Softcore Jeep build

[colman]

no the gears for you are high pinion, i have a set of standard 4.56 gears. i also have a detroit for the 3.xx gear ratios, 3.54 standard gears. housings, shafts etc
i'm going to go and get the gears for your hp44 friday as well

[mudtoy67]

Ahh

[uglyota]

hopefully i won't become a horder one day....

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[breckboarder55]

John pulled the pan on the expedition and found a TON of debris/metal shavings. Test drove it and just said it was a matter of when, not if. Going to go ahead and have the Expedition transmission rebuild. Not my money, not my decision.

Worked a good price on the motor+install.

Josh at Baertrax quoted roughly $1200 for an ARB+bearings+R/P+install with a full warranty for my D44. I could get the individual parts cheaper, but he seems to be pretty competitive when you account for install. Plus he has a great warranty.

[uglyota]

John Brown has a transmission guy that I will most likely try the next time I need work on one. Oliver is good but expensive, seems like their answer to everything is "needs to be rebuilt".

it's like the tranny shop mantra...I trust John though (cawks don't quote that, fawker), would probably go ahead and let him do it

[agjohn02]

it's like the tranny shop mantra...I trust John though (cawks don't quote that, fawker), would probably go ahead and let him do it

[breckboarder55]

So as much as I really want to have the D44 in and re-geared with the new engine, I have been telling Junior I would buy his HPD30 for months... I don't want to burn that bridge so I will probably pick that up at the end of the month and try and get the D44 re-geared in early October.

[Eckert]

used engine... don't know if it will work with your TJ? i assume its the same.

http://forum.tx4wd.org/viewtopic.php?t=9470

[85cj7]

So as much as I really want to have the D44 in and re-geared with the new engine, I have been telling Junior I would buy his HPD30 for months... I don't want to burn that bridge so I will probably pick that up at the end of the month and try and get the D44 re-geared in early October.

Hasn't it been at least 2 yrs now, you bought that d-44 from creighton back in 2008 wasn't it? You did get it out of the dexter backyard didn't you? It would be funny to find out that the 8 man golf cart is now rolling around on it

[agjohn02]

http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/pts/1951743324.html

[Shaggy]

that lift is nice too

[Shaggy]

ill give you 100 for it so it would only net you 200... do eeet

[BroncoJo]

http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/pts/1951743324.html

buy this, use my shop for the install and then leave the lift.

[Shaggy]

I called dibs

[breckboarder55]

Hasn't it been at least 2 yrs now, you bought that d-44 from creighton back in 2008 wasn't it? You did get it out of the dexter backyard didn't you? It would be funny to find out that the 8 man golf cart is now rolling around on it

I bought the 44 in roughly November of 2008. I picked it up from Dexter mid spring 2009.

No, I didn't even know about Juniors HP30 until early this year. I told him for sure I wanted to buy it in June.

I wasn't aware that thrown rods were so common on the 2.5L until I really started looking into it.