Posts by moshjarcus

Does the brands of gears make a difference?

I've seen USA, Nitro and Yukon so far.

I'm buying 4.56 gears, other than Pirate who else has good deals????

Has anyone else had experience with switching a D35 to D44 and having to shorten or lengthen their driveshaft?

With a stock D44, experience with lockers and such, do I need to upgrade my axle shafts? What would you recomend for a locker in a D44 in the rear, without going air/electrical lockers....

Or instead of putting a locker in the rear of my D44, do I put in in my D30 in the front? Do I have to upgrade shafts?

This is good news. Maybe I can get away with the one I have....

Quote from Diablo

Then go for it. I don't know what your financial situation is, but if you can't afford it then .

Hopefully, with this I can.

Have you guys noticed an increase in MPG with re gearing??

I really don't desire to keep the 3.73s. I'd love to go 4.56.

I've found a D44 with 3.73's a few hours away, that came out of a 04 TJ. It only had 50K original miles on it before it was taken out. Open diff.

It probably would be in my best interest to buy this one, its got the gears i need and I imagine I'd have to get my driveshaft shortened.

This way I don't have to un-bolt both axles and get them someplace to be re-geared, then re-bolt them both in. I can get them re-geared and I maybe can even put a locker in it later down the line.

I'm still looking at possibilities, but this is a serious one.

So lets get some ideas going. If you had $1800 how would you fix the axle? Everything fixed...

Quote from Spedly

I'd let mine go for not much more then the buy it now. It needs brackets welded on too like I said before.

So if I buy yours I have to cut off the triangulated link, put on new brackets for the upper and lower control arms, maybe shock mounts?....and then do I have to do anything to my driveshaft? I currently have a Tom Woods driveshaft with the D35. I still have the stock one in a box....BUT i don't think that'd be necessary. And then naturally I have to regear my front end. Any idea how much that runs?

Is 4.88 gonna be to much with my automagical tranny?

Would this work???

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors…m45f7d72399#ht_500wt_1182

Whats the width gotta be? I can't find it online???

Quote from astape

Take a good look at the carrier. I'm betting it has a crack in it. When a d35 starts to fail repeatedly then it is either from a cracked carrier or bent housing. There is just not enough mass on the d35 carrier to keep it from flexing under heavy load.

aaron

Oh but how right you are sir.

It does have a hole in it. This was what we found the last time -- the gears destroyed them selves but it appeared nothing else. Figured the carrier might be okay for a little while. I bet it's flexing now. Pretty crazy, looked like a bullet whole went through it.

So on that note, I'm looking.

Astape, I'll be PMing you.

Wonder if I could get this welded brackets on and make this work??

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors…fAccessories#ht_772wt_941

Quote from whatevah

it'll be weird if it's the spiders, they were just replaced back in the summer. I'm guessing the housing is flexing a bit changing the tolerances in the diff.

Well...it's officially weird. I opened up the differential today and found it looks like the spiders. I found the smallest spider pin had broken and it was sitting on the bottom of the differential. I haven't done anything but open it up. Debating on my plan of attack.

The clip for the axle was on the bottom of the diff as well.....and the spacer was bent.

What could have caused this? Improper positioning? Something bent?

Quote from Keith_C

I still think he's talking out his ass.

The brackets for 2 axles would run $400-500 easy.

Some rather confusing PM exchanging going on....

Quote from JEEPKID

RIGHT so thats why I say 600 so you will have to buy gears and we can put them in

So your saying I can get front and rear axles installed, welded and the whole shi-bang if I buy the gears and you install them fro $600? Where is Bozos off road? I've never heard of you, us, them?

Quote from Keith_C

I would talk to "Astape" first.

Good plan.

Who can I have weld / help me install this if I was to obtain an 8.8??

Quote from quadna

It might be a combination of larger tires, the fact that a D35 is the weaker axle, and driving like you stole it while responding.

Heh, not right now. Work has taken a lot of my volunteer time. I've been babying it to get every bit above 12MPG right now. I've been getting pretty successful.

Quote from Keith_C

Hopefully, that's all it is.

Not a real expensive fix considering the other possibilities.

Yea, really hoping. I haven't opened it up yet. I got it home last night.

How much are we talking to get a D44 in the rear if I got my hands on one from a junkyard. Like shock brackets and short arm mounts? How much and where can I get that work done?

I hit 100,000 miles last night. At 100,041turned into Newark Shopping Center and heard a bang, similar to the last time I blew the spider gears out. Then after I left it did it again. Parked the jeep......now waiting to get off tonight and hopefully tow it to my house to open it up.

Hoping its not badly damaged.

What could cause repeated breaks of spider gears? It's a D35 with 3.73 gears.

Anyone have a D44 or 8.8???

Hmm. Wonder how accurate that is. I'd like to monitor my MPG....I wonder if thats capabable?

Could you log multiple vehicles. I could use that for work....

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Download Lookout for an APP. It's a great app...and you can locate the phone via web page. Also on mylookout.com