Anyone ever installed a PowerTrax Lock Right?

[CJ]

I have a friend who bought one for his CJ and asked me to put it in for him. It's a 3.73 Dana 44 . I bet I'm gonna have to pull the carrier but it looks like a very easy install.

Just wondering if anyone has had any first hand experience with it. Should be a breeze compared to putting the locker in my CJ!

 

[mylittlecj5]

I did one for my Jeep. Spent all one memorial day weekend installing/uninstalling the danged thing.
A few things I learned:
More than likely you will have to pull the carrier and remove the ring gear. if its the thick style (like mine) it has to come out.
If its a used unit, throw it out now and save the aggravation. at least install new springs (cheap to buy, I hear).
Dont chip the holes where the springs are. One or two arent bad, but try not to.
I also learned that I'm a LOT happier with a welded rear diff, than that clanking POS I tore my axle apart 4 times in 2 days to try and get working right.

 

[CJ]

Thanks for the reply. It's new unit. It can't pop or moan anymore then a Detroit Locker, does it? My locker with pop so loud it sounds like the diff is going to explode!

Were your problems because it was used?

 

[mylittlecj5]

I really can't say. I didn't know what I was looking at when I bought it, but I figured a fellow Jeeper wouldn't steer me wrong.
By the time I got done with it (2 days and maybe 5 miles) the teeth were so worn there was no way it could hold.
It popped so bad I almost called the wife to bring me the trailer to bring it 3 miles home from the first test drive. I thought it broke the axle a dozen times.
I've never had a Detroit so I can't compare the two. sorry.
I'm telling you, the welded diff works WAY better than that POS.

 

[CJ]

This is on you bogger - right? I couldn't weld my friends every day driver...

 

[mylittlecj5]

I drive mine all the time on the street.I'd drive it every day if I could get this ignition working right.
Other than some tire scrub (no its not good on the tires) I really have no problems with it. I actually think its fun listening to the howl of the tires in a sharp corner (does that make me weird??)

 

[CJ]

Yes that makes you weird

What's wrong with your ignition?


Posted from my CrackBerry.

 

[coldwater]

Good units and simple to install. Pull the axlels and drop the cover. I never had to pull a carrier.

 

[mylittlecj5]

Yes that makes you weird

What's wrong with your ignition?


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I'm not really sure. I blew up a MSD OffRoad box last year, so I installed a Summit Racing CDI box on it. Ever since it runs like . I haven't had a lot of time to really get in there and figure out why, between work and the cold weather we had before I left.

Coldwater, if you have a thin ring gear, you dont have to pull the carrier. The thick gearset doesn't allow the crosspin to drop out, so it has to come off the carrier for the install.

 

[coldwater]

I "think" the Dana 44 carrier for 3.73's is the same one used for higher gears, and may clear.. I have a Detroit in the rear of mine, and a TT up front, but they were installed when the axles were sitting on the bench. The units I plugged in were for a few friends, I believe they were running 3.55 sets.

 

[mylittlecj5]

Yep, I have 3:73 gears. And they are the thick ones.

 

[coldwater]

Then I am wrong.