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Your point about the dana35 axle is well taken, but with today's Jeeps, you get what you pay for. If you want a good axle in the rear of your Wrangler, Unlimited, or Rubicon, these rigs are now available with a Dana44 . . . it's been that way since 1997.


All toyota's use d44 equivalent axles!! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/nana.gif" alt="" />

Montero's can be quite caipable vehicles!! And HEY, I DONT OWN ONE! granted their not like heavensent or anything, but they go OK.

Old Landrovers can do some incredible stuff. A mechanic at the gas station i work at had an old SWB. Bone stock, it would go places that lifted, locked toyotas AND JEEPS would not. The new ones suck, and reqire no mention, however.

All said and done i think i would vote for the rubi as the most caipable 4x4 out of the box, but i would never buy one.

you say people choose jeeps in part because of low cost and big aftermarket. Ok, but around here toyotas outnumber jeeps 5-1, because nobody has any money. Toyotas are dirt cheap, have a big aftermarket support, and do take a serious pounding.

When is really comes down to it, you can make pretty much make anything quite caipable. If i SAS'ed an awd corrolla, i bet it would go ok! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

To each his own.

-matt

-'88 toy x-cab, SAS, chevys, gears, lockers, free tires, dented body mod.
-'87 4runner, bone stock DD

"It's OK to do stupid things, as long as you are not stupid about it."