[Tigers] Rear End Gears

[Dave Munroe]

Hey guys:

Another path to pursue to make my Tiger more user-friendly:

My car came to me fitted with 3:07 gears in the rear end. It turns about 
3,000 rpm at 60 mph.

Thinking a set of original 2:88's would bring the engine revs down to make 
the car more relaxed to drive at highway speeds,
including less noise, vibration, and even perhaps improved fuel economy, I 
picked up a set off eBay. Unfortunately,  my local
 Jeep guy who has a LOT of experience with Dana 44's is reluctant to put 
them in my car.

He says often eBay rear-end gears will not take a pattern and it is a huge 
expensive hassle to remove a good set of gears, replace them with
used ones of questionable lineage, find out they are "bad", and have to do 
it all over again just to get back to ground zero. He quoted me 
approximately
8 hours labour for one "cycle". (old gears out: new gears in).

The ones I have purchased look excellent, very little wear, (only a shiny 
spot where the teeth were in contact, a "good" pattern) an came complete 
with
the spider gears and cage.

Does anyone have any experience or advice on this change back to original?

Thanks,

Dave