BEVAN
Adventurer
yup...I ran 35's for years on my 27 spline 8.25-it died from water and diff fluid mix...Thats why I have a 29 spline in there-I went to 33's for the extra piece of mind with lockers, price difference and on road manners.
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yup...I ran 35's for years on my 27 spline 8.25-it died from water and diff fluid mix...Thats why I have a 29 spline in there-I went to 33's for the extra piece of mind with lockers, price difference and on road manners.
What Jeep guy said. Remember, you have a unibody. No need to sling a bunch of weight under there. The 8.8 is a perfect fit with the HP 30 IMOP. I think the 8.25 29 spline under many of those Cherokees aren't bad either. I ran a Chromoed, Warn Hubed 30, lok-rite locked, 4:56 geared, with an 8.25 29 splined rear with no-slip, 4:56 geared on.... oh my goodness, say it isn't so.... 35" SS Trxus's MT's, on a 15x10" rim. I wheeled the heck out tof the Jeep, and daily drove it... Never, ever a problem in five years of driving!
With an auto, and some driving sense (read, "oh, I can make it", pedal to the floor style drivers get some 60's, reinforce the unibody, build an interior cage etc., etc...) your 8.8, or better yet, sell that sucker and get yourself a bolt in 29 spline 8.25, will do just fine up to a 35's.
I did rock crawl mine, but I'm not a pedal to the metal style driver. I also cleaned and maintained the XJ on a regular basis. I've seen non c-clipped turdy fives hold up to 38's with a good driver, on some rediculous terrain.
People spend too much time and money worrying about the "what if" titans of the keyboard (web-wheelers). If your worried about getting back out of the woods, then your not prepared. You should always carry spare shafts (the 8.25 has the same length shafts, so you need only carry one), and know how to work on your Jeep. Changing axle shafts is easy work for most Jeepers. AND, I'll bet that spare shaft will sit back there taking up space and collecting dust.
Quit worrying about that rear axle, go get a bolt in 8.25, throw your 31's on there, and go wheeling. Truely the best money spent, is on; Lockers, especially manual ones like the ARB for the front, a winch, tools, and some spare shafts and u-joints. A pic of my old girl... miss her!
P.S. I hate to see some of the replies on here that talk about 14 bolts, and deuce axles, even joking like that is so much like the JU boards of web-wheelin USA.This board is much better than that!
Nice reply... Great info.
Its easy to want the next best thing. But for me, what works, works.
juicexj24
Observer
Having been a XJ owner for the last 14 years with a non C clip 35 with ARB and in the last 5 years a bolt in Dana 44 with ARB on 33" with both and wheeled the heck out of it and drove it daily until I got my WJ (Still wheel the heck out of the XJ). You can't go on reading about the guy that snapped a shaft on his 29 spline and went with Dana 60's. If your running king of the hammers that might be fine but for what your doing it is great to run that rear/front axle combo. JU and NAXJA has thousands of guys that drive with the heavy foot that break stuff all the time, I have wheeled with a few of them. it's about tire placement in the rocks and lockers and gears. I've gotten more away from that over the years but a well built rig doesn't need Dana 60's and 14 bolts to have fun and not break parts. Just my 2. cents. I only thing I have ever broke on an axle is the the pinion yoke straps (switched to a u-bolt one on both axles) and ripped off a rear lower shock mount (cut them off and welded up the JKS mounts as level with the axle tube as possible). Diff skids work in the rocks and LCA skids from JKS or Currie work great too for the front axle. Juice