Situation: Dana 35 rear. POS not worth buying a locker for.
Wheeling terrain: Sand, 2 to 3 feet of river water and quicksand. Dont laugh its what we do. Sometimes its fun othertimes people are nuts. Yes it gets expensive.
Options:
1. Leave open and leave parked in driveway and ride with friends.
2. Lincoln lock it.
3. Fill carrier with lead
Number 3 is why I am asking the question. I have really hesitated on welding the spiders as the heat from the weld weakens the spiders and your going to explode the rear end in a matter of time.
One guy spoke up in the group about an idea he had heard of that was pulling the carrier, smelting lead and filling the entire carrier.
A few of the guys laughed at him, one is a notoriusly pompous ass, (although he has a very nice Jeep). After conversing aobut this idea, it sounds very pluasible. No high heat to make the metal brittle, has a jsut a little bit of give but with it being filled solid nothing would move. If it ever got to the point where it had too much slack all you would have to do is pull the carrier remelt the lead and then reinstall.
I really have been thinking of doing this and I have done some searching but have not seen anything about doing this.
I dont think there would be any enviromental issues as it would be sealed up and its not like its going to create any shavings to get out somehow.
I am just not seeing any negatives with this.
Cody
Wheeling terrain: Sand, 2 to 3 feet of river water and quicksand. Dont laugh its what we do. Sometimes its fun othertimes people are nuts. Yes it gets expensive.
Options:
1. Leave open and leave parked in driveway and ride with friends.
2. Lincoln lock it.
3. Fill carrier with lead
Number 3 is why I am asking the question. I have really hesitated on welding the spiders as the heat from the weld weakens the spiders and your going to explode the rear end in a matter of time.
One guy spoke up in the group about an idea he had heard of that was pulling the carrier, smelting lead and filling the entire carrier.
A few of the guys laughed at him, one is a notoriusly pompous ass, (although he has a very nice Jeep). After conversing aobut this idea, it sounds very pluasible. No high heat to make the metal brittle, has a jsut a little bit of give but with it being filled solid nothing would move. If it ever got to the point where it had too much slack all you would have to do is pull the carrier remelt the lead and then reinstall.
I really have been thinking of doing this and I have done some searching but have not seen anything about doing this.
I dont think there would be any enviromental issues as it would be sealed up and its not like its going to create any shavings to get out somehow.
I am just not seeing any negatives with this.
Cody