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Jeep Wrangler TJ Regearing Questions

Hey all im fairly new to jeepin and i have 31" tires and the rubicon express 2" bugdet boost and its excellent. However, i plan to add a 1 or 2 inch body lift soon and add 33x10.5 inch tires on my 15x7 american racing rims. However, i have the stock dana 35 rear with the

3.07 gears which i cannot stand. I plan to regear to 4.10's or 4.56's after i install the tires and i was wondering if i needed to know anything important about regearing. Ive read that if you change from 3.07 gears to 4.10's or 4.56's that you need to change the transfer case??? Or do i simply just purchase the gears and nothing else? Is it a bad idea to change gears in the dana 35?
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Derek Proctor
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L.W.(ßill)

So Bill, what if you don't plan on doing some heavy off road driving? Is it still unexceptable to upgrade a Dana 35? I am in the exact same situation. Bought my 97 TJ before I understood the Dana 44 option was better. I'm stuck with 3.07 gears and am considering regearing at some point too. If you don't plan to do any heavy off roading/rock crawling, only a little playing in the mud, is the Dana 35 really that weak?

Brad

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Brad Fuqua

With an open diff, 31" tires and light use, a D35 should hold up fine.

I managed to break some side gear teeth on my D35 with 33" tires and way overzealous use of the gas pedal trying to get unstuck.

I geared mine cheap with used 4.10s from a 4-cyl. This allowed me to stay mobile while I built up a D44 with air locker in my basement at my leisure.

Steve

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