d30 oil slinger

Jeep1XJ · Jul 10, 2004

How important is the oil slinger in a d30 front end? A buddy of mine said he would install my 4.10 gears and tru trac. Since he is a mechanic at a local dealer ship (not Jeep) I figured why not. Now that I have my xj back, he gave me the old r/p. The pinion still has the slinger on it, and he said he didnt put it back in the axle.
Will I mess up the bearings/trutrac/r&p if the slinger isnt installed?
Thx.

Lincoln · Jul 10, 2004

I would definately get it back in there. He would have had to make up the difference with shims so it should be a pretty easy job. The slinger slows the oil flow back from the pinion bearings too so I would keep it there.

Wayne Sihler · Jul 10, 2004

Like Lincon said,get it back in.Included in the shim kit with the gears we installed was a smaller verson(diam) of the slinger but we reused the larger one.
Wayne

ChuckD · Jul 10, 2004

Jeep1XJ said:
How important is the oil slinger in a d30 front end? A buddy of mine said he would install my 4.10 gears and tru trac. Since he is a mechanic at a local dealer ship (not Jeep) I figured why not. Now that I have my xj back, he gave me the old r/p. The pinion still has the slinger on it, and he said he didnt put it back in the axle.
Will I mess up the bearings/trutrac/r&p if the slinger isnt installed?
Thx.

I didn't put it in mine. PM RawBrown, he''ll tell how many D30's he has done with out the front oil slinger.

Mike L · Jul 10, 2004

It's not really needed. You just have to use the same thickness of the slinger in shims, like he did.

-Mike

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