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Apr 14, 2006 | 09:38 PM

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D44 Installed

Just installed a D44 in place of my D36. Took all day but works perfect.

Apr 14, 2006 | 09:44 PM

biggrizzly

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I have always wanted to do this job, but thought it was quite a tough job to do single handed. I usually have no second person to help out when it comes to working on my car, so the heavy jobs usually get passed by. Could this be accomplished single handed or did you have an assistant? Any unusual or special tools needed?

Apr 14, 2006 | 09:54 PM

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I did all by myself in one day. I did have to get clever with my only hydrolic jack a few times, but really it wasn't that bad.

To me the hardest part was getting the dang support beam bolts back in.

I will admit, I'm sure with an extra hand it would have been a lot easier. But I am kinda like you, very rarely do I have a second hand around.

As far as tools. Really all I have is your basic metric and SAE tools.

Apr 14, 2006 | 10:16 PM

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What gear ratio did you change from and to?

Mike

Apr 14, 2006 | 10:31 PM

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What gear ratio did you change from and to?

Mike

Unfortunately, thats the down side to this swap. My D36 had 3.54's and the D44 has 3.07's. So far tho the few short trips I took in it today after I got done I suprisingly could'nt tell a whole lot of difference. I still have to order the speedo gears to correct my speedo too.

I suspect tho there will be certain instances that I can tell it's not the 3.54's in there anymore.

Apr 16, 2006 | 12:16 PM

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3.07s are a pretty good all around compromise gear. I am sure you'll enjoy the MPG increase on the highway.

Mike

Apr 16, 2006 | 01:31 PM

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3.07s are a pretty good all around compromise gear. I am sure you'll enjoy the MPG increase on the highway.

Mike

I stayed with 3.07s like my 36 came with. I had no desire to change ratios when I swapped in a 44.
Biggriz, if you've got a floor jack, it's no big deal to do single-handedly. I did it in 3-4 hours. I already had new seals and poly bushings in the diff. ***'y, etc. It was ready to bolt in.

Apr 16, 2006 | 11:03 PM

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3.07s are a pretty good all around compromise gear. I am sure you'll enjoy the MPG increase on the highway.

Mike

I had heard that before so I figured I would give it a shot. Now that I've put a few more miles on them I have to agree. The difference in "seat of the pants" performance is very minimal, I am very happy, and hey like you said I might gain a few MPG to boot.

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I did it in 3-4 hours.

It took me about 8 hrs, you must have had ants in your pants to do it in 3 -4.

Next I need to install the speedo gears. Do any of you guys know if the sensor has to be changed out as well? Or can I get by with just the 2 little plastice gears?