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shaving a 8.25 housing
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CharlesS
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- Quezon Province, Philippines
This is what the back of the housing looked like before I shaved it...
These pictures are taken from the front before and after I shaved the housing...
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Shaving the housing provides more clearance and allows the differential to slide over rocks easier....
Used an abrasive grinding stone to smooth and remove the housing material....
These pictures are taken from the front before and after I shaved the housing...
Before:
After:
Shaving the housing provides more clearance and allows the differential to slide over rocks easier....
Used an abrasive grinding stone to smooth and remove the housing material....
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Built2Flex
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Cut the part of the housing that hangs below your diff cover. That's all.
- Location
- Roanoke VA
Better off to buy the RuffStuff cover and shave it even to the cover, I've done this to 2 of mine and no issues beating the h*** out of them.
JNickel101
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- Location
- Alamogordo, NM
What tool w/ an abrasive stone did you use to do that?
WB9YZU
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Madison, WI
I used a 4 1/2 side grinder with a cutting wheel attached. It worked very nicely 
Ron
Ron
- Location
- Roanoke VA
I used a 80 grit flapper wheel on a 4 1/2 grinder. It goes fast on the cast.
CharlesS
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Quezon Province, Philippines
4 1/2" angle grinder
JNickel101
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Alamogordo, NM
Looks like the consensus is the 4.5" angle grinder....time to break mine out
winkosmosis
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Maui, Hawaii
How do you know it doesn't weaken it?
WB9YZU
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- Location
- Madison, WI
<Madgaskar "Skipper" voice>
By scientific methode my friend, by scientific methode.
</skipper>
I believe someone here did the tried and true 10 Summo (tm pending*) test.
They set up deflection gages on the axle tubes, then they got a special hitch platform setup on the 2" reciever so that 10 Summo Wrestlers could stand comfortably on it. At the count of 3, they all jumped up and landed in the Summo (tm*) stance.
Well the Class III hitch tore straight off the frame mounts as if they were attached with nylon bolts, but the gages at the axle registered no deflection.
Thus it was deamed "Good to Go" (tm*), and also "Reliable as Hell" (tm*).
Inspector 12 from Haynes stamped her seal of approval on it, and there you have it.
Ron
By scientific methode my friend, by scientific methode.
</skipper>
I believe someone here did the tried and true 10 Summo (tm pending*) test.
They set up deflection gages on the axle tubes, then they got a special hitch platform setup on the 2" reciever so that 10 Summo Wrestlers could stand comfortably on it. At the count of 3, they all jumped up and landed in the Summo (tm*) stance.
Well the Class III hitch tore straight off the frame mounts as if they were attached with nylon bolts, but the gages at the axle registered no deflection.
Thus it was deamed "Good to Go" (tm*), and also "Reliable as Hell" (tm*).
Inspector 12 from Haynes stamped her seal of approval on it, and there you have it.
Ron
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CharlesS
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Quezon Province, Philippines
I run 32's on my '98 also... I am conscious of the location of my front and rear pumpkins and try to pick lines for an obstacle that dont BASH the differentials.... Understanding that there are occasions where it is unavoidable...; smoothing of the pumpkin will all the differential to slide across instead of getting hung up...
