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my brother has a 2.8 diesel he wants o put either 32 or 33s what are you opinions willl the 2.8 have enough power?

with stock suspension the 33's will rub pretty bad. the 2.8 will turn them ok but the loss of torque will be noticable, unless he needs the approach/rampover of 33's for more hardcore stuff go the 32's.

I have 32 at the moment and the 2.8 handels them OK.
Makes me wish for a turbo though
If he wants to put on 33s chuck in some diff centres from a petrol lux (4.88 ratio) and it will bring his gearing back to standard (or close anyway).
Paul.

i had 33's on my 2.8 with standard gears 4 months and never worried it.. yeah it had extractors and that but it wasnt that noticable.. go the 33's he will regret buying the 32's and realise like a month down the trck he should have got 33's

i competed against a hilux that was runnin 33x12.5 muddies he had a stock standard 2.8 turbo and he recon with a little bit of turbo tweekin that the 2.8 runs awesome with 33's and that he said he plans on goin bigger id like to see that tryin to climb a steep incline

ausyota - what suspension mods have you done? my brother doesn't want to drive the truck on the road so he can go pretty soft spring for articulation, he and i are building it up the truck to drive only off road.

At the moment my suspension is CRAP I have IFS front end.
But soon to be swapped out for a solid diff .
I did a 40mm body lift to clear the 32s and put some longer shackles and shockies in to give a bit more lift.
Ask me about my suspension in a few months time.
Im planning on my lux being a flexy biatch.
Paul.

I have 2" susp lift with 33's........Scrapes the inner guards at full articulation with the wheels turned slightly. Power doesnt get affected too much. I have extractors also.

go with the 33"s i run 33"'s with a stock standard 2.8 and its ok on the road and once your in low ratio you wont notice the differnce, as for clearence i have a 2" susp lift and the tyres scrub the inner guard a bit, but nothing to drastic, one day ill fit my 2" body lift which will sort the prob.

the Silver bullet Lux was running 36 swampers with the stock engine a tuff truck last year.

yes but at tuff truck the silver bullet had crawler transfer gears - still an impressive effort for a 2.2 slug.

now the silver bullet has a 2.4 with aftermarket turbo running 12psi, and 35" simexs - sounds and goes pretty hard. no more transfer gears though :(


Iknow how hard it goes cos a couple of weeks after I installed the motor and turbo I had to put new gears in the rear diff. no more locker burnouts!

dumbdunce wrote:yes but at tuff truck the silver bullet had crawler transfer gears - still an impressive effort for a 2.2 slug.

now the silver bullet has a 2.4 with aftermarket turbo running 12psi, and 35" simexs - sounds and goes pretty hard. no more transfer gears though :(


Iknow how hard it goes cos a couple of weeks after I installed the motor and turbo I had to put new gears in the rear diff. no more locker burnouts!

So this is your rig or you just did some work on it?

nar tony he just did the mods sounds like he owns it tho dunno why you would want a 2.4 hilux in the first place

maty wrote:my brother has a 2.8 diesel he wants o put either 32 or 33s what are you opinions willl the 2.8 have enough power?

It will have enough power to turn the 33s off road.

ruff no not mine, like jake said I've just done some work on it. Denny Danis is the owner/driver.


I've seen what that truck has been through, I wouldn't want it!!





EDIT: spelled Denny's name wrong!

i have a 2.2 deisel
and i turn 32 just fine
no worries but
i have 4.88 diffs