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chimpboy wrote:So let's say I fit 35" tyres (hypothetically) and therefore want 4.3 or 4.6:1 diffs. Would the fact that I have LSDs make this a heap more complicated? Ie, would I be sacrificing the limited slip for the gruntier ratio?
3.9 stock 31s 4.1 -> 33 4.3 -> 35
Basically go up 1 ratio per 2inch of tire
LSD in GQ is good..
Yup - although at the moment my tyres are lucky to be 29.5". They are pissant little 215/80R16s, so I was figuring on 4.6 to get 35s feeling the same.
However, the car feels a little too heavily geared anyway, on-road at least, 4.3 might be the go.
But what I was getting at with the question was - if I swap the diff centres, do I still have LSD? Or do I have to get a new centre specifically from an LSD vehicle?
Or am I totally out of my tree and failing to understand the basics here? I am confident you'll tell me if I am
chimpboy wrote: But what I was getting at with the question was - if I swap the diff centres, do I still have LSD? Or do I have to get a new centre specifically from an LSD vehicle?
You dont change the LSD center, unless your chucking in a Locker, which you may as well, as you are already there, have the diffs apart, and the seals and shit arent cheap..
You still have LSD, you just get the gears, and change them.
The MQ rear crown and pinion will fitt PERFECTELY BOTH rear and front!!! And you have a BIIIIIG advantage: the front diff will be a REVERSE crown and pinion, which in the US is a must for any off-roader...
TIP: all you have to do will be to change the front diff satellites: take yours, fitt it to the rear MQ diff (H233 also), then put the ENTIRE diff AND housing diff on the front GQ axle....Then (I came back to Wandle and his tie-rod set-up...that's why I'll mount it, besides the clearence on the tie-rod...) you can mount the Wandle set-up, as the original GQ tie-rod can't pass above the MQ diff house (the pinion is not anymore a High-angle pinion), which means (for big lifts more the 3") that you have to cutt the gear-box cross member too in order to clear the front CV...
I think that this is the cheappest solution to run 4.625 or even bigger crown and pinion rate (I have now GENUINE 5.1...)...
I deserve a beer, isn't?!?
I already have a MQ rear LSD fitted to my GQ front end, could I have left MQ 4.6 gears on it and just changed the whole centre
Just to clarify this are you saying MQ rear gears fit GQ centre or MQ rear centre fits GQ at the xpense of losing the better GQ LSD
Pat,
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JK 4door Rubicon, currently 4 Sale :(
It's a Jeep thing, I don't understand........
Have you put the gears in yet?? and if so how much did it cost?? as i'm getting 35's hopefully next week be interested in the difference it makes. Tho I think the 4.2TDi should push it along ok with standard, don't want the low range to suffer.
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Rainbow Warrior wrote: I already have a MQ rear LSD fitted to my GQ front end, could I have left MQ 4.6 gears on it and just changed the whole centre Just to clarify this are you saying MQ rear gears fit GQ centre or MQ rear centre fits GQ at the xpense of losing the better GQ LSD
if you put the MQ centre in the front, you also have to change the steering setup, as the tie-rod is in the way of the low pinion. probably not worth the hassle.
The MQ rear is H233 so, the gears will fit the GQ H233. The gear cut is wrong for the hi-pinion front, though.
Buy an MQ, rape the rear gearset out of it, and wreck the rest of the vehicle to pay for a nissan front gearset??
