Recent content by Ratbikerod

^^ This! I bought my JK for those very reasons. I took it over to Dallas Offroad today to discuss the swap. Price went up a bit ($2400 to $2600) as they believe I will need a new rear carrier due to the miles on it. However, they gave me a 10% discount as well which kept the cost down. I...

@pc1p, you are a wealth of information. Thank you so much. That above post is stellar! This quote is how I feel right now with 3:73 on 33's - "Imagine trying to spin 35"s and maintain highway speeds on a NAG1 running 3.73's in the axles. You'll be lugging the engine, forcing excessive...

To your point, I expect the 4:88's will wake my JK up significantly. I am just gathering the funds to get it done and hope to do so this month. I expect that most of my driving and off-roading will be improved with this change with a slight suffer on the highway at 70.

Yea, that was definitely one of the deciding factors when I bought my JK. I did not want all of that. My buddy bought a JL about the same time and we have both been doing typical upgrade stuff. His is 50% more difficult and costly than on my JK.

At $10k you have to consider whether it is better to upgrade to a JL to be honest in my mind. Don't get me wrong, I bought my JK used a few years back because I did not want a JL. However, I would have loved to have the option to find a JK with an 8 speed. I do agree that it can be done for...

Yea, I think my first step will be the gear swap as that will be helpful with either transmission. Then, if my trans started acting up I would look at a swap for an 8 speed.

I have really contemplated an 8 speed change. I just expect that it would be so god awful expensive. In my little 2 door short bed Ram it will completely light up the tires and scratch them hitting second. When I bought the Ram I wanted a Hemi, 2 door short bed in any color other than black...

From all my research, the automatics (which I have) came with 3:73’s and the manuals came with 4:11’s unless ordered differently.

Great info, thank you. Definitely will go with the 4:88's I think. Interestingly, I have a 2015 Ram 2 door short bed pickup with the same 3.6 motor but the 8 speed. Man does that 8 speed really wake the 3.6 up. I am hoping this gear change will as well.

Ok, yea thanks, we are on the same page. I did not look at 5th gear as OD. All good, thank you. So on your chart either 4:56 or 4:88's would work for either tire size in the blue performance band, but I slip into green on the 35's with 4:56. That would be in line with what I am being told, then.

Yea, I am mainly in Texas, so pretty much not a lot of big hill country. I do travel to New Mexico to vacation and it would come in more there. Sorry to be dumb, but OD to me is overdrive and the 5 speed has no OD I am aware of - school me if it does. The gear shop is pushing 4:88 and I am sure...

I have a 2015 Rubicon JKU that I am currently running 33" tires on and have 3:73 gears. I will, at some point, probably move up to 35" tires. This is my daily driver and I tend to drive longer distances to do any off-roading, which is generally pretty mild. Thus, I want to maintain some...

The 3.73’s worked ok this weekend and we did some climbing and a bit of mild rock crawling on the 33’s. It helps that the Rubicon has lockers and a really good 4 low.

I thought that too, till I had the build sheet pulled and mine has 3.73 gearing. So I would have to do a gear change regardless.

I am running 33” tires at the moment, but plan to go to 35’s in the future. So yea, I found out that it was both sturdy and very capable. So, I am thinking maybe just get some better diff covers to provide some added protection for the pumpkin’s as they are the most vulnerable and they are...