Time to re-gear or not?
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Time to re-gear or not?
To start off I have searched and found the chart that post gear raitos and I looked at my door jam to see I have code G254 4.56 gears.
Now for the story I blew my front differential, BAD i checked all my fluids before driving 3 hours home from school like i always do my front differential was low so I topped it off then headed home, once home it was snowy so i left my hubs locked in just not in 4WD, then the other day I put it in four cause there was so much snoe in my drive way and the truck started making a grinding noise and hopping, so i threw it on a lift went to check my front diff. level and it was completly gone, my front pinion seal was shot and all fluid draind out in about 1 week. and there were gear teeth coming out when i pulled drain plug and put magnet up their.
So do i replace front with 4.56 or do I go ahead and swap rear out right away with 4.88 which i believe is code G144 please correct if i am wrong. I will be running 265/75R16 soon with 3.0 auto but can not afford to go with 5.29 so I am thinking 4.88
Now for the story I blew my front differential, BAD i checked all my fluids before driving 3 hours home from school like i always do my front differential was low so I topped it off then headed home, once home it was snowy so i left my hubs locked in just not in 4WD, then the other day I put it in four cause there was so much snoe in my drive way and the truck started making a grinding noise and hopping, so i threw it on a lift went to check my front diff. level and it was completly gone, my front pinion seal was shot and all fluid draind out in about 1 week. and there were gear teeth coming out when i pulled drain plug and put magnet up their.
So do i replace front with 4.56 or do I go ahead and swap rear out right away with 4.88 which i believe is code G144 please correct if i am wrong. I will be running 265/75R16 soon with 3.0 auto but can not afford to go with 5.29 so I am thinking 4.88
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I was going to replace it with factory thirds my self, there is a recycling yard around here that sells there parts with 1 year warranties I can get a 4.88 for the front for $140 with warranty A little high i have seen cheaper but i like the warrenty. the problem is they do not have any for th erear so i have to pull one out of a different yard and I wanted tomake sure that G144 was the code i was looking for.
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I am probably going to go wiht the 4.88 I just need to know for sure that I am looking for G144 door jam code? because I am not 100% that that is correct
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toyota has factory third members with 4.88 I just have to make sure I get the right third of the correct truck it has to be v6 auto with 31in tire option
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this might not be exactly the right thread for this but i did some searching with little luck
also, this might be a stupid question but hey i'm new to the 4x4 world.
i was reading another thread, which i can't seem to find right now, and a guy was talking about calculating his gas mileage and he had I think 33's on his truck. he was saying that he had to recalculate the mileage because he had larger than stock tires with stock gears
I guess my question is that i am looking at purchasing a 92 4x4 that is currently running 31 or 32's. Will the odometer mileage be lower than the actual mileage or am i just reading into this too much. Thanks in advance for any help or a link to where this might be covered.
also, this might be a stupid question but hey i'm new to the 4x4 world.
i was reading another thread, which i can't seem to find right now, and a guy was talking about calculating his gas mileage and he had I think 33's on his truck. he was saying that he had to recalculate the mileage because he had larger than stock tires with stock gears
I guess my question is that i am looking at purchasing a 92 4x4 that is currently running 31 or 32's. Will the odometer mileage be lower than the actual mileage or am i just reading into this too much. Thanks in advance for any help or a link to where this might be covered.
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Yes your speedometer will be off
No I do not plan on going to 5.29 I can not afford it I want to run 4.88 because i might as well while i am replacing the front end anyways pluse i was running my 32's with 4.56 and i did not really mind it all that much unless pulling a trailer. I mostly just want to verify that G144 is the code i am looking for but i found a good site.
http://www.brian894x4.com/Gearratiosanddiffs.html
No I do not plan on going to 5.29 I can not afford it I want to run 4.88 because i might as well while i am replacing the front end anyways pluse i was running my 32's with 4.56 and i did not really mind it all that much unless pulling a trailer. I mostly just want to verify that G144 is the code i am looking for but i found a good site.
http://www.brian894x4.com/Gearratiosanddiffs.html
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