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Swapping axles

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Old 07-25-2007 | 10:25 PM
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Originally Posted by red7
How difficult of a job is it to swap out axles? I know it's stronger but what specifically are all of the benefits of the D44 over the 30?
Also, since this comes with 4.10 already I assume that the cost to regear the rear would be half since the front is already done right?
Old 07-26-2007 | 12:27 PM
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Originally Posted by 2K1TJ
Ouch!!! Sorry to hear that.

Where you wheeling when it broke, or on the street?
Yep, I was burried in sand on the Platt River. Sucks things break at the wrong time. Took three hours to get her back to solid ground. I'm going to try the 5.13's one more time, but already ready to order the dana 44 for the front. I do like the power that the 5.13s have restored in the JK, especially when we were driving through the Rocky Mountains.
Old 07-26-2007 | 12:32 PM
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Originally Posted by onsafari
simply put.....5.13 gears and a Dana 30 are a bad mix. That is to much gear for that small of an axle.......you chipped a tooth due to the fact that there isn't enough gear contact with the pinion gear.

I'm becomming a believer of this more and more each day. There's a lot of folks on this forum that went to the 5.13s, and I might have been wrong listening to them, so it's going to be interesting to see how many hold up to four-wheeling. We weighted the differences between the 4.88 and the 5.13, and thought what the heck, let's try 'em.




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