So I am torn between two different routes for my jeep. I will not be wheeling my jeep except to and from trails until I have a secondary vehicle to rely on as a daily driver. Having to rebuild my engine due to a bad engine overheat causing two piston rings and my head gasket to rupture has taught me how valuable a car is when its your daily driver.

That being said, I need to regear my rear axle... soon. I currently have a dana 35 as my rear and am running 33" tires. It has stock 4.11 gearing and needs 4.88 (4.56 if I6) gearing to be back to stock ratio. The two options I have are to just regear my dana 35 or find a dana 44/ford 8.8/9in and regear that to my liking.

Since money is a really big issue right now I am leaning more towards just regearing my dana 35 and being done with it for the time being. How bad or good of an idea is this? Keep in mind that I am only running 33" tires on (now stock) 0"s of lift, and will not be going offroad much, if at all.

Thoughts, concers, opinions..?