Locker install!
Always looks and sounds so easy, 2, maybe 3 hours, in the driveway, simple bolt in.....
Mine was a nightmare but hopefully worth it! I started out with two eaton lockers, seal kits, and hope the diff was all right. My hope was short lived as the master tech (my buddy thank God), lossened the rear bearing caps and the carrier dropped out. My thought was "great", his comment , NOT good. We should have needed a Diff spreader-someone ground the case. The shimms-not even close. The PO had a mechanic "wanna be" use a grinder , chiesel and every other imaginable improper tool to make some repairs. The diff had obviously had water in it-ring, pinion shot, bearings shot, seals gone...but, after all was replaced (CORRECTLY WITH mahinist precision, indicators etc) the Dana 44 (one piece axle version) was good to go. On to the front...
Ring and pinion-like new, and, apparently NOT tampered with-nice! Hubs-diferent story...seals shot, bearings shot, spindles stripped (and someone tried to make threads with silicone), So after installing the E-Locker, replacing all the seals, new axle universals, ball joints, (HD Rugged Ridge tie rod and drag link on order), the front diff is back together. Attached are the pics of the switch mounts, good grief-can they make the switches any bigger!!!! You need 2" minimum behind the switches. I didn't want to mount mine under the dash...
Mine was a nightmare but hopefully worth it! I started out with two eaton lockers, seal kits, and hope the diff was all right. My hope was short lived as the master tech (my buddy thank God), lossened the rear bearing caps and the carrier dropped out. My thought was "great", his comment , NOT good. We should have needed a Diff spreader-someone ground the case. The shimms-not even close. The PO had a mechanic "wanna be" use a grinder , chiesel and every other imaginable improper tool to make some repairs. The diff had obviously had water in it-ring, pinion shot, bearings shot, seals gone...but, after all was replaced (CORRECTLY WITH mahinist precision, indicators etc) the Dana 44 (one piece axle version) was good to go. On to the front...
Ring and pinion-like new, and, apparently NOT tampered with-nice! Hubs-diferent story...seals shot, bearings shot, spindles stripped (and someone tried to make threads with silicone), So after installing the E-Locker, replacing all the seals, new axle universals, ball joints, (HD Rugged Ridge tie rod and drag link on order), the front diff is back together. Attached are the pics of the switch mounts, good grief-can they make the switches any bigger!!!! You need 2" minimum behind the switches. I didn't want to mount mine under the dash...
