4" Lift w/ 31" tires?

[mattysuehurricne]

I have a 92 YJ, I don't have the money to buy 33's, or change the gears after putting 33's on it, will a 4" lift with 31" tires look like crap or not, does anybody have any pics of a 4" lift with 31's?

[BigMudder]

It wont look like crap, but it wont look right. I have been running 30 inch tires and a 4 inch lift for a while because i dont have the money for the other stuff like you. It just looks a little akward.

[OhioYJ]

A friend of mines YJ with 4" of lift, and 31" tires:

http://www.cdmfabrication.com/bbpics/brettbumper.jpg

http://www.cdmfabrication.com/bbpics/brett2.jpg

They did look a little small, but not bad. I'm sure you will eventually want to upgrade to 33s, when you wear your 31s out, but you don't have to do it right away. I know on his Jeep when he had chrome wheels for some reason the tires looked bigger, then he swapped to black wheels using the same tires and they looked a little smaller.

[ryan rudakewiz]

here's my $0.02 ... I have just a 4inch suspension/33 x12.50's and i didnt do the regearing... i notice small losses in acceleration but not too worried about it right now... i have a 4.0L 6cycl

[4bob4]

http://photos-056.ak.facebook.com/ip002/v71/170/88/50500654/n50500654_30604056_8192.jpg

This is obviously a CJ but pretty close.

[mattysuehurricne]

It doesn't look that bad actually I was just picturing it sitting real high with little tires, we did my friends TJ with a 4" rough country lift and 33" pro comp xterrians, its a 2.5L like mine and its pretty doggy up hills, and dropped the gas mileage down pretty good so I want to stick with 31's for now, thanks for the pics and advice... anybody heard reviews on dunlop mud rover tires by chance? any good?

[4bob4]

I've heard good things about them there is a review of them somewhere on rockcrawler.com a few folks have them here you may want to start a new topic to get some more attention. The only thing to me is the tread depth always seems really shallow to me.

[OhioYJ]

dunlop mud rover tires by chance? any good?Yeap, I've run them, then sold them to a buddy. I ran the 33x12.50, they were great, cheap tire and they lasted forever, my buddy is still riding around on those nearly 3 years later (and he drives all over)! Off road they performed as good as any other mud terrain I've run.

[Goofatyerservice]

^I've heard good things about them, but just chose the BFG Muds over them- I heard some issues with the sidwall being thin.


BFG was like $40 more a tire, but I've had them before and I trust them. Sometimes you justify spending a lil more

[chutta]

I'm running 32 at's for street with 5" of lift overall and it does not look bad in my opinion. Picture the gap of a motocross bike. Better off with the wheel travel than the scrunched up look of tread 2" from the flare in my op. Putting on the 33/12.50's totally changes the look and also pretty drastically alters track width for tight trails too.

[TrailPirate]

here are 31 on a 6"
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o7/handsomety/03wrangler-1.jpg
Then a couple years later and lessons learned 33 with a 4"
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o7/handsomety/0430071941-00.jpg

[Devildog]

Heres a pic of mine when I had 31's

http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/9941/img0408kz4.jpg