Hey guys,

So I bought a samurai a few months ago with a homemade SPOA made with blocks and just altogether not good. It's on 35's with supposidly 5:29 r&p (probably 5:12 or 5:38) and a rear locker. All on stock axles ( also not that great). Fortunately the body and frame is mint so I have a good base to start.

I've come across a great donor samurai with brand new 31x 11.5 x 15 bfg km2's as well as a lot of great parts.

For now I'm going to remove the blocks on the lift to bring it down to a standard SPOA size and run the 31's and someone is buying the 35's. Here are my questions:

1. I need to know how my rig well run with this gearing and 31's. I won't be doing much highway going. Mostly a hunting rig.
2. Should I be touching the t/c ratio from stock with this setup?
3. My plan for next spring is put the TrailTough complete yj kit for $1359. Does this cover all my suspension needs(high steer, proper SPOA).
4. Well I need to go to a 32-33 tire to fill the wheel wells, I hate too small of a tire with lifts.

Thanks guys. I have done my research and read 100's of pages. Any other advice is appreciated.

not really related, but i saw that samurai with 31s for sale the other day, would of scooped that up for sure if i had the space. basically a free sammi with the purchase of tires and rims lol

When I bought my first Samurai, even with stock gearing, tires and no lift, I always thought it was geared to high.  I completed a SPOA lift and installed 31x10.50x15, I also installed this gear set from:  http://www.trail-gear.com/samurai-transfer-case-gears
It helped a lot and was very easy to install.  I didn't purchase the optional output flanges and don't think I'll ever need them.  I had the chance of driving a friends Samurai that he installed lower R&P's and still had stock tcase gears, with almost the same lift and tires and he really lacked low range.  I felt some difference from the R&P swap but I suggest change the tcase gears and that is all!  Thanks, hope this helps!

looking at doing one of those transfer case gear sets but im not sure 600 bucks is in my old ladys budget
is there a cheaper place out there?  and are they difficult to install  very limited on tools right now

if you need someone to haul away that bikini style hard top i can do that for you.