jeeppowermj
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- York, Pennsylvania
Today I was on my way to my a restaurant for mothers day and my jeep started clunking. I thought it might be a motor or tranny mount but it sounded like it was coming from the rear. Turns out it was. The rear end was clunking when ever id turn or get on the gas. I went to my grandmas house and took off the dif cover. Silver liquid starts pouring out. Turns out the spider gears are done for. I guess powerbraking with 31"s isnt to good for the ol turdy5. I had a spare axle sitting at my house so I ran home loaded it up in the passenger seat of my dads convertible and drove out there. After a lot of thinking and taking stuff apart(damn haynes manual doesnt tell you how to take apart the rear end) I figured I would have to *$#^@ rig it. I took out the dif. carrier from the spare and took off the ring gear(its a 3.73). Then I took out my carrier and replaced it with the ringless carrier. I put everything back together, put it in 4wd and drove 3 miles to Giant to get some oil. I figured some good ol 10w40 is better than nothing so i put a quart of that in it. Then I drove the 10 miles home. It held up so far so I guess I'm gonna drive to school tomorrow(I need to anyways because I was voted best clunker for the year book superlatives). Now heres the question. Are gears hard to set up? Are there any good write ups online? Also do you think I messed anything up driving it with 10w40 and without a ring gear?