MrShoeBoy
NAXJA Forum User
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- Cincinnati, OH
So my Ford 8.8 rear end is toast. About 8 months ago I was wheeling and the ring gear bolts backed out. I caught it before it really did any damage and replaced them with new bolts and some red locktite. I didnt think anything of it until last week when I took off from a stop light and heard a bang like an axle shaft breaking and lots of crunchy noises. All of the ring gear bolts had backed out or where sheared off the ring gear. The ARB is DESTROYED. The ring gear bolt holes are all egged out and the flange for the ring gear is broken and cracked in several places. Also the cross shaft retaining pin was broken and there seems to be more play than normal in the spider gears. I have not gotten it fully pulled appart to see the full extent of the damage but from just opening the cover it was pretty bad.
Anybody had something like this happen to their 8.8? The ARB had started to leak down over time about a month before the first time the bolts backed out then after that it kept leaking down and the compressor would always run twice as much as it used to. I only had one offroad trip after the new bolts went back in and the compresor was running like it had before. Could the ARB have gone bad with the leak being the first sign of failure then the bolts did it in? I will get pics up tonight.
AARON
Anybody had something like this happen to their 8.8? The ARB had started to leak down over time about a month before the first time the bolts backed out then after that it kept leaking down and the compressor would always run twice as much as it used to. I only had one offroad trip after the new bolts went back in and the compresor was running like it had before. Could the ARB have gone bad with the leak being the first sign of failure then the bolts did it in? I will get pics up tonight.
AARON