Jeeping tends to be pay to play. Only you can answer if the cost is worth it to you. Leaving my personal opinion and experience on whether or not ECGS can build an axle to your specs aside, I think your best budget friendly option will be sticking with the 35 and adding a super kit to it.
Why not?
We already have Blaine's report. Maybe @Garza can share his experience with the S35.Has anyone seen the super 35 kits break? Just wondering what kind of terrain/driving style was used to break them or bend the shafts.
Converting properly functioning rear drum brakes to disk won't help braking, though the BIg Brake kit from Black Magic definitely will. Properly functioning drum brakes in the rear brake just as well as disk brakes do.and then maybe $500 for rear disc brake conversion (my stock brakes aren't good, I'm already looking at mrblaine's site thinking of getting the 15" Vanco brakes) and probably $300ish for new gearing.
We already have Blaine's report. Maybe @Garza can share his experience with the S35.
Converting properly functioning rear drum brakes to disk won't help braking, though the BIg Brake kit from Black Magic definitely will. Properly functioning drum brakes in the rear brake just as well as disk brakes do.
Don't install rear disks just to hold an axle shaft in after it breaks, that'd be the wrong and a bad reason to install disks.Thanks, that'll save me some money. Would it be worth it just in case I break an axle? I guess I could look at a C-clip eliminator, but I'm not sure that's really warranted or not.
X2 to the recommendations for a good quality Super 35 kit, they hold up entirely satisfactorily to 35" tires and the kit's locker on even very difficult trails. The Super 35 kit's 1541H 30 spline axle shafts are actually stronger than a stock Dana 44's carbon steel 30 spline axle shafts are.
A very good source for the Revolution Gear Super 35 kit would be Ricky at www.4lowparts.com
No.Do you think the 5:1 Tcase would be an issue?
We ran the Super 35 in that rig on 35's with a doubler and an auto trans. He was at 7.39-1 final in low low.I have no experience with ECGS, but I've seen so much negativity about the Dana 35, even with a super kit and I do worry slightly about having a bit more torque than factory and then possibly adding a 5:1 ratio on top of that with larger than OEM tires. The one area I'm not too concerned with is the pinion shearing. There's still a pretty good amount of heft with the 3.54/3.55 pinions from what I can tell vs what guys normally use.
However I tend to believe with most of this stuff if I can't idle through it, then find another way or use the winch, but there's other factors where I don't want to dig holes in fields that are at times used for agriculture. And I get stuck mainly because of mud, especially around tilled fields and we have some stuff that's kind of steep for ordinary vehicles.
My helper bought Garza's rig. Ricky started running it, he ran it a bunch, but since I didn't actually watch it or run with him while he had it, I didn't include his trails of which there were quite a few.We already have Blaine's report. Maybe @Garza can share his experience with the S35.
We are talking about his red one, not the black one.Oh man, what did @Garza replace that thing with?