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Old Jan 27, 2004 | 07:09 PM
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34 inch tires

Who makes 34 inch tires? Prefer 34x12.5 but ill take 34x10.5. Im putting a 4" lift on the bronco, ive heard alot of ppl say that 35s will fit fine. I dont want 33s and im kinda leary (sp) about the 35s rubbing on the fenders. The only offroading i do is mud, no rocks and no trails. So i was wondering who makes 34s, that way im in between what i know will fit and what everyone else says will fit .


Oh and ive already posted in the suspension and tires forum, so please dont delete me or move me, lol.
 
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Old Jan 27, 2004 | 09:12 PM
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Never heard of a 34" tire, so I don't want to say they don't exist, call a tire outfit and check with them, they would know for sure. If not. You could get a 2" body along with the 4" suspension and have plenty of room for 35s, or go with the 6" suspension.
 

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Old Jan 28, 2004 | 09:35 AM
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NO BODY LIFT! 90ebbronc, someday i am doing the same mod. i am getting a 4" lift with 34" and 4.56 or 4.11's. the only 34's i have seen are swamper tsl's. i know they sell them in 9.5-10.5-12.5" widths. i love the tall skinny look!
 
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Old Jan 28, 2004 | 12:38 PM
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after looking it up, SS is the only one i could find as well. Is the 34x12.5 even tall and skinny? They look like pizza cutters, lol. Man it looks like u could flip easier with tall skinny tires instead of wide tires.
 
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Old Jan 28, 2004 | 02:03 PM
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I feel that the taller and skinier the better for rock crawling (in my opinion), not much more of a roll-over risk i feel.

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Old Jan 28, 2004 | 04:43 PM
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I stay away from rocks, lol. Rocks does body damage ..... not my cup of tea.
 
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Old Jan 28, 2004 | 05:16 PM
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If you Mud then you want the wider ones. Right?
 
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Old Jan 28, 2004 | 05:39 PM
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yup!
 
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Old Jan 28, 2004 | 08:04 PM
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How would a 34x12.50 be any skinner than a 35x12.50? I know that the Super Swamper LBT comes in 34x10.50x15 which is skinny, The SS MT/TrXus comes in 34x12.50x15, and the TSL comes in 34x9.50x15. The Mickey Thompson Baja Belted comes in 34x11.50x16 and 34x14.50x16 and 34x11.50x17.
that is all I could find
 
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Old Jan 29, 2004 | 01:06 AM
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You want a prety wide foot print when you crawl rocks, I always enjoyed wide tires. They also put the trucks foot print wider so you have less risk of rollover.
Thats the whole theory, if you go taller, then you must go wider to compensate.
 
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Old Jan 29, 2004 | 09:27 AM
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Depends on the mud, GA red clay and sand you go wider for flotation... there is no bottom. Back home in OK though the skinny tires worked fine, everything out there has a rock bottom, so the skinny tires dug in and found it... The 35's rubbed just a tad on my bronco with the body lift but when I went to the 4" suspension lift and doubled the front shocks it leveled it and took that sag out of the front, they haven't rubbed since. I had Swampers on mine for a long time... But since I don't rock crawl with it I couldn't see needing that heavy ply tire anymore so I put 35X12.50 Mud Kings on last time and they are great. Bi-Directional tread, radial... you get great traction forward and reverse, and you can rotate them like any other tire so you can really get some miles out of them. I've got 34,000 on these so far, they make the drive from Atlanta to the soggy bottoms of OK every year at duck season and ride great at 80+ mph on the interstate. Have someone set you up with the right wheels so you get the right offset and the tires shouldn't rub... Mine stick out about 2 to 2-1/2 inches past the fenders... And the wider stance is more stable. I've never had any problems with it wanting to roll... even when I lost my spiders and carrier going down the highway and my back passenger axle, drum, and tire came out of the tube... if it was ever gonna roll it would have done it then, when it was a tricycle.
 
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