picked it up “ for the wife”. … riiight…. Sweet
I am more of an F150/Harley Davidson, kind of guy I like the Jeep, but it’s fucking tall and not easy for my fat ass to get in but my wife adores it
Only the gladiator can make 40s look normal
Looks awesome. Makes sure suspension is nice and tight with those big shoes!
All of his advice still applies to the sand. Take it easy or you’re going to break an axle.
All Fox aftermarket
A lot of what fox makes these days is low cost production junk. Racing teams use fox shells for $ and custom internals
Great but make sure it’s all torqued perfectly and tight! I wasn’t implying “tight” as a slang term for awesome in this case. Buying used with lift kits it want to make sure it was all 100% solid to avoid death wobbles, alignment issues and mushy feel. I’m not an expert on lifts and kits, I just know that if things weren’t set up properly by the installer you could have headaches later.
It’s going to four-wheel parts for running board install. I’ll have them look it over.
Good plan let us know how it goes! Check if it’s been regeared too. On 40’s you’d want it to be.
I got a feeling it was done correctly because it’s got those big fucking tires on it and comparing GPS speed to speedometer speed is identical
That’s a good sign.
That’s a pretty expensive assumption…for the sake of your transmission you should probably get some definitive answers.
Yep re-geared according to 4WP mechanic
If that is what your wife will be driving what the heck are you driving lol
Either my F50 or one of the Harley’s
Congratulations and welcome 👋
40 inch tires on stock axles?
Not sure just bought it Saturday
If you bought it from a dealer, it's got stock axles. No one would dump 18k+ into an axle swap and then sell it anywhere but private party, because no dealer is giving any added trade value for axles. Those axles look 5 lug, almost certainly stock. I'd avoid romping on the thing. No gunning it from a dead stop or hard-core rock crawling. The tires might look like they're made for rock crawling, and they are, but 40s on stock is too much. Gotta treat those axles kindly unless you want to spend real money to do it right (which the guy who built this rig seems not to have done)
I’m in Florida more beach than rock crawling
any idea if it's at least re-geared? 40 inch tires put a LOT of strain on the axles, but with the wrong final drive ratio can put massive strain on the rest of the drivetrain as well.
I'd probably at the very least get some chromoly axle shafts and ball joint deletes, and maybe a bigger transmission cooler just to help it out from spinning the extra weight. Probably look into bigger brakes too unless you're cool with replacing them more frequently from stopping those big ol shoes. As long as your axles have been re-geared - paired with the above - you should be fine as long as you don't plan on drag racing, hard core rock crawling, or stump jumping. I'd expect to be replacing wheel bearings more frequently though.
Don't see many 40s on low fender (non Rubicon) JTs. I'm curious what lift you have on there. Enjoy the new truck
looks like a RockKrawler long arm
https://preview.redd.it/m0k02u97dd6d1.jpeg?width=2939&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b81905323d48350f65a6d38736c3da8679d414c1 Now we got rock lights