in2fords said:
my buddy has a 2.5 yj on 38.5 Iroks, breaks chromo's almost every month!! Im willing to bet its cause his housing is flexing.
i'm willing to bet it's because he's a idiot who's running 38.5 iroks on a dana 35.
in2fords said:
yeah, 35!!! he's given up on the jeep and now runs a CUCV chevy, 14b/D60 and some 40"s!!
gawd tell me he didn't give up on the jeep based on the fact that it had a dana 35, and he couldn't get his thumb out his butt long enough to realize that you CAN'T expect a dana 35 to hold up to any abuse, whatsoever!
sorry, I'm not trying to come off like a jerk...too much. but even Jeep has stated that the dana 35 is a street use axle, and jeep dealerships tell you that they'll spill their guts out with factory tires. easy.
anyways. I blew a dana 35's spider gears into the pinion, which wrecked the ring gear, and seized the bearings. that was when i had a 2.8 in the jeep
since then, I've blown the ring/pinion on another one, snapped one shaft on another, and two more sets of spiders..this is with the camaro 3800 v6 that i put in the jeep.
now, i've kept the axle because all along I've had the dana 44 for it with 4.10 gears, and have been looking for a matching front. i blew the axle the first time a couple years ago, then the rest of them are within the last year since i dropped in the motor. new axles are being installed for the simple fact that the dana 35 is a poor choice by anyone.