LT285/70R17 on Commander with 2" Lift and 1.5" Spacers

ChadErway said:

Thanks for the info. I had read about the "pinch weld modification" but wasn't sure what that was, and I'm not really interested in doing that. I'd like the biggest tires I can reasonably put on my Commander with the 2" lift and 1.5" spacers, though I hadn't taken the engine into consideration so I appreciate the heads up on that. In the original thread I had read it was sounds like the 255/75R17's would also require hammer down the pinch weld (as they said it), so I was thinking that 265/70R17s might work?

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ChadErway said:

Thanks for the info. Currently, I'm running the stock Jeep rims, and I don't have any plans to change those out, but I am installing 1.5" spacers. How do I go about measuring my backspacing? I was thinking about doing the pinch weld mod, but if I don't have to do that, then so much the better

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ChadErway said:

I found an old thread talking about the biggest size tire you could install on a Commander with a 2" lift. I'm at the point of getting my Jeep some new tires and I was looking at the Venom Power Terra Hunter X/T in LT285/70R17. Venom's website says the OD of the tire is 32.44" but from reading the old post about 2" lifts, I wasn't clear if going over 32" would or wouldn't work with a 2" lift and 1.5" spacers. I'd be interested to know if anyone else has run this size tire, and if anyone had any knowledge of the Venom Power tires as a whole, they're new to me, but they look damned cool.

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