As if your truck isn't high enough now you got it climbing trees

 

I need to get my truck dirty too...Had to postpone gears due to having to replace AC unit at my house..sucks.

 

my tow mirrors came in today. Holy buckets these things are HUGE...

 

I have been wanting to get a set of those mirrors for some time. Just have not pulled the plug yet. They would be nice when pulling the boat, might be a pain to park in the garage though.

 

sweet post up picks when they are on Jeremy


And Jim that sucks majorly but I still think you should have went with the gears, then you could have just pulled the house around with the windows open to "air condition" it

 

Yeah that is one thing I should probably look at doing soon is install some new gears. I have 3.55's and was thinking of going up to 4.10's or 4.30's. I read it puts less stress on the tranny when installing bigger tires especially when going WOT.

 

Yes re-gearing will help to take added stress off of the drive train. Big tires put a lot of strain on the drive train. Some of the tires can easily hit 100lbs which is a lot of mass to get rolling.

If you are planing on running 35's or larger don't waist your money going with anything less then 4.56. With a 35" tire and 4.56 gears your truck would be very close to stock as far as stresses being applied on the drive train. Truth be told it would actually be closer to a 4.30 something but they do not make a reverse cut 4.30 gear for the front diff on the 4x4 trucks. And if you are even toying with the idea of 38's then you really will want to consider 4.88 gears

 

My tires are 33.35” right now 325/60R/18. I don’t plan on going any bigger, at least not any time soon. Stock I have 3.55 gears. I was considering going up to 4.10’s gears. I will have to call around today to see the cost for having someone install a set.

 

A general quote will run you about $700 per axle to have them done. The 4.10's will be a little more noticeable but still if you have any thought you may possibly go with a bigger tire then you would definitely want to bump it up. Most of the time when people go with a bigger tire they also get them wider which is where a lot of the weight comes from.

 

Any one going on the taco run today? I brought my bike in from Fremont to join in on the run today. I haven't been on it yet. Today is my first run. Some friends at work and I are going about 4:30 today.

 

Wouldn’t 4.56 gears be too much for 33” tires? I like the idea of throwing on a 6” lift some day, but I am not sure I ever will. The cost, in addition to buying 35” tires puts it out of my range for now, plus I have many other things I want to do first. For now I just don’t want to shorten the life of my engine and tranny because I threw on 33” tires over the 30” stock tires.

 

Yes, I will be on the Taco run tonight. My friend and I, along with our 2 boys will be parking in the lot just before the Wabash Trace entrance just down the street from the Iowa School for the Deaf. We are meeting there at 4:30pm also, but I will be their early so I can find a good spot to park. Just look for my truck. Don't forget to bring $1 encase they have people at the beginning of the trail collecting a trail fee.

 

If you are only bumping up to 33's you shouldn't have any issues are you planing on running a really wide tire 13.5 or bigger? Even then I don't you will have a really bad problem with excessive strain. I would say that if you are considering re-gearing that going from 3.55's to 4.10's will give you a little less strain but you will really not notice much. Your mpgs will go down a little at highway speeds the higher into the gears you get. But if you have a lot of rotating mass aka big tires they will get them moving easier from a stop and use less gas.

I think if you are considering 33's just get them and run them on the truck. If you feel like the truck is working to hard or bogging down to much for your liking then consider gears. But I am pretty positive you will have no problems running 33's with stock gearing.

And Steada,
I would love to go but there is no way I could make the drive from Lincoln in time.

 

Boz - I agree with 05. Running your 33's now with stock gearing isn't going to hurt anything except for a bit of fuel economy. If you go any bigger than 33's then I would recommending spending the money on re-gearing. But for now - when you weigh the cost of regearing just for using 33" tires, it's not worth the money in my opinion. As jump_n will tell you - he is running 35" tires with stock 3.55 gears. Truck drives ok - just lost a bit of power and when pulling a larger incline it will downshift. He is eventually going to 4.56's like mentioned above. If you want to get some of your power back - I would spend some money on an Edge or Gryphon programmer first. That will help to restore some of your lost power and fuel economy, plus it makes the transmission shift incredibly better than the sloppy stock programming shift points. And you can re-dial in your speedometer if it is off a little bit now because of the slightly bigger tires too. I ran 35's on my 2007 with the stock 3.73 gears for over a year - no issues. Lost some power yes, but the edge helped bring that back. I was perfectly happy with the way the truck drove. Wasn't worth the almost +/-$1,500 to regear for such a 'slight' improvement to me. Plus, you having an '09, you have a factory powertrain warranty for 5 years/60k miles.

 

I already have the tires on. I didn’t notice a big difference from the stock tires except for when I am at a red light and it takes a bit to get going, but I don’t drive my truck like a sports car, so it doesn’t bother me. If I don’t need to regear, then I probably won’t. I am not sure how wide my tires are, my guess is around 9”-10”. I don’t think they are 13.5” wide or bigger. I don’t plan on going any bigger or wider.