Recent content by wavingpine11

I found and hopefully eliminated the terrible cracking noise that occurred when I would turn the steering wheel, particularly in 4 low. My 2.5 year old was able to turn the steering wheel just far enough for me to see that the axle end track bar bolt had some movement to it. I tightened that...

Just be cautious tearing the differential apart. Do your research or you'll easily be in over your head. Check for play in the pinion first, and if there is some, check to see that the pinion nut is at least at 160 ft-lb of torque. There are special tools and a lot of setup work involved in...

Unfortunately, the cable has to approach from that side or it wouldn't be positioned to do its job. That's the "non-ring gear side" of the differential, and the cable pushes on a piece under the diff cover that fits into a grooved collar on the differential that in turn pushes a locking piece...

I'm voting a) due to bad pinion bearings, based on your description of the noise, and b) based on the precession of the drive shaft caused by the loose bearings rather than the double cardan joint that highspeed and md21722 have suggested. I just solved this very same noise on my front axle...

Here is an illustrative picture showing a number of the front end modifications that I've done that will hopefully increase the survivability of the Dana 30 running the 35 inch LTB tires. While the axle was out for the pinion bearing replacement, I mentioned that I added the bump stops...

I'd like to throw in my recent pinion bearing experience. I bought a used set of axles, a HP D30 and a Chrysler 8.25, to take advantage of the stock 4.10 gears in them. Before I installed them on the vehicle, I swapped out the carriers and readjusted the carrier shims to arrive at a decent...

That's pretty funny. Good thing you caught it before you ran it that way!

I've now replaced the pinion bearings and set up the gears again but I believe the pinion is a bit on the deep side. I had obtained a set of setup bearings for the carrier (which are for the stock Dana 30 carrier and don't work with my OX carrier) that also included an inner pinion bearing...

Just wondering--did you have to pound out/pound back in the inner pinion bearing race each time you adjusted? I used a setup race recently but the results didn't match the final result when I swapped in the actual press-fit race.

That looks really nice. Good job!

Cool--thanks for the information on the bearing/race combination. Now for my follow-up on the inner pinion bearing set-up race. Sadly, my Timken setup race did not work well with the Koyo actual race. I spent a lot of time doing the setup and when I pounded in the actual press-fit race...

I suspect these shims are correct for the Dana 30 high pinion Eaton E-Locker referenced in this recent thread as well-- http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1122500 --since it uses the same carrier bearing that my OX locker does.

Useful information: I'm reshimming a D30 OX locker carrier. This is the shim pack to get if you have this OX carrier. Or if you have a 30 spline D44. OX USA told me on the phone that the Ratech 1116 shim set also works. The Yukon part number yielded the same shims I already was using. The...

Are they really a set from manufacture or do they become a set as they wear together? Can't you buy the bearings and races separately? My inclination is to use setup bearings (or the setup race in the case of the inner pinion bearing) matched with the final races so that as few variables...

Consider taking a set of calipers and measuring the thickness of each bearing/race combination, and compare all values to see if you have one that is out of spec. Are the races LM102911s (just wondering because this is the combination that my 30 spline OX carrier uses)? Are you using a...