>I was wondering about this myself. According to ashcroft, if you go with
>their high range transfer case, you can't fit the older lower range gears in
>it. If you use their underdrive transfer case, you cant use the overdrive.
>So how did we work around this?
The Ashfroft kit provides you with a new complete transfer case gear set
and you end up with IIA low ratio. The best way to get a lower overall
ratio is to use a gearbox with a granny first. Mine gives me a first
gear low range of 70.4:1 using stock series diffs. With the same set up
high range fourth is 4.12:1 final drive. Or 65 MPH at 2814 RPM with my
32 inch dia tyres. The NV4500 will not give you as low a first gear but
it does have that nice fifth gear overdrive. Only problem is that is is
a long gearbox and would make for a real short rear prop shaft in an 88.
You really should have a 109 if you use that gearbox.
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