I am in Riverside, CA. What kind of a lift do you have? Have you had any probs with you new gears or has it all been going great?

 

I'm from Quincy, IL. Practically middle of U.S. Pop. ~40,000. Do you think it'd be about $100 less or so? I imagine Cali is more expensive than the Heartland of America.

 

I have a 6" Rough Country lift, and the gears have been nothing but great, no problems at all and they have no whining sound at all..

 

Do 4.56's tend to have whining?

 

Not necessarily, it's just that a lot of people get incompetent mechanics that get the wrong back lashwhich creates whining and sometimes "bucking".The shop that worked on my truck worked on my El Camino, and my Mustang GT, so I trusted them, and they did a great job.

 

That's cool. People need to find reliable mechanics, tell people about them, and pretty much stick to them. Tranny systems are very delicate, so I can see how a less-than-par mechanic would screw up a new gears.

 

He's talking about differential gears but the same goes for that as transmission. I will do about anything on my truck but I won't break axles open...no way jose. I go to a shop in vegas called adams drive shaft because I would rathe rpay a reputable shop to do my stuff than mess it up. My auburn posi was $380 and the install was $345. I also had gears installed though.

 

Well the gears actually go in the rear differential not the tranny. I'm not sure if that's what you were referring to.

 

I meant the whole power distribution system, not just the tranny (isn't this called the gearbox, gears + tranny?). I don't see a big deal with splittin the axles, it's getting into the tranny itself that is worthy of fear. Isn't positrack GM's patented version of locking dif's?

 

Yes it's the same thing as daimler chryslers limited slip though. Go ahead and change some gears then, just don't come to dodgeforum and say "ahh I was driving down the road and my rear end locked up and now won't move, why did this happen?" Because I will say i told you so. Everything has to be aligned perfectly or your rear end will grenade. I have friends who work in offroad shops and they see it all the time, people do the gear change thinking you just bolt them in and that's that then 100 miles later they are getting everything rebuilt back there and wondering why it went boom.