i want to run 35's

[mazdamama]

but i dont want to pay to gear my ranger axles becaus i am saving up for full widths. i am currently running 33's with the stock 3.73, and it does allright, i just have to give it a lot of gas and let the clutch out slower. however i cut my fenders pretty high and i want to go with bigger tires now, but i dont want to be breaking my axles all the time. so my idea is to spend two hundred and get some junkyard axles with 4:10's, and be back in the same situation i was in with 33's. my question is, will my axles be much more likely to break with 35's and 4.10's or will it likely just burn up my clutch and cause my truck to stall before it broke anything?

 

[sniper141]

The 4.10 will hold up, but you should gear to 4.56 if you want to keep it safe in my opinion. Good luck hommie!

 

[Fx4wannabe01]

what engine?


4.88 for 35's IMO.

 

[c_note]

what engine?


4.88 for 35's IMO.

ya... +1.

and thats with a 4.0

 

[mazdamama]

yeah i have a 4.0 but wouldnt having 4.88's give my truck the power to start braking axle shafts? i know that with 4.10's it would be mostly a mall crawler, but thats ok because im done rock crawling till i get full widths, and in the mean time i dont really want to break anything.

if a truck is geared right doesnt it put more stress on the axles, and if a truck is undergeared doesnt it put more stress on the engine and trans?
this is what ive been wondering, but im not completely sure of, so if someone could let me know if im right on this that would be great.

what im trying to say is, im fine with my truck burnin the clutch a little or stalling out sometimes, rather than being powerful enough to break axle shafts.

 

[RangerSVT]

Check out the pics in this thread http://therangerstation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53648&page=4 ...stock 4.0L, Stock shafts, hubs, bearings, axles, u-joints wheelin 37's and 456 gears...I started wheelin 35's with stock (327) gears, then installed my 456s....I got a hell of a deal on the 37s, the only reason why I'm running them now
SVT

 

[crawlin91]

yeah it puts more strain on the engine and tranny. for good power with a 4.0 and 35" tires I would go with 4:88 or for more economy 4:56. You dont need full widths to rock crawl, the dana 35 and a 8.8 will wheel just fine if youre not romping the gas, especially if youre running open diffs. also they are a dime a dozen so replacement parts are easy to come by.

 

[4x4junkie]

if a truck is geared right doesnt it put more stress on the axles, and if a truck is undergeared doesnt it put more stress on the engine and trans?
this is what ive been wondering, but im not completely sure of, so if someone could let me know if im right on this that would be great.

what im trying to say is, im fine with my truck burnin the clutch a little or stalling out sometimes, rather than being powerful enough to break axle shafts.

Not necessarily.

The stress on the axle shafts is limited mostly by the traction your tires have. Under normal situations, the tires will slip long before enough torque could build up to bust a shaft.
Now if you're trying to blast up a hill at high speed, bouncing all over the place with the engine racing, then the dynamics of the situation change dramatically. The shock loading this creates can break things no matter what gears you're running.
Geared properly (4.88 or 5.13), chances are any breakage would remain confined within the axles (primarily the shafts). With too-tall gears (3.73 or 4.10), the stresses are greater on the transmission and transfercase... you could just as easily start breaking parts further upstream in this case (which would get much more expensive much faster).

 

[RangerSVT]

This was never asked yet, but what kind of wheelin do you do?? Is it mostly flat terrain, hilly, vertical hill climbs, etc. Your wheelin will determine what your demand is, if you wheel mostly flat or neat flat, you could do with 410s, if its near vertical, rock climbing, slow crawling, you'll be better off with a low (numerically higher, ie. 456-up) gear...
SVT

 

[Fx4wannabe01]

4.10s and 35's quite frankly...SUCK...even with that low end torquey 4.0L OHV he has. Around town and on the highway it suckes....geared too high to crawl...it just plain sucks. 4.56 or 4.88 with 35's thank you.

 

[mazdamama]

yeah im allright with sucky for a little bit, as far as im concerned my truck will never be a rockcrawler with ttb, but for now id at least like to have a little bit of fun with it on the cheap. maybe ill put some new shocks?mounts in with xj coils and try that out, but the main reason i want 35's right now, is mostly for looks, because i cut my fenders too high and now i need something bigger than 33s to fill in the space. right now i have 3.73 gears with 33s so i think 4.10 gears with 35s will be about the same.