Mickey Thompson Legend EXP 35s Installed- Gravel Road Living

[jpmzville]

Both of you

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[rhaney02]

Nice ride, what brand and size lift did you install?

Thanks

Mopar/Fox 2" lift with RC 3/4" spacers to even out the rake a little
Mopar/Fox 2.0 steering stabilizer
Yeti adj. front track bar
Synergy front adj. lower control arms 'cause the the supplied Mopar fixed arms didn't give me enough caster

 

[DanW]

That may have more to do
with contingency money
and free tires
than with style.

Whatever the reason, they look cool because they are race cars.

 

[rhaney02]

White letters in
means you are probably a Boomer.

White letters out
is what all the kids are doing now.

Does early Gen X count?

 

[69charged]

I loved white letters out! That’s all I did with BFG’s on my tacomas back in the day. 1996ish.
I am going to C rated 37” BFG’s this time and man I wish I could get white letters on them!!
Trucks looks good!!!

 

[loganjeeps]

White letters in
means you are probably a Boomer.

White letters out
is what all the kids are doing now.

funny i have always done white letters out and thought it made me look old. all the old dudes comment how it reminds them of their CJs with BFGs. haven't had any young ladies compliment them

 

[Jaxmax]

White letters in
means you are probably a Boomer.

White letters out
is what all the kids are doing now.

WHAT! ARE YA KIDDING ME?
Boomers are white letter out, even my company work truck is on it's third set of white letter tires at 215,000, due for another set soon, also will be white letters!
Butt my Falkens are black wall cause I know what the rocks would do to white letters, which would become wide white walls, and that's way before us Boomers!! Jonathan the Jeep looks great!
Jack a Boomer made in 1957!

Boomers The Badass Generation before all you other sissies were born!

 

[davey]

My 2025 JTM is still pretty new to me (~1500 miles), but I knew immediately I was going to want 35s. I don’t have any plans to lift at this point. Outside of driving around the woods of our property, I’m not wheeling this thing.

We have a couple miles of gravel to get to our property, and the stock Wildpeaks were doing a good job of throwing that gravel at my Jeep .

I wanted to get a mild poke on the rims w some 0-offset Turbomacs (and I’ve always wanted to try bronze), but I was worried about throwing even more gravel!

My theory behind picking the Mickey Thompson EXPs was that I’d retain enough AT properties to survive wet/winter conditions, but that the wider shoulder blocks would not partake in the stone throwing.

After installing & doing a few test drives, this appears to be playing out! The inner AT pattern still picks & throws gravel, but the shoulder blocks do not. And, even with the 0-offset 8.5” Turbomacs adding a couple of inches of poke , the inner tread block still sits shy of the fender edge, so the fender is catching nearly all of the stones. I’m very happy w this!

Aside from doing a better job protecting my paint, the tires appear to be close to “true” 35s in size; I picked up about 1.8” of height over the stock Falkens (which measure short of 33”). They are slightly louder than the Wildpeaks, but the JT isn’t my daily drive so, who cares! She rides naked whenever possible anyways.

Ride is fantastic, still retains the awesome Mojave handling and I haven’t noticed any difference in acceleration. The total weight is ~94lbs per wheel, so I’ve only added about 4ish lbs of unsprung weight.

I’ve never done white letters out, but I was inspired by the Honcho concept which I may try to emulate over time.

looks great.. I also live end of gravel road I did those fender extensions and they helped 90% but like you my tires are the problem..

 

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[K2SOFrancisco]

Oem tires & wheels are 90lbs ?

 

[jpmzville]

Oem tires & wheels are 90lbs ?

as weighed by another forum member, yes

 

[Stan H]

Oem tires & wheels are 90lbs ?

On which Gladiator? Sport,Rubicon, max tow sport , Mojave, Overland, Nighthawk,beach edition Rubicon X Mojave X etc..etc..

 

[K2SOFrancisco]

On which Gladiator? Sport,Rubicon, max tow sport , Mojave, Overland, Nighthawk,beach edition Rubicon X Mojave X etc..etc..

OP has a Mojave, so do I, assuming that we are talking about a Mojave or Rubicon at least given the fact that oem 33” only comes in those 2 trims.

 

[Stan H]

OP has a Mojave, so do I, assuming that we are talking about a Mojave or Rubicon at least given the fact that oem 33” only comes in those 2 trims.

Factory rims were about 43 pounds the tires i dont know

 

[Morris]

OP the setup looks great.

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