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Rear gears, which to get and why, pros and cons with each

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Not sure if you are asking about squatch or not, but here's what the calculator shows:
2200 rpm (+/- 20rpm) for the 4.70 gears and 2100 rpm (+/- 20rpm) for the 4.46's
Yes squatch. Since I'm already planning on swapping out the tires/wheels after taking delivery I was contemplating running the 4.70 gears w/ 33" KO2s on aftermarket wheels instead since this badsquatch will be my wife's (she's 5'1" and Im not installing steps) daily driver and one of our weekend trail rigs. That 1" is a big difference for her and will already have the 4.70 gearing for is she wants 35s down the road.
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Yes squatch. Since I'm already planning on swapping out the tires/wheels after taking delivery I was contemplating running the 4.70 gears w/ 33" KO2s on aftermarket wheels instead since this badsquatch will be my wife's (she's 5'1" and Im not installing steps) daily driver and one of our weekend trail rigs. That 1" is a big difference for her and will already have the 4.70 gearing for is she wants 35s down the road.
Those figures are with an actual size of 32.1 (I run the same 285/70 KO2s on my wrangler)
If you get a closer to actual size 33" (Cooper, Nitto, Toyo are all a little bigger in real life) RPMs drop to about 2170 at 70mph

You may be money ahead to NOT squatch it at all, you'll already have the KO2s in the size you are looking at, wheels are still pretty cheap, and the 100rpm difference isn't worth losing sleep over..
 

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Those figures are with an actual size of 32.1 (I run the same 285/70 KO2s on my wrangler)
If you get a closer to actual size 33" (Cooper, Nitto, Toyo are all a little bigger in real life) RPMs drop to about 2170 at 70mph

You may be money ahead to NOT squatch it at all, you'll already have the KO2s in the size you are looking at, wheels are still pretty cheap, and the 100rpm difference isn't worth losing sleep over..
Yeah that's really the only thing I'm flipping back and forth on right now. To squatch or notsquatch.
 

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Yeah that's really the only thing I'm flipping back and forth on right now. To squatch or notsquatch.
I HATE the squatch wheels, and with 285s, the wide flares may look extra silly.. I'd pocket the $2500, buy some wheels your wife likes and if I needed the extra 100 rpm, thats what 9th gear is for..

If you're going 2.7, the 35s shouldn't be awful on 4.46's and there is always the 305/70r17 to split the difference.
 

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I HATE the squatch wheels, and with 285s, the wide flares may look extra silly.. I'd pocket the $2500, buy some wheels your wife likes and if I needed the extra 100 rpm, thats what 9th gear is for..

If you're going 2.7, the 35s shouldn't be awful on 4.46's and there is always the 305/70r17 to split the difference.
Yes, going 2.7. Good point on the flares, I didn't see the squatch flares in person, only the regular flares on the BL. When you sit my 35" jeep and truck tires next to her current grand cherokee 32" KO2s, there's a pretty big difference and she sees that comparison every day, so I'm not going to force 35s on her.
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