I know a few of you have grenaded your front diffs and I think most have been running bigger tires.
I just thought I would share some info that I got from a friend that works for ARB. He said that most aluminum/alloy diffs don't do well with a marginally bigger tire size of even 1-2" bigger than stock. This is the case with Toyota and Jeep as well.
Before I even knew about the grenading issues, I had planned on keeping the stock tire size but switching to a BFG AT. I have been running the same size tire for over 5 years on my Rover and never needed anything bigger. I also ran 32s on my first Xterra. Granted on both of those vehicles I had to deal with the speedo being off and mileage sucking ass. It will be nice to not have to worry about the extra expense of a 33" or bigger tire and worrying about lost MPG, extra wear on components, possible diff grenading, and speedo correction..... all for a half inch of extra height.
I don't want to start a flame war with this post, but would just like anyone who is potentially in the market for different tires to keep this under consideration. I think a few folks that have gone to the 285/75/16 wish they would have gone to 265/75 instead.
I just thought I would share some info that I got from a friend that works for ARB. He said that most aluminum/alloy diffs don't do well with a marginally bigger tire size of even 1-2" bigger than stock. This is the case with Toyota and Jeep as well.
Before I even knew about the grenading issues, I had planned on keeping the stock tire size but switching to a BFG AT. I have been running the same size tire for over 5 years on my Rover and never needed anything bigger. I also ran 32s on my first Xterra. Granted on both of those vehicles I had to deal with the speedo being off and mileage sucking ass. It will be nice to not have to worry about the extra expense of a 33" or bigger tire and worrying about lost MPG, extra wear on components, possible diff grenading, and speedo correction..... all for a half inch of extra height.
I don't want to start a flame war with this post, but would just like anyone who is potentially in the market for different tires to keep this under consideration. I think a few folks that have gone to the 285/75/16 wish they would have gone to 265/75 instead.