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Update to my stuff:

Diode dynamics foglights pending pickup.

ADS Setup, arms, 3-leaf pack pending (though not confirmed yet)

 

I had Mule quote me to regear my 2nd gen. $3600?! Is that covid tax or what? I remember researching a year or two ago it $2600 was expensive!

 

Had mine done a year ago at Auburn Car Repair and Offroad and it was just under $3200 before tax, so about the same as your current quote (assuming yours included tax). What's their wait time like now? I always hear it's crazy trying to get in there.

 

Another shop around Portland quoted me low 4k.....$3600 isn't too bad with Mule's reputation. I'll be near CA in a month, so trying to take advantage of the $1950 out the door labor/part deal at PremierWestGear group buy.

Edit - just got off the phone with PremierWestGear, 1950 OTD booked, with gear break-in so I don't have to stop a billion times on the way back to OR.

 

Is that with a locker?

 

no...with a locker is a bit more. That 1500 (1750 w/locker) for labor is rough

 

How does gear break in work? They drive your rig 500 miles and change the fluid before giving it back?

 

Yikes

 

I think it's more like drive 50 miles, let the truck cool, rinse/repeat for 500 miles then change fluid. I think what he is quoting is the REM polishing which basically does the break in for you.

 

No, i was talking about the post I quoted. They said the shop was doing the break-in, so he wouldn't have to. I didn't see how that was possible?

 

No they polish the gears. The $4k quote shop also offered this as well.

"REM Polishing is $300/set. It strengthens the gears and eliminates the 500 mile break-in cycle"

 

Yep, read that wrong and then edited...

 

Mule and Auburn Car Repair and Offroad both have labor discounts through Avants membership. Depending on how much labor is, it could literally pay for a membership and then some. The price I listed above for my regear did not include the 200-ish I got off.

https://www.avants.com/partners#off-road

*note, i believe they are both 10% off labor, not the 15% listed for ACR.

 

My savings from mule through avants when I regeared paid for the membership itself. I also got xpel clear bra put on my wife’s car which saved another 80 dollars or so too.

 

Awesome. Thanks. I always feel like i'm "advertising" when I mention Avants. But they've been a lot of fun, and I've thoroughly enjoyed volunteering at their events. Seem a good group.

 

If you can pull your own diffs and take them in to the shop in buckets you can save a ton on labor. I pulled my front diff and dropped it off at Nitro Gear in Cashmere and it was about 2000 parts and labor if i remember right, with 1000 of that being a harrop locker.

 

Nitro Gear straight up just won't reply to emails or return phone calls.

 

Uh... $1000 for front and rear gears installed? That don't sound right.

 

Just the front diff, read the post again my friend.

That’s a bummer to hear, it was about 3 years ago I did my regear and Nitro was great about everything, I was bullshitting mountain bike trails with the owner Carl when I picked up my diff and he gave me a bunch of swag too

 

Reading is truly fundamental... that makes a lot more sense. For a moment I was kicking myself for not going that route.