4 cyl.in a jeep strong enough?

4 cylinders are supposed to have a lot of torque. As long as you don't go too big with the tires you'll be fine.

Im running a 4 banger stock with 35's 4:88 on the gears and i run the crap out of this thing,,,she never skips a beat ;D,,,just lose the D35

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4 banger is great on the trail, but dont plan on doing much over 60 mph on the hwy, especially with big tires

Shoot, I can hit 70 with a good tailwind!! ;D

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4 banger is great on the trail, but dont plan on doing much over 60 mph on the hwy, especially with big tires

thats what regearing is for.

4.88's 33's 4cyl ive seen 85mph before when i was still on BB and JKS BL. Now that I'm RE 3.5 i dont do much over 70, but i can hit it easily.

i run 33's with 4.56 and i can do 80 if its flat if not its 50 but then again going 80 is scary

well thats not necessarily the correct gearing choice for 33's and a 4cyl.. maybe 35's and a 6 cyl. But the recommended gear ratio for a 2.5L with 33's is 4.88's..

yes i know... im swapping in a 4.0 this spring

plus he can put in whatever he wants, there is no standard. besides what about the guys running 35's with the 4 banger... what should they run 5.13? their is a point at which you cant gear it any more... besides i got a great deal on the 4.56 and they work great

the 4cy will be fine, if you feel its sluggish than regear, i ran the 4.10s w 33's for 6 months it wasent that bad at all. just took a little longer to get the old girl up to speed. the 4.56s just leveld the playing field to compesate.

you can get really low gears like 7.17 in a dana 70

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yes i know... im swapping in a 4.0 this spring

plus he can put in whatever he wants, there is no standard. besides what about the guys running 35's with the 4 banger... what should they run 5.13? their is a point at which you cant gear it any more... besides i got a great deal on the 4.56 and they work great

the 4cy will be fine, if you feel its sluggish than regear, i ran the 4.10s w 33's for 6 months it wasent that bad at all. just took a little longer to get the old girl up to speed. the 4.56s just leveld the playing field to compesate.

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whatever floats your boat bro

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whatever floats your boat bro

it works well

I'm running a 4 Cly on my Cj with a 4.5 lift and 32's. I plan to upgrade to 33's when the other ones wear down. I don't have any problems with her. She gets up and goes sometimes faster then a modern car or truck. But I baby it so I don't do much of that... Anyhow the 33,000 only orig. miles might be a factor as well. The other thing is I don't have power steering installed yet. So that may slow it down a bit. I tried a Yj with a 258 manual and had trouble getting used to it. Love the heart she's got now.

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geo trackers come with 5.13 gears

so now we comapre geo trackers to jeeps... haha