thinking about eventually making the switch to 33's and a four inch lift. Its my dd so im wondering how much of an impact it might have on gas mileage. anybody had a before and after and know how much worse it was?
I run 33s on about a 5in lift with stock gears (as far as I know) & I get about 16mpg & that's with a fullsize spare, winch, heavy as all get out front/rear bumpers & hard top. Seems like decent gas mileage to me. Oh & it's a 6cyl w/manual tranny.
i have a 4 banger with 33's and a 4 inch lift. its my daily driver. i tend to stay away from the highway as its fairly difficult to get it up to 100 kph. it likes to stay around 80. as for mileage it kinda sucks. i had 31's on when it was stock and it was a fair bit better then. i went driving on some logging roads for about 4 hours non stop today and went through about 20$ in gas. hope that gives you an idea.
i do wheel often, and im trying to decide if the drop in economy outweighs the boost in performance offroad. i would probably do it but im worried i wont be able to afford to wheel as often because there are really no spots within an hour of where i live. for that reason, trips will end up costing a lot more. Anybody with a 4 cyl yj on 33's that can tell me what gas mileage they get in town and on the highway?
Just to give you an idea, I went from 31's to 33's last week, and filled the tank the same day. Normally I would get 230-250kms for $35 which is about 1/2 a tank depending on the day. I filled the tank when I put the new tires on and it is about 3/8s of a tank left on 211kms driven. So that should be about 170kms for half a tank if I did my math right. Take that with a grain of salt due to inaccuracies of the guage. I am still running 3.07s but will be going to 4.11s in about a week or two.
P.S I am too lazy to do the conversion to mpg
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