4.88 Gear install
 

Check out this outrageous install cost for gears I got today

YIKES! $100 gear oil, $26 silicone, every single line item was high.

Yeah pretty screwed up , I got a better quote from someone else for 2800.00 which is much more reasonable. Cant imagine how many people who get taken by some of these shops.

Yep, got a set of 4:56 gears for mine a while back just haven't had time to install.
I got a couple quotes around $2200 to $2500 if I remember correctly.
Considered grabbing a set of axles from the salvage yard off a 07 (4:11's) for around the same price but was concerned about used axles that I didn't know the history of.

your first quote is steeeeeeeeeeeeeep,

Neal

Ouch, I can feel my butt hole puckering just looking at the estimate! Looks like your making the owners house payments for a few months,,, that crazy!

That estimate is ridiculous.Why blackout the crooked shop info? Expose to let every1know!https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.hum...2aced177f8.gif

You know you are right

Way too nice on the review. Btw, why 4.88's?


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I went

with 4.88 to get back some power for hills and such I lost when going to 37-inch tires, I tow a small offroad camper I built last year


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So gears are swapped out and driveshafts have new u joints total price was 2900.00 and what a difference, the lie o meter in the gauge cluster was saying I was getting around 13.5 or so on the back roads once I reached the interstate and reached 70 mph I turned on the cruise control and it never tried to downshift, it kept up on some slight grades too never since owning the H2 have I been able to keep the cruise on without it going crazy to keep up unless I was driving down a hill, MPG came down to 12.9-13.1 but overall a big difference compared to the 4.10 on 37 inch tires.

Next week is headers and exhaust work