Sierra Transfer Case In Vitara

[Bajan Tim]

I have a 98 sierra with a gear driven transfer case with trailtough 4.9:1 gears. Someone has made me an offer and i'm contemplating selling it and buying a 2 door vitara/ grand vitara. If i sell i will be swapping back in the original chain driven case.

The trails i do are mostly mildly challenging muddy trails and i'm contemplating buying a vitara and doing some mild mods. I have grown to apreciate the benefits of gear reduction offroad and if i do buy a vit i will be wanting to do the gears quickly.

Could the sierra case be made to easily fit the vit or am i better off selling the case and buying the vitara reduction gears?

Thanks'
Tim

[Toecutta]

Totally different case, buy new gears

[Bajan Tim]

was thinking so

[nicbeer]

was going to say i may buy the gears but distance is not exactly close. lol

but a vit should do good for what u want to play in.

[Gwagensteve]

sell the case and buy reduction gears. Fitting a sierra case to a vitara is possible but is a lot of work and will involve also fitting a sierra gearbox, or making an adapter plate for the rear of the vitara gearbox, making mounts, custom driveshafts/jackshafts, shifter location etc, then dealing with the offset rear diff of the sierra.

Vitara crawler gears seem reliable and work well.

Steve.

[Bajan Tim]

Thanks for the input, was sure i saw a vit with a siera case in it online somewhere, didnt realise it would be that much work.

[cj]

It's been done a few times but you do need to deal with the issues Steve mentioned and due to the change in high range you'll want to be running 35's at least and you may still need to swap R&P's as well to keep the revs down.

[Bajan Tim]

was thinking the sierra gear reduction would help with running bigger tyres, then it ocurred to me that it would be the same as running 5.12 gears and a 4.9 transfercase gears on a sierra