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Re: Axles - Advice needed

"Jeff Strickland" <crwlr@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> You can do the Superior Gear Super35 with a locker for something like 700,
> and this is roughly equivelent to the D44 axles AND you get a locker.

A friend of mine with a '93 YJ & 35s did this two years ago to "save money".
All was fine until it toasted the pinion bearings. Lasted about 5k miles.

Re: Axles - Advice needed

Well I was the quickest kid in north county, San Diego.
God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
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Jeff Strickland wrote:
>
> No, completely exploded is the pic you posted.

Re: Axles - Advice needed

Well maybe a little explosion:
http://www.draglist.com/Movies/Clips/duchene1.mpg
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Jeff Strickland wrote:
>
> No, completely exploded is the pic you posted.

Re: Axles - Advice needed

funny you should mention this............
My son had a problem w/his D35 (89 YJ). He is just using it to go back &
forth to Chico State, so I thought I would just drive over to West Coast
Differential for a master bearing kit & hire a friend of a friend to show me
how to do the "contact pattern " thing. (I think I have looked @ 15 or 20
illustrations - but need to do a "hands on" before I can truly understand
it). Got home, jacked it up next day & pulled the cover ----2 teeth stuck to
the magnetic filler hole plug-------back to West Coast Differential on
Monday. Well, got to the point of doing the "contact pattern" thing & I
asked "so how do you do this?" - he said "I don't know, I never have done
that. I always go by feel.". We put it together, he felt it a couple of
times & said "we should add some shims to the pinion" I told him that I had
..003", .005" & .010". he said to give him a .005", put it in & it felt good
(to him). My neighbor has a tow truck service out of his home now, but used
to own a garage & this guy worked for him for several years and he says that
he did the rear end on his tow truck about 3 or 4 yrs ago & it is still
running.
So now I think I can handle removing & replacing the parts of an
axle..................but I am still rather ignorant about the "contact
pattern" thing. Some day I will find someone to "hand hold" me thru the
process & I will have reached another milestone in my life.

--
Carlo F. Serusa, Jr. RPh
carlo.jr at comcast DOTnet
'98 Sahara TJ - '89 YJ - '79 Scout II
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'92 Explorer '65 Mustang

"Doug" <doug.schuler@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> nope - mine doesn't look that bad!
>
>
> "L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@cox.net> wrote in message
> news:426C1E71.31B35118@cox.net...
> > Yup, Superior could fix this one right up:
> > http://----------.com/dana35c/briansmit.jpg
> > God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
> > mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
> >
> > Jeff Strickland wrote:
> >>
> >> You can do the Superior Gear Super35 with a locker for something like
> >> 700,
> >> and this is roughly equivelent to the D44 axles AND you get a locker.
>
>