Different gear ration in axles

[nikos]

I wanna gear the front axle to 4.88's but my rear has 4.56. Can I drive around provided I dont engage 4x4? How does that work?

[aw12345]

As long as you do not use 4 wheel drive you are ok.
You can also remove the front driveshaft and avoid blond moments

[nikos]

Is this 100% fact! Thanks.

[womb raider 940]

told you so.

[nikos]

Josh, I'm still not convinced, and until I am, your no winner of this battle yet. LOL!

[Schmo]

Well I'm sticking with my original stance . . . I'm a bit paranoid and would remove the front drive shaft, but if you did that, nothing is going to the TC from the front and it wouldn't matter what gears were in there as it's just spinning on it's own.

[Jerry Bransford]

There is NO need to remove the front driveshaft with axles geared differently so long as you don't engage 4x4. You could have 3.07 in the frot and 5.13 in the rear and it'd still be fine so long as you know enough not to pull the lever into 4x4.

[kcruisin]

As long as you're not getting good traction, there's nothing wrong with running different gears in front and rear, but you don't want to hook traction with different ratios.
I hear of farmers here that only lock 4wd in the mud prefer a higher ratio in the front for positive steering.
I doubt a D-35 would hold up long like that.

[aw12345]

As I said taking the driveshaft out is only to avoid blond moments otherwise there is no need for it

[nikos]

Thanks guys! Means I'm getting 4.88 in the front and then when I get some more coin I will re-gear the rear. Awesome!