Who is running 40s on their 2 door? Need advice!
03-31-2016, 06:03 PM
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Keep the jeep for your everyday and moderate trails and build a buggy for the tough stuff. The buggy won'y have the limitations of the jeep and the tough trails generally involves body damage and roll overs. Its not uncommon to lay the jeep against a rock and slide down the side to get by tight spots. A 2-3" stretch is a lot of work for what you end up with as well. If you build a buggy, in the end you will have a nice jeep that will have resale value. A heavily modified jeep with body damage is not worth much. Nearly everyone I have advised in building the kind of jeep you are describing ends up wishing they have built a buggy instead. IF you really want to go down that road I will be glad to help where I can.
03-31-2016, 09:24 PM
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I never broke more stuff then when I went to 37's on rubi axles with 4.10 gears. Seemed like every trip out cost me $400 in repairs. Axle shafts, driveshafts, ran a sway bar link thru a brand new 37" MTR. If you don't mind breaking down on the trails then take the chance on running on the stock axles. Axles can be done for as little as $5k if you can find junkyard ones and can fab yourself or you can spend $15k+ on a new set of built dynatrac's. Its all a balance of budget and what you want to do vs the trails you want to run.
04-02-2019, 11:31 AM
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JK Enthusiast
I have a two door and i am saving up to go the junk yard route. I want to run 40s for the trails i hit and because i love the look of them. i plan on running 5.38 with them so there is my personal input. I agree with the guys above if you want to go extreme then build a buggy as you can get a nice frame for about 5k vs. destroying the jeep.