Hello. New guy here.
I want to run some 35" Tires on my Rubicon.
I also really like having a low center of gravity. I know some people have done some crazy 40" tires on very minimal lift, so it must be possible.

It's a 2007 2-door Rubicon.
If needed (which is probably) I can pick up a set of those flat tube fenders to give myself more space.
I will have to get wheels with some sorta backspacing. Not sure what yet, looking for advice.
I may have to pound some body seams flat. Or cut a little bit of the sheet metal?
I can't weld, but I can cut.

I know others have done this, but I haven't been very successful in looking up posts using the search function. Everyone talks about how much lift you need for this and that. Signal to noise ratio is kinda high. So what's required for this mod? Or can you point me to liks with info on that?

Thanks.

 

It can be done and here is proof....

 

Ah cool. So what did you have to do?

Flat Fenders I see.

wheel spacers?

Just correctly backspaced wheels? The 4.5" I keep seeing?

 

Just found this post

https://www.jk-forum.com/forums/show...=1#post1763464

Still reading lots

 

I did the same on my '09 Rubicon. 35" tires and the Buchwacker flat fenders. Everything was cool until I went off road. I found that I had to cut back my rock rail about 2 inches and add a 2.5" ome lift. Then there was just a little rub after airing down so I added a 3/4" coil spacer. Now it's all good.

If you're just going to ride pavement then you should be good without all the add ons.

 

Nope, gonna wheel it.
If I was just doing street duty I wouldn't mind lifting it.
For street duty I wanna pick up some 32" street tires. Revos or something that'll get me better mileage on the street. Save the 35's for winter and off-ropading.

Rock rails need to be trimmed, that looks obvious from pictures.
Also the body seem at the front of the rear wheel well looks like it needs to be either cut or bent over with a BFHj

Where else were you rubbing? What kinda backspacing with how thick were your tires?

Anything that couldn't be solved with wheel spacers? ( Or just wheels with less backspacing?)


Does the inside of your tire rub at full suspension travel?
Spacing the wheels out would probably help with that.
But if you do that then do you get rubbing on the top of the tire?

And is it bad rubbing? Rubbing a tire accross smooth plastic might sound bad but isn't going to hurt anything.
Especially since you can just engage the lockers and keep putting power to the ground.

My old Toyota was set up that way, aussie locker in the front with big fat tires that would rub at full stuff, but didn't do anything other than make noise.

 

I don't disconnect so my "full flex" may be different than others. But as much as i can get my stock suspension sahara to flex on the old washes and logging roads of the Black Hills I dont rub except for on a couple of occasions and then only slightly at the edge of the front fenders. Flats would fix this but so would any type of lift.

I did trim the pinch seem (pounded it back on itself for a finished smooth edge actually) as others have mentioned as well as the plastic airdam for turning radius.

The description is in my sig - the things to be mindful of though is the backspacing 4.5 as mentioned and not all 35s are created equal. Mine actually measure 34.7 inches at the current tread with the weight of the vehicle on them and 36 psi of air in them. I have the tow package and hard top so my spring rate is a bit higher than a softop X without the tow package would be. There are a lot of little things like that that shift the dynamics of whether or not "35s will fit"

I see yours is a Rubi but if it is a hardtop and tow package will matter more than the model (given your comparing with other 2-doors) for spring rate anyway.

 

Dual tops and tow package, so yeah it is the heavier springs.

I actually think it's a little unbalanced as in too stiff at the rear, even with the hardtop on.
Feels like the rear suspension pushes the front around on flex.
I may try and souce some lighter rear springs.

Anyway, thanks!

 

Anyone got a photo of the pinch seem? I'm planing on running 35's on my rubi with flat fenders untill i'm done school and can afford my lift.

 

^ I would also be interested in seeing this.