New gears anyone ?

[swathdiver]

Approx 4k $$ later ... Definitely more then what I wanted to spend but now that I crossed the 500 mile mark and changed all the fluids... tahoe feels amazing !!! Holy crap

An open carrier?

 

[NYBRD]

An open carrier?

Touchy subject I wasn't told they were installing that carrier, for an extra 4 or 500 bucks I would of opted for the LSD carrier.

 

[swathdiver]

Touchy subject I wasn't told they were installing that carrier, for an extra 4 or 500 bucks I would of opted for the LSD carrier.

So what are you going to do? You don't want to be like this guy do you?

If you kept your original carrier, just swap the ring gear and carrier bearings over to it. At least you'll have something.

 

[West 1]

I just rebuild both my differentials, 3.42 ratio. If I had know I was rebuilding both I would have changed to 3.73 gears with the 6.2 and a 6L80. With 3.42 in 6th gear on the highway at anything less than 75 it downshifts going up even mild hills. 3.73 would have been a better fit for this rig.

As far as 4,000 for your conversion, having done the work that is not an excessive price. As far as doing all that work and having an open rear diff? That is wrong, they should have made that very clear.

 

[06 Yukon XL]

Local shop offers a nice 3.73 package bundle , would only be doing this for some faster acceleration but not sure how bad it'll hurt me mpg wise when I'm on the highway going about 70. Im already on e85 so I go thru gas pretty quick as it is ha. Thoughts?

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Out of curiosity how much will this cost to have done?

 

[NYBRD]

Out of curiosity how much will this cost to have done?

For front and rear i was charged about 1300 in labor another 1k for new rear and front carrier, another 1k or so for front and rear new gears. Almost 4k all said and done a bit much , but holy hell does this thing get out the hole like a bat outta hell now

 

[89Suburban]

Dang brah open carrier? Yikes. Better be ginger with it, no peg legger burnouts. Chew those spider gears right up. Def should have got a posi. I went with the true trac, it kicks ass.

 

[NYBRD]

Dang brah open carrier? Yikes. Better be ginger with it, no peg legger burnouts. Chew those spider gears right up. Def should have got a posi. I went with the true trac, it kicks ass.

Im beating the crap outta this tahoe every day , if it blows the diff the shop is gonna have a diff go right thru there shop floor

 

[swathdiver]

Im beating the crap outta this tahoe every day , if it blows the diff the shop is gonna have a diff go right thru there shop floor

Take it to the track and get some runs on it to see how much it improved performance.