Recent content by BathiasRei

Sounds good, thank you again for the insight. Your Dana 35 rebuild video really helped me out! fingers crossed and prayers sent.

Since you are pretty close to me and if you end up needing a headgasket and/or a new head, I have a spare from a 94 XJ I'd be willing to pass along for cheap as well

Thank you for the insight mr mac, hopefully I can just send it since I didn't get alot of compound in this kit... I'm also wondering do I need to break in these bearings as if I had a new ring and pinion or if I can just drive the jeep like normal?

Yep just the bearings on the new 3.73 dana 35, I'll try a new pattern diluted with oil tmrw and try to get a better grip on the carrier

I've been running a Denso for a bit over year now after my Jeep ran really hot on the 101 back up from Santa Barbara... No complaints, but dido Mac on compression and leak down.

Hope its going well and apologizes for starting another thread from suggestion in the previous thread (https://wranglertjforum.com/threads/dana-35-gear-rebuild-advice.88641/), I have successfully done a minor overhaul of my dana 35 with new bearings and races, reusing the old shims. Currently I...

Thank you Mr Mac…. I ended up pulling the trigger on a rebuild kit for my current gears. Hopefully I won’t need to get any new gears, but I suppose we’ll see what things look like after I install the new bearings

I was strongly considering picking up new axles but it seems that there’s nothing too promising near my location at a reasonable price… I also am not sure if 4.10 or higher is too much gear since I will likely not have tires bigger than 30’s on my rig but I could definitely be mistaken

When checking by hand there doesn’t seem to be any noticeable play in the pinion in/out or side to side… Hopefully I get lucky on this. no worries about putting the jeep out of commission, my motorcycle has been my daily while I’ve been gettin the jeep solid Thank you for the wisdom sir, - Rei

Hope the new year is finding everyone well and any input to my predicament is appreciated. This past week I swapped in a set of 100$ axles (Dana 30 and 35) with 3.73 gears to replace my old 3.07 ones. I was foolish and probably didn't do a thorough enough check over the inside of the axles...

Glad the thread is insightful! I think swapping the 4.0L is pretty straight forward and do-able as a first swap if you're doing the work. I think in terms of parts, I got away with not replacing a lot but it mostly comes down to how much you're willing to spend for peace of mind. I reused most...

I think it’s mostly an issue with my gearing since at these speeds I’m usually below or at 1k rpms in second and feel like I’m lugging along the engine if I were to try and floor it to speed up? In the times I’ve downshifted into first it feels like I can get up to 20-25mph and be in the power...

Maybe it’s more niche to the city I live in with the yellow lights… the Main Street here is a 25mph, sometimes going down to 15mph, and has a lot of back to back lights. During my morning drive to class it’s not uncommon to be crawling forward from light to light at 7-10mph in traffic once I hit...

Maybe my syncros are a bit shot then, I notice that if I don’t double clutch there’s almost a gated feeling for a few seconds before it slides in when moving unless I give it a lot of rpm… currently have synthetic 10w30 in it

I’m on stock wheels and 3.07… was mainly asking since about first since there’s times that I’m lugging the jeep or riding the clutch around a turn in second making me want to downshift into first