Oizarod115

hopefully this winter gets REAL nasty, REAL quick. I'm sick of this crap. it was hot all summer, now its hot in the winter too. ITS DECEMBER AND ALMOST CHRISTMAS! :mad: :mad: :hateputers:

yeah, what he said!

pete did a big write up about leaf springs... you can use explorer leafs as well.. just mix and match the broken ones with explorer ones i would imagine. ill see if i can find pete's thread on it and link it here in a minute. EDIT: http://comancheclub.com/forums/viewtopi ... af+springs that MIGHT be it... not sure..

alright... so you can drive the truck with just taking the one peice of shaft out? for me u-joints is a two-time job... cause like i said, i can't do them myself and i gotta drive the truck.. but we have extra D30 shafts so i can take my inner shaft out and leave the stub in, drive around til the u-joints are swapped, then pull the stub out and put the other stub+axle in. but you're saying it won't hurt anythign to leave all the stuff from the disconnect-the diff in while driving right?

so i undo all the vacuum goodies, and pull the vacuum cover off the axle, then do al the hub-stuf and pull the axle shaft, then slide the sleeve thingy out the same way as the axleshaft? or out the disconnect housing? then the inner axle stays? or does it pull out too? I'm just changin u-joints. so do i need to pull the innermost shaft in order to run just the stub-shaft? cuase i can't change ujoints myself. the shop we took the left side to spent the better part of an hour getting the b*@$£ out. (origional spicer joints 17yo)

You can't do it like that. The gears must be "set up" properly. If not they can burn up or break within miles or even less. Gear set-up is one of the very few things I will gladly pay to have a pro do (and it's $150-250 per axle). And I would personally NEVER consider using a Dana 35 for 33s, no matter what other people have thus far gotten away with. Especially when Explorer 8.8s are everywhere in the junkyards. hes right honestly... if its to get your MJ on the road for a few weeks or even months thats cool. id run the one with the correct gears. and not worry about it. but also, when you can get a JY 8.8 or even 44 with the right gears and save 150$ on gear setup spend 90$ (if that) for the JY axle. theres no reason to not upgrade.

:cheers: hahahaa

I'm with pete. if i was gonna have a fast car it'd either be a bigass musclecar... and we're talking actual metal musclecar from back in the day like the late 60s early 70s. with a gigantic v8. ooor a dakota or manche. i just can't see a fullsize truck performing as well in corners, and i love to as pete said "accelerate in all directiosn" not just forwards. NOT saying your lightning isnt fast and doesnt corner well.. just saying i would rahter have a mid-size.

especially considering she was driving an intrepid..the heep's probably alot better/safer(?) for the snow/ice

fun... doesnt it suck that you were almost there... stopped turned around... and turns out you could've done it while it was still halfway done... :roll: hate it when that happens.

you'll be fine with 33s... my brother ran 33's on a c-clip D35 for a full year and he wheels with alot of skinny. (thats WITH a lunchbox locker too.. not open) so as long as you don't lose traction, bounce, and catch traction real quick... all while spinning tires a whole lot... you should be fine. just gotta remember... thats no D44. you can't beat the living )$*(@#&^ out of it.

WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE FREAKIN 71 DEGREES DOWN HERE!?!?! I WANT SNOW!!!!!!!!

do you have the origional factory lights? those have a three position... play with them til they don't come on when the door opens.. i know i can turn mine off so they only come on when i want htem too.. but i leave them on with the doors usually.

haha, thats the one i prolly wouldve chosen too man. but i do have one question to jack this thread.. since the topic is over and its still about vacuum d/30s. is there anything special that has to be done in order to pull the disconnect shaft in a disco-30? or do you just yank the shaft exactly how you yank the shaft on the short side? if the question isnt clear let me know ill try to ask it better. -tahnks nick

the main difference is... if you didnt already know... with a c-clip axle the axleshaft is held in at the diff. so if you break the shaft on the trail... you can't drive it unles you have gear oil, and another c-clip style shaft. because the axle isnt held in anymore... with a non-clip axle if you break the axleshaft in the tube somewhere you can pull the broken $#!& out, then put the outer end with the stubs (depending on the location of the break) back into the axle, bolt it in and get off the trail and or home. thats the difference.

yeah. pete or someone let me in on that tid bit bout a week ago ;) welcome

yeah... 1995 YJ shafts are D30 disconnect with 297x or w/e it is that the big ones are u-joints

actually... if it had a factory D44 it might have lower gears... could have towing gears or something... i know XJ towpackage had 3.73s.

it looks like its just a D44 with dually rims? its pretty nice though... not feeling the paint around the front fenders but that can be changed.

i don't know if tirerack carries those particular tires... but they do have charts/ratings for alot of brands... might wanna take a look at that. tells expected mileage and hydroplane resistance, traction ratiings all of that good stuff. http://www.tirerack.com

when you've got swapped buckets its way to easy to get to the wheel with it.

the 2.8 is a fairly small engine it might have had a 4 somethign ratio pete knows cause ive seen him type them out before. I'm pretty sure.

AW4s are beastly. my brothers has 240k on it and it hasnt leaked a drop in 2 years. he also busted a line for it in the mud, and completely fubared some stuff, it overheated.. he changed the fluids, threw in a b&m cooler, changed the fluids (like 4 times) and it still shifts as smooth as glass. i woudltn be worried abuot the one with 175k on it at all... maybe jsut a fluid change

so pete, are you still coming down to the atlanta area in january? we're still up for wheelin at tellico if you are. (just gotta replace Tim's track-bar... pulled the threads out of his old RE one..it was to short :eek: )

what engine/tranny? i only know the 4.0 ratios so I'm no help with an 86.