Mr. Pink

I6 Cherokee, and they are 3.55, or if you find one that is a 4cyl 5spd it would be 4.10.

onew1ckedxj

The 2.8 v6 i believe found in the xjs from 84-86?

Mr. Pink

oh avoid those seriously. they are 3.07 or lower gears i believe.

onew1ckedxj

Ahh ok i had heard somewhere they came with 4.56 or 4.10s but if its 3.07s ill pass lol

onew1ckedxj

A quick small update since it just came in the mail lol some recovery for the jeep!

onew1ckedxj

Braved the cold and snowy weather today and finally pulled an 8.8!! Pulled it out of a 2000 Explorer, 3.73 LSD in great shape and for a total cost of $60 ditched the calipers and rotors as i plan to use the calipers and rotors from the zj for the swap, now i need to cut off the old brackets and clean it up and order the 8.8 swap kit from IRO

kyle96xj

Definitely check the ID plate on the diff, I think I've heard they had 4.56 gears.

jon-d

how can you tell from the tag what the gear ratio is? or, perhaps a better question is how do you decipher the numbers?

marklar134

meh just pop the cover off and count the teeth

marklar134

but im fairly sure that its a 3.73

kyle96xj

It should have the ratio stamped clearly on it, or at least the ones I've seen have. I'll grab a pic of my Dana 30 tag tomorrow. There's also a chance someone could have discarded the tag when changing the gear oil.

Mr. Pink

as far as the 8.8 goes, you can decode the tag on the door jamb. and if your looking for a LSD axle you want to check the sticker as well, the axle code your looking for is D4 on most of them.

onew1ckedxj

Heres a quick pic i took of the tag on the 8.8 (not the best pic) at the bottom left of the tag it says 3L73 and then next to that 8 8 . . so in this case this axle is a 3.73 limited slip



Also this website has a ton of info on the 8.8 and also how to decode axle tags and door codes -->> http://www.therangerstation.com/tech...le_codes.shtml

kyle96xj

Here's a pic of my Dana 30 tag, you can see it says 3 . 55 towards the bottom.

onew1ckedxj

Started cleaning up the 8.8 today since we finally have some nice weather! Decided to go the sawzall route for cutting off the brackets, went to the hardware store and bought 4 6" metal cutting blades and surprisingly i only used 1 to cut everything off . . was also going to pick up a new grinding blade for my angle grinder but unfortunately they didnt have any so hopefully tomorrow i can find one and finish cleaning it up!

Here's some pics



Porter Cable FTW



1 blade literally cut everything like butter even most of the welds!



Just needs a light grinding to clean up the welds and then ill hit with a flap disk and make it pretty



Looks like ill need to replace the ebrakes



Drained the fluid which came out very clean



Took a look at everything inside and its all in great shape with very minimal wear on ring, pinion and spider gears