So long as you don't drive it like an idiot or install a locker into your Dana 35, it is usually fine with 33" tires. If you also want to install a locker, you need to upgrade its axle shafts with a Super 35 kit.Currently own a Dana 35 and Dana 30 combo , I’ve been hearing a lot about Dana 35s being a bad axle . Mounted on a 98 tj sport , want to run 33s in the future here soon but have a stock axle . Any ideas/suggestions?
I’m running stock gear ratio right now ,4.0 inline 6 , and manual 5 spd trans not sure which one . Was thinking of re gearing and putting new axle shafts as well once I go 33s but if I go with a super 35 around the same price I can go with a used Dana 44 or 8.8 , my question is should I go with the money or just swap and have a 44/30 combo ?
With the skyhigh cost of a typical used TJ Dana 44 (if you can even find one) combined with the cost of regearing/rebuilding it it, you'd very likely come out $$$ ahead with Revolution Gear's Super 35 kit which includes a locker, bearings, and 30 spline 1541H axle shafts that are slightly stronger than the OE carbon steel 30 spline axle shafts that come in a TJ Dana 44.I’m running stock gear ratio right now ,4.0 inline 6 , and manual 5 spd trans not sure which one . Was thinking of re gearing and putting new axle shafts as well once I go 33s but if I go with a super 35 around the same price I can go with a used Dana 44 or 8.8 , my question is should I go with the money or just swap and have a 44/30 combo ?
Jerry, is it just the axles shafts that will need swapping to the Super 35 kit to hopefully salvage a lunchbox lockered Dana 35 from an inevitable explosive future? In other words, besides driving like a mellow fellow on pavement and not hammering the skinny pedal while airborne, would I just be in for swapping the axles shafts themselves if I am planning on keeping my existing gearing and other rearend equipment (at least in the near short term)?So long as you don't drive it like an idiot or install a locker into your Dana 35, it is usually fine with 33" tires. If you also want to install a locker, you need to upgrade its axle shafts with a Super 35 kit.
10-4, that's what I thought, that I would be in for other parts as well, it wasn't just an axle swap. Thank you sir!Installing a Super 35 converts the shafts from 27 to the larger diameter 30 spline size so the existing 27 spline lunchbox locker and 27 spline carrier would have to come out. Revolution Gear's Super 35 kit replaces all that. Not to mention a lunchbox locker is a bad idea in any rear axle, they're weak and poorly behaved when in a rear axle.