Ok Im up in the air right now on a rear axle swap. I just picked up a isuzu dana 44 out of a 95 rodeo disk brakes and 4.10 gears ( was promised they were 4.56). I also have a ford 8.8 out of a 95 exploder disk brakes 3.73 gears. Im currently doing a SYE and stretching my wheel base with waggy springs on my 1990 jeep wrangler it still sits on the stock dana 35 rear with 3.07 gears and 33" tires. I recently did a 4.0 head swap and plan to convert to fuel injection soon.
I have been doing a lot of looking around and was really set on doing the ford 8.8 but what sold me on the dana 44 at the time was I was told it had 4.56's in it. Now that I know it has 4.10 gears Im leaning towards the ford 8.8 again. I really wanted to go with 4.56 cause I tow my pop up camper with my jeep alot and I live in Montana where every road is a Mountain pass. which axle is better? I know a lot are going to say the 8.8 cause there are more of them out there but what about the isuzu axle.
what axle would you guys use? Either way I have to regear front and rear to get 4.56, but how bad would the 4.10 be in the dana 44 and 33" tires? and I know the isuzu axle is 6 lug I was planning on using wheel adapters to make it the same 5 x 4.5 as the dana 30 front. any advice would be appreciated.
I have been doing a lot of looking around and was really set on doing the ford 8.8 but what sold me on the dana 44 at the time was I was told it had 4.56's in it. Now that I know it has 4.10 gears Im leaning towards the ford 8.8 again. I really wanted to go with 4.56 cause I tow my pop up camper with my jeep alot and I live in Montana where every road is a Mountain pass. which axle is better? I know a lot are going to say the 8.8 cause there are more of them out there but what about the isuzu axle.
what axle would you guys use? Either way I have to regear front and rear to get 4.56, but how bad would the 4.10 be in the dana 44 and 33" tires? and I know the isuzu axle is 6 lug I was planning on using wheel adapters to make it the same 5 x 4.5 as the dana 30 front. any advice would be appreciated.