There's a pair of xr 4.56 geared axles for $4k in the marketplace and North Carolina is pretty close to Virginia, that's the route I'd go in your shoes (easy to spend someone else's money, but they are a huge upgrade over even factory Rubicon 44's)
$1600 minimum if you do the work yourself and retain the crap 3.45 gears though? It's great that the option exists but seems like an expensive way to a partial upgrade?
It's going to take me a few yrs to build the jeep I'm just looking for the basics to do some of the medium difficult trails without risking anything. I already have a rubicon take off lift and have 33s now I just want the rear D44 so I can basically have a willys jeep which is what I wanted but didn't want to spend 10k more.
I couldn’t afford the Rubicon at the time I got the Sahara to get out of expensive car payments. I did blow more more money not getting the gears done when I got the locker installed because I ended up installing 4.56’s in June ‘21. 3.45’s, turbo or not, are not optimal. I didn’t see 8th gear enough.
Id just wait until I got a D44 if I were you. Meanwhile, beat the shit out of your D35 lol.
Will do
It took me three Jeeps and lots of wasted $$$ trying to be frugal, only to learn that going with a Rubicon is the smart move.
My sport is direct proof that is not the case.
That's not huge. Thickness doesn't increase strength much. Tube strength goes up as the 4th power, and it is called Moment of Inertia, or Inertial Stiffness. JL vs JK:
