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Gear reduction for Kick?

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Offline hcgalvin

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Re: Gear reduction for Kick?
« Reply #45 on: February 01, 2005, 12:35:34 AM »
Yep.

Lots of gear combinations.

Heather Galvin
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Sidekick's gone... Still have Bob's Knob.

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Offline phoenix827

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Re: Gear reduction for Kick?
« Reply #46 on: February 01, 2005, 10:41:17 AM »
ok, now how does this compare to a 4.1 or 6.1 tcase?
Aside from the extra gears you get, Which would be better for stock gearing, (axle) and say 33-34" tires on the street?
What about the trail?
Got a rough idea for cost for dual cases?
Am I asking enough questions? ;D

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Offline Natebert

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Re: Gear reduction for Kick?
« Reply #47 on: February 01, 2005, 01:26:45 PM »
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ok, now how does this compare to a 4.1 or 6.1 tcase?
Aside from the extra gears you get, Which would be better for stock gearing, (axle) and say 33-34" tires on the street?
What about the trail?
Got a rough idea for cost for dual cases?
Am I asking enough questions? ;D


We have a 4.24:1 in one of the cases, the sidekick case.
This is great for the slow, crawly stuff.

We have stock Sammy gears, ~2.2:1 in the Sammy case, for regular like 4wd low.  (like most of the rest of the planet)

But combine them together (4wd low + 4wd low) and put the tranny in 1st gear and it will climb nearly anything at idle.  (overall crawl ratio is ~180:1, when stock sidekick is ~34:1)

Overall I'd say that by just doing the dual t-cases in a sidekick (Sammy +Kick cases) you wouldn't need diff gears and would be easily able to handle 33s on the street without issue.  (the Sammy has a reduction in high)

OTT Kicker 3 = ~$600 US.  (Send them a Sidekick t-case to modify)
Sammy T-case = ~$150 US.  (Average price from a junkyard)

Added together it's cheaper then a set of 4.24:1 gears alone.

But you may have to add the costs for custom drive lines, custom cross members, custom body work, etc.  (Which you can do yourself) to accomodate the additional t-case, shifter and moved output shafts.


~Nate

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