Yup, ordered a set of 20" wheels today, and I'm going to slap some 11.00-20's or 12.00-20's on the 715. 44" tall truck tires with a medium traction tread. Is there some kind of 12 step program for this? I can rationalize it really well. It's gonna help the freeway speed and the towing performance of my Cummins powered M-715. All in all though I have to question my sanity. I don't know what I'm gonna have to do with the CJ. I can't have bigger meats on the tow rig than I do on the rock rig now can I?

My other car is a bulldozer!

That would more commonly be refered to as "Sacrilage"

i would hate to have to turn 44's while pulling my jeep/trailer. hope it is geared for it.

brian wilson
80 cj5 "high 5"
stretched to 100" wb
vortec350/4L80E/d300/d60fr/14br/detroits/4.56/38's

It has 4.56's in it. The main point of doing this is to get 60-65 out of 4th gear at 2300-2400 rpm. Right now I have to be in OD at those kind of speeds. That's fine on the flats, but it's hard on the tranny on hills. More importantly my EGT gets high and I have to back out and downshift to 1:1. I want to make 4th a useable gear while towing. That way I can make decent speed on the uphills.

4.56 is as far as I can go (5.87 stock) without swapping axles. The early Dana 70 has a different pinion offset and I can't get a high speed carrier for it.

My other car is a bulldozer!

utah jeeper, where did you get the wide rims from with the odd bolt pattern?

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