I ordered mine with the 4:10, 44 in it after looking at Sahara’s with 44’s on the lot.
I just didn’t care for the Sahara pkg.
Should I re-gear? And if so to what?
- Thread starter Andrew Redbeard
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I ordered mine with the 4:10, 44 in it after looking at Sahara’s with 44’s on the lot.
I just didn’t care for the Sahara pkg.
Revolution Gear & Axle makes a fairly inexpensive set of direct replacement 1541H axle shafts that are stronger, they also make great ring & pinion gear sets. Make sure you have the shop provide all the parts so their warranty will include everything. If you were to provide the parts to the shop, their warranty would only cover their labor. If there was a problem they'd blame the parts you provided and you'd be faced with getting them replaced and you'd have to pay for their labor again... since they certainly wouldn't accept any blame for how they installed them.
Revolution Gear & Axle makes a fairly inexpensive set of direct replacement 1541H axle shafts that are stronger, they also make great ring & pinion gear sets. Make sure you have the shop provide all the parts so their warranty will include everything. If you were to provide the parts to the shop, their warranty would only cover their labor. If there was a problem they'd blame the parts you provided and you'd be faced with getting them replaced and you'd have to pay for their labor again... since they certainly wouldn't accept any blame for how they installed them.
So would that be axles and regear for front and rear then?
That could be, I don't know 100% for sure that 4.10 wasn't available then. But when I had a half-dozen Jeep dealers as clients in the early 2000's to build lifted TJs for them to sell when I was with 4WHeel Parts' parent company Transamerica, 4.10 wasn't an option for the Dana 44 on the Jeep factory order screen. I would sit with the dealer's GM to order Jeeps properly configured with Dana 44 axles so I could have my shops lift them with bigger tires. If 4.10 had been an option for the Dana 44, and it was not when I was in that business, we would have jumped on it. All we could get on the Dana 44 then was 3.73 which was barely acceptable for the 33's we installed with the suspension lifts. Your saying you received your Dana 44 with 4.10 is very (!) surprising to say the least.
You need to know your gear ratio for sure because your 35 carrier break might allow for a gear redux but your 30 might not. I don’t remember the CB for a 30 but I do remember that’s why I ordered my 44 with 4:10 and the 30 came 4:11 I believe. I intended to regear it immediately and all I wanted to have to do was buy gears. You might have to buy a 30 carrier. Insert Rabbit Hole reference here.
Since you're not personally installing the gears, you personally don't need to worry about what the carrier break is. The installing shop will worry about that and provide the proper carrier if it's needed. The carrier break just means there are two models of gear carrier needed depending on the axle ratio. When regearing, sometimes a different gear carrier is needed for the new gear ratio. Carriers are not expensive.
I wouldn’t lie to you Jerry, that’s how I ordered it.That could be, I don't know 100% for sure that 4.10 wasn't available then. But when I had a half-dozen Jeep dealers as clients in the early 2000's to build lifted TJs for them to sell when I was with 4WHeel Parts' parent company Transamerica, 4.10 wasn't an option for the Dana 44 on the Jeep factory order screen. I would sit with the dealer's GM to order Jeeps properly configured with Dana 44 axles so I could have my shops lift them with bigger tires. If 4.10 had been an option for the Dana 44, and it was not when I was in that business, we would have jumped on it. All we could get on the Dana 44 then was 3.73 which was barely acceptable for the 33's we installed with the suspension lifts. Your saying you received your Dana 44 with 4.10 is very (!) surprising to say the least.
Lots of dealers in Sacramento had lot model Sahara’s with optional 44’s and mine was an option with 4:11 gears. I looked at several that had them for that reason and when a fleet salesman in Roseville told me I could get the Sport with a 44/4:11 I ordered it on the spot.
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Just for my curiosity, could you post your build sheet link? I’ve never heard of that either. I wonder if there is a special package that gave you the 4.10. I thought I’d lucked out with my 3.73 Dana 44, but a 4.10 would have been even better. Learn something new everyday I guess.
Andrew Redbeard said:
Use the brand recommended and supplied by the gear shop. Most good gear shops won't install customer supplied parts and the ones that will typically won't warranty the labor leaving you on your own to deal with the manufacturer/online seller for any product defect claims.
You usually can't go wrong with gearsets and axles from any of the major brand names or well known gear/axle suppliers.
Revolution is a popular answer and they do cut a nice gear set. Honestly, I have set up many different brands and while set up may be easier/nicer on some than others, they are all good.
So my actual tire size converted to inches is 34.3. If that matters at all for regearing to 4.56
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