Where do I lower the difficulty settings and restart?

[AstroZombie]

up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A and Start

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[PuddleJumper]

up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A and Start

Could’ve mentioned that before I had to just commit and pray

 

[AstroZombie]

i did that with my '04 tacoma drive shaft. Turns out the double cardan joints are not rebuildable. I had to take it to a driveshaft shop and have it cut off and have them add one that is rebuildable (Spicer 1310 i think) and balance. Fun times!!

 

[Minty JL]

Start by wearing the appropriate boots instead of open-toed slip-ons?

I installed 70% of my lift wearing flip flops David Friburger style. Life's short, get shit done

 

[AstroZombie]

SAFETY SQUINTS!!

 

[Bonanza]

Looks like a fun evening. Just kidding, I regeared my '01 4x4 Ram about two years after I bought it. Did it the same way you're doing, on jackstands in my garage at home. I worked in management at the time, I could have afforded to have it done, but just didn't want to pay to have something done that I could do myself. A tech that I knew was willing to do it for $100 per axle, but I didn't want to spend that money. Rear axle was easy enough, front axle went well until time to set the pinion bearing preload. I succeeded in crushing the sleeve, got the preload correct and finished the job. Saved the $200 for regearing both axles. The copay for the hernia surgery was a good bit more than $200, though. Good luck, be careful and don't hurt yourself.

Please tell me your technique for the crush sleeve. I used more torque than I've ever used in anything automotive related for that thing. While on a lift, I think I used the control arm to leverage a chain to get it to go.

Edit- I did my regear in sandals.

 

[Bonanza]

I highly recommend precrush the sleeves first if you have a press. If not, a 800+ lbs impact would do lol

Please time travel back to 2022 and tell me that.

 

[Duece McCracken]

Could’ve mentioned that before I had to just commit and pray

Im too lazy to look, is your JT equipped with a skill pedal or an autotradgic?

 

[Charles 236]

Please tell me your technique for the crush sleeve. I used more torque than I've ever used in anything automotive related for that thing. While on a lift, I think I used the control arm to leverage a chain to get it to go.

Edit- I did my regear in sandals.

Back then it was a long breaker bar with a longer cheater bar, combined with some serious grunt. Nowadays I use a big breaker bar with a 3/1 torque multiplier. If you want to "pre-crush" the crush sleeve using a press, that works too, as long as you leave a bit of "crush " for actually setting the pinion preload. Ulitmately, the crush sleeve is what keeps the pinion nut from loosening. If it is overcrushed and backed off to set the pinion bearing preload, it will not remain at the specified torque to turn (preload). I mention this because I have seen the results of someone else reusing a crush sleeve that could not be crushed enough to provide the correct preload for the pinion bearings and torque for the pinion nut.

 

[PuddleJumper]

Im too lazy to look, is your JT equipped with a skill pedal or an autotradgic?

auto tragic sadly and i ordered it that way other wise i couldn't tow my camper. 4000lb max towing capacity is deal breaker on a truck for me. regardless of how cool manual is. The wrangler i'm shopping for will be manual no matter what.

 

[Duece McCracken]

auto tragic sadly and i ordered it that way other wise i couldn't tow my camper. 4000lb max towing capacity is deal breaker on a truck for me. regardless of how cool manual is. The wrangler i'm shopping for will be manual no matter what.

I figured it was auto since you went 4.88.

If I ever put the money aside, I'd be going 5.13 or 5.38 with the 6 speed.

 

[PuddleJumper]

I figured it was auto since you went 4.88.

If I ever put the money aside, I'd be going 5.13 or 5.38 with the 6 speed.

100% agree. I'd go a lot taller with a manual

 

[Greg_L]

100% agree. I'd go a lot taller with a manual

I'm not familiar with Jeeps manual transmissions. How hard would it be to swap gear ratios internally compared to doing two diffs that affect every single gear?

I know this is not an apples-to-apples comparison, but in street-race transmissions we'd often swap ratios for 1st gear or even all the way up to third and preserve a numerically low gear ratio for freeway cruising.

 

[PuddleJumper]

I'm not familiar with Jeeps manual transmissions. How hard would it be to swap gear ratios internally compared to doing two diffs that affect every single gear?

I know this is not an apples-to-apples comparison, but in street-race transmissions we'd often swap ratios for 1st gear or even all the way up to third and preserve a numerically low gear ratio for freeway cruising.

I don’t think there is an aftermarket gear set for the Jeep MT. As far as I know axles are the most common denominator and therefore the easiest point of adjustment

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