33 inch tires
#11
i have an x with 3.73 gears and went to 33's. it's a pain to get it to go uphill and i basically just leave the O/D off to give it a little extra power. going up a slight incline at 60ish is enough to make it struggle. around town it's fine though but on the highway commuting it's annoying. 4.10's would probably be okay for 33's.
#12
Let's get some clarification on all of this. Changing tires does NOT change gear ratios. No how, no way no where, no time. A 4.10 gear is a 4.10 gear, now and forever. Now, what changing tires DOES change is called the "effective" ratio. In other words, the FINAL drive ratio. We all know (I hope), that a larger tire takes longer to rotate one RPM at the same speed as a smaller one. So, when we put larger tires on a vehicle whose FINAL drive ratio is 4.10, we change the final (effective) drive ratio to a higher gear. Gears are confusing. The numerically higher the gear, the "lower" the gear, and the numerically lower the gear, the "higher" the gear. In other words a 4.10 is a lower gear than a 3.73.