what size tires

[fredneck]

what is bout the biggest tire i can run on a dana 30
with out worry bout breaking stuff just put 488 supeirior gears
in it stiil has stock axles thanks

 

[4byRANGER]

theres alot more variables to to breaking axles and what "YOU" can use, what types of driving you do(rocks, mud, street, dry dirt) and what kind of positions you put urself in.. also on how heavy you are on the throttle.

i would say 35's to be safe, but there are a couple of guys here in trs using 37's or bigger. also the offset of the rims can play a big roll on pressure points of the wheel mount surfuses.. haha brain fart.. surfus, surfes, serfus damn i cant spell it

good luck bud

 

[fredneck]

all the terrain you said but not so much sreet

 

[Chance]

How hard do you mash the loud pedal?

I'd say 33's if you wanna just mash down always, 35's if you're smart with the throttle.

 

[BlackBII]

I'd say 33's if you wanna just mash down always, 35's if you're smart with the throttle.

I agree.

 

[fredneck]

can i put a set of good axle in to add streanth if so what kind

better yet what can i do to srenghten my dana 30 so i can wheel 35 LTB swampers

 

[Fx4wannabe01]

can i put a set of good axle in to add streanth if so what kind

better yet what can i do to srenghten my dana 30 so i can wheel 35 LTB swampers

beefing a 30 is like polishing a turd.

if you wanna wheel 35's with a 30, honestly, go to a different axle. I went through 3 30's on my 33'd Cherokee. Although, all stock axles.

 

[fredneck]

saw mythbusters polissh a turd
it can be done

 

[Chance]

If you don't ever plan on going bigger than 35's, then swap a dana 35 in and run chromo shafts and it should be decent...

 

[4x4junkie]

theres alot more variables to to breaking axles and what "YOU" can use, what types of driving you do(rocks, mud, street, dry dirt) and what kind of positions you put urself in.. also on how heavy you are on the throttle.

i would say 35's to be safe, but there are a couple of guys here in trs using 37's or bigger. also the offset of the rims can play a big roll on pressure points of the wheel mount surfuses.. haha brain fart.. surfus, surfes, serfus damn i cant spell it

good luck bud

Yeah, fredneck's talking about a D30 (from a Jeep), not the D35.

33"s max with a D30 under a heavy Ranger. The shafts aren't so much the weak link on that axle (at least if you have the 5-297X-jointed shafts), it's the ring & pinion gears. Nothing you can really do to strengthen those. The housing isn't well-known for it's strength either.


Oh, and the spelling is "surfaces"

 

[fredneck]

thanks but it what i got right now and it has to do
so any suggestion on any way to build it as strong as possible
and yes its a dana 30 out of a 93 grand cherokee

 

[beaujt]

put in chromo poly axles, and i've actually heard what usually goes bad on the guts is the spider gears, not the R&P... but also do hubs to if ya wanna get it as strong as possible. the only thing is, you can sup up the d30 all you want, but you can really only get it to be as strong as maybe a stock d44, maybe. Might has well get a d44 before ya start dumping a lot money into it. there was something else about those grand cherokee d30 thats different than the regular cherokee... don't remember what it was right now...

 

[dangeranger01]

I would say 33s are about it. You can go bigger if it is never wheeled but then it will eat unit bearings. I break d44 shafts with 37s, granted they arnt chromo yet.