4.08 Question
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Final Drive swapping question
I searched the 4.08 thread, and couldn't come up with the answer i was looking for. I work with a guy who has a 2004 Frontier, MT King Cab, and asked him if he would be willing to sell his gears to me. The truck only has like 15k miles on it . I told him i would look to see if my stock gears would benefit him, and if they did he would be willing to swap me. So, will my gears be good to put in his truck? My guess was the longer gears would be good for highway driving?? Any help would be much appreciated
Last edited by A-Town-Z; 11-26-2011 at 10:20 PM.
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If you do all the work except for the gear setup , it will cost about $200 each for a driveline shop to set the gear lash.
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Honestly i think the taller gears will hurt the Fronti's gas milage because it will be too much for that little 4 cyl , yes the RPMs will be lower per gear but it will strugle getting up to speed causing more gas to burn .
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And swapping the gear sets may not be a 1 weekend event either.
I just got my 4.08 gears setup and i waited over 2 months to get the required pinion shim from courtesyparts.com. Local dealer couldn't get them any faster either.
So you run a descent possiblitity that you and/or he will be stuck for a descent amount of time.
I see your car is a base model as well, I would highly suggest picking up a used base model pumpkin (I got mine for $100 that had 49k miles on it) and building up a solid setup with the 4.08 gears, LSD (I went with a Quaife), new bearings, and the Nismo finned rear cover.
IMO no sense in going thru the motions of setting up a set of gears with an one wheel drive differential.
Last edited by ian99rt; 11-28-2011 at 08:33 AM.
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I agree, his truck will struggle very hard to get moving in 1st gear. Which is where you also lose the most gas mileage.
And swapping the gear sets may not be a 1 weekend event either.
I just got my 4.08 gears setup and i waited over 2 months to get the required pinion shim from courtesyparts.com. Local dealer couldn't get them any faster either.
So you run a descent possiblitity that you and/or he will be stuck for a descent amount of time.
I see your car is a base model as well, I would highly suggest picking up a used base model pumpkin (I got mine for $100 that had 49k miles on it) and building up a solid setup with the 4.08 gears, LSD (I went with a Quaife), new bearings, and the Nismo finned rear cover.
IMO no sense in going thru the motions of setting up a set of gears with an one wheel drive differential.
And swapping the gear sets may not be a 1 weekend event either.
I just got my 4.08 gears setup and i waited over 2 months to get the required pinion shim from courtesyparts.com. Local dealer couldn't get them any faster either.
So you run a descent possiblitity that you and/or he will be stuck for a descent amount of time.
I see your car is a base model as well, I would highly suggest picking up a used base model pumpkin (I got mine for $100 that had 49k miles on it) and building up a solid setup with the 4.08 gears, LSD (I went with a Quaife), new bearings, and the Nismo finned rear cover.
IMO no sense in going thru the motions of setting up a set of gears with an one wheel drive differential.
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