New Fender Flares

[ReconH3]

5.38 gear ratio is what all the Jeeps are running with 40" tires and that is pretty much on par with most other trucks for 40" tires too. How are you guys coming up with 5.8 or 6.XX for that matter? Dynatrac also only goes to 5.38 gears unless they did something really out of the ordinary and special just for your H3 Recon?

Truck was originally geared with 4.88 for 37s. Had it regeared here in NC at East Coast Gear Supply.

 

[ReconH3]

Part of the fender conversation got started with Panzer07 due to his wanting to run 42" tires and I was explaining that per our conversation Recon that the 40" tires are at full stuff rubbing in the rear even with your axle perfectly centered. He wanted to trim fenders to fit the 42" tires. Have you ever been in an off road situation Recon or Chris 06H3 that you really said to yourself darn my 40" tires are just too small I need to go to 42" tires :giggle:

Never felt I needed anything larger than 40". 40" is already a very tight fit. 42" will definitely require quite a bit of hacking.

 

[Panzer07]

Thank you all for the imput 40"s are mainly my goal...but for the reasons mentioned before I've been toying with the idea of 42", 2" bigger and 1 wider seems like a decent deal when they are only 5lbs heavier and $40 more...but again nothing is been decided...i do plan to eventually go with D60 but damn things are too expensive...and most of them aren't passenger drop, another reason why I plan to run one later most likely after I do a motor swap I'll have a different tcase with driver side drop so I can run a driver side axles drop...im with 5.13 gears in the rear and will be regearing the front to match as soon as I get the time to. As well my plan for the fender flares is orientated on a construction of ruber or polyurethane so they can take a beating and I don't have to worry about bended flares or broken the h3 oem fenders seen to absorbs some hits pretty well...i can imagine a polyurethane fender flare do much better. The front is the easy part on designing a flare the rear one is the one is a bit trickier since you have the gas hole on the driver side and it is built in the fender, probably will have to fab something similar to what the wranglers have.

 

[humvee]

Its ridiculous how much power Amr's truck has. While accelerating, you can see the front 35s swaying and struggling to stay mounted on their hubs.
It looked and sounded like his 3 was about to take off.

 

[RamRod]

Sounds like a good problem to have!

 

[jbrand11]

Any progress on the OP's fender flares