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BayouGold:
I was looking into getting 4.56's on my tj (dana 30 f/35 r) & saw I would have to get bigger differential housing for those gears. Has anyone else had this problem or is it a ploy to get you to spend more money?

albsvx:
it's not the housing, it's the carrier ... I'm not exactly sure where the cutoff is for each model, but it's not unusual.

One thing about doing gears, is that if you're not skilled/daring enough to do them yourself, the install labor is rather expensive, and it becomes a slippery slope.  Once you are going to pay somebody the expensive labor to setup gears, you might as well install a locker at the same time, and if you're going to spend that much money, spending it on a Dana 35 is like throwing it in the garbage, so you might as well upgrade your whole rear axle while you're at it.  It gets real expensive, real fast.

BayouGold:
thanks for the tip alb. I saw an add for a new dana 44 with arb air locker for right at $2500. is that reasonable? the whole rear assembly

HOT-ROD:
CTAXLE.com is your best bet. Pete knows everything about all that stuff. call or e-mail. he will make recomendations and accomodate your budget the best he can. but he wont set you up to break or come back. he is too busy to have bad business and or give someone bad info so thier rig breaks.

or swap axles like you seemed to be interested in.

rocket:

--- Quote from: BayouGold on March 18, 2008, 03:13:31 AM ---thanks for the tip alb. I saw an add for a new dana 44 with arb air locker for right at $2500. is that reasonable? the whole rear assembly


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Is it complete (axels, housing, gears, brakes, etc)?  Then its about right for price.  I just bought a whole new rear end for the beast, compete, inc disk brakes for a little more that that. (no locker, just posi, but the wilwood disk brakes add a little to the price)

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