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Old 02-21-2009 | 01:21 PM
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Chrysler 8.25 (in my '97 country)



Dana 35 (in my son's '96 sport)







and, yes he does need to maintenence it more often.......
Old 02-21-2009 | 01:51 PM
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so out of all diff that were named which would be said to be the best
Old 02-21-2009 | 02:01 PM
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As far as Cherokee OEM

it would be the Dana 44 but they are hard to find stock.
Old 02-21-2009 | 02:16 PM
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so whats the big fuss about the ford 8.8
Old 01-24-2010 | 08:10 PM
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Thank you for this link!

I was trying to figure out what transfer case my 98 Cherokee Sport has and it looks like a 231.

Now I just need to figure out what is causing the binding / jerking on slow speed (while turning, seems to be worse on a heavy incline while turning at the same time).
Old 01-24-2010 | 09:44 PM
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There should be a sticky with that pic of all the different rear ends!
Old 01-24-2010 | 10:03 PM
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There is.....
Old 01-24-2010 | 10:56 PM
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wow YELLOWSTONEPART way to pimp your product while not posting a single thing relevant to this thread.

I know on the D35 there is a label on the diff housing not the diff cover ..this is not stamped in or a tag it is raised and on one of the gusset pieces (if you can call them that) when looking at it.
Old 01-24-2010 | 11:27 PM
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im 99% sure that they all came stock with rear sway bars and as far as an lsd that may have just been an avail option that year
Old 01-24-2010 | 11:35 PM
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Didn't the up county susp package have no rear sway bar?
Old 01-25-2010 | 01:28 AM
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I have the up country package and HAD a rear sway bar. I think it would come with it regardless, remember these vehicles were after the roll over fiasco of the early CJ's where they took a CJ5 and cut it hard to the left then right at 40mph to simulate a vehicle going around a "normal" corner.
if it were bought used the PO could have taken it off. it isn't like the thing is permanently attached.

the LSD in the 35 is called trac loc. it is a clutch pack that is just about worthless. if you have the trac loc (lsd) it requires friction modifier, just adding gear oil for LSD diffs is not enough. the carrier for the spider gears is straight sided for the LSD an open diff steps up and gets wider on the ring gear side of the carrier.

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Old 01-25-2010 | 02:12 AM
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There seems to be a lot of confusion over the afor pictured differential. Let me clear the air:

You my friend have a dana 8 million under the back of your jeep. It is very rare and will be the central subject for the next indiana jones movie. And also if you were to own the limited slip version of said differential it will require 2 ounces of unicorn blood in addition to the standard 70 90 in order to properly function. Hope this helps...
Old 01-25-2010 | 02:14 AM
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upcountry package. no sway bar.
Old 01-25-2010 | 03:23 AM
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Originally Posted by littleredXJ
There seems to be a lot of confusion over the afor pictured differential. Let me clear the air:

You my friend have a dana 8 million under the back of your jeep. It is very rare and will be the central subject for the next indiana jones movie. And also if you were to own the limited slip version of said differential it will require 2 ounces of unicorn blood in addition to the standard 70 90 in order to properly function. Hope this helps...
good luck to the OP finding unicorn blood. It was so hard for me to find I swapped out my lsd carrier for an open one.
Old 01-25-2010 | 03:31 AM
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Elf tears work just as well...

BTW. Its a dana 35. Since you are changing fluid anyway, look for the lsd clutch packs when you have the cover off. If you haven't figured it out amoungst all the abstract posting



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