74Weld Portal Axles

[Joey1313]

Portals certainly have their place but for some reason, mainly the internet, everyone seems to think they need them.

Actually, I had a customer call me the other day to ask my opinion on portals. He indicated he only really uses his Jeep JK for hunting on fire roads but seemed to think he really needed them for deep snow. Of course I explained he certainly didn't need them that that if anything, 20k would be much better spent on bigger axles if he really wanted an upgrade since he wanted to run 40's or 42's. He then indicated he was told by 74weld that he could run 42's on the stock axles with the portals because of the gearing....... Crazy thing is, this guy then sat on the phone trying to convince me why this was ok and why he should do it. Of course it got to a point where I just had to say, if that's what you want to do then go for it.

The maintenance on them isn't too bad on the RZR. Not sure if the 74weld require the gear oil change as often as his though. There was another company at Sema that has portals for around $12k if I remember the video correctly?

I think they are cool but maybe not for a street jeep. If you trailer it everywhere might be good?

I just have many other things to spend that amount of money on first. Could get some Unimog portals for cheap and fab up a way to mount to jeep. Then be able to air up/down while driving. Again, more than my capability and wallet.