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my jeep goes under the knife
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Fri Sep 23, 2005 9:51 amby kcvikingrun
I dropped my 05' off yesterday. Some of you guys remember my jeep. Well I ripped the breather tube off the rear 44 and sucked mud in..DOH** so the gears started whining, well I dropped it off to get 4:88's front and rear with detroit rear and ratchet locker in the front.. Hey its a big leap for me I cant wait to see the difference!!!
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Fri Sep 23, 2005 10:25 amby rblank
Hope it get's well soon.
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Fri Sep 23, 2005 10:51 amby Scott Hatch
The locker & gears will make a HUGE difference
locked
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Fri Sep 23, 2005 11:53 amby kcvikingrun
I am like a kid before christmas..lol I cant wait to see the difference I went from 3:73's to 4:88's with a 6 speed... I should get better gas mileage again on road and offroad I hopefully gained a ton of crawl ratio.. Maybe now I can try a few new trails in WW...lol
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Fri Sep 23, 2005 12:19 pmby cmerrick
Who are you having do the work?
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Fri Sep 23, 2005 4:05 pmby KJP98TJ
what size tars? prolly going to lose 1rst gear on the street. not that that's a bad thing
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Sat Sep 24, 2005 7:28 pmby Paul
cmerrick wrote:Who are you having do the work?
He was trying to get Bill B do the gears last I knew.
locked and geared
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Tue Sep 27, 2005 4:45 pmby kcvikingrun
Dave's customs ended up doing it. Came out sweet although the rear detroit is very aggressive! chirpin and bangs when in and out.. I dont care though cause it is mint offroad! I have 33"s on right now and it tops out around 60 or so with a 6 speed but man is the crawl ratio cool, I can get out and check the air pressure while its rolling in low..lol Dave did a great job I'd recommend him to anyone!
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Wed Sep 28, 2005 8:40 amby Paul
My older Detroit has been good on turns, you have to either coast through or power through. Hitting the gas when you're driving straight and feeling the sideways jilt is always pretty cool too.
yup
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Wed Sep 28, 2005 12:33 pmby kcvikingrun
yeah the shimmy is cool I like freaking paople out with the locker snap you get sometimes..lol They think you broke something.
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Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:48 amby Zaedock
KJP98TJ wrote:what size tars? prolly going to lose 1rst gear on the street. not that that's a bad thing
Nah. The 6 speeds only have a 4.x:1 1st gear. I still use 1st gear and it's 7.05:1 in my SM420.