ghettocruiser
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- Norristown, PA
Ok... I posted this question on a few boards and got little feedback. A couple people told me it was easy and gave me some tips, but no pictures. Basically I needed to know how to modify the housing when using an "new style" ARB in a D44. I was getting diff. fluid from the vent tube and narrowed it down to the drainage problem that the ARB creates. If you are installing an ARB... DO THIS BEFORE THE INSTALL BEGINS! It will save you the headache I had last night pulling the axle shafts and carrier to re-do it. You will see where the poor drainage comes from if you hold one of the thick master shims from the ARB in place. I took pics last night... unfortunetly I forgot to take pics of my modifications before I installed the carrier.. oops. Wasnt about to pull it back out just for pics. So I did the best I could. Hope this helps someone out...
Here is the top drain hole. This is how I made the lower part look. Just mirrored it basically.
Here is the problem area. You can see how if you put a full circle shim against the side, it really cant drain out of the bottom of the tube. It will...I think it just takes awhile. Like sitting overnight. But it cant keep up with the amount going in while driving. This is the driver's side.
Same thing but pass. side. I modified both sides.
The red shows the material to be removed. I used a die-grinder with a long thin cone shaped stone. It ate it away pretty fast and left it fairly clean...aka no burrs.
Here is the best shot I got of the part I ground down. I tried to enhance the pic as best I could so you could see better. The pic is from below the carrier looking up. So that hole is the new lower drain. I just got rid of as much material that it took to make it look like the top slot.
And of course...clean like crazy. I put towels and pieces of plastic bag inside to help cut down on the dust and metal shavings getting everywhere. I drove her last night and today and everything seems good so far. Hope this helps...sorry if this is really obvious to some of you. Ive seen a few posts on this problem and I hope that ARB makes it alittle more clear what you have to do. Some people, like me, are alittle nervous about cutting into their housing like that without being sure.
Justin
Here is the top drain hole. This is how I made the lower part look. Just mirrored it basically.
Here is the problem area. You can see how if you put a full circle shim against the side, it really cant drain out of the bottom of the tube. It will...I think it just takes awhile. Like sitting overnight. But it cant keep up with the amount going in while driving. This is the driver's side.
Same thing but pass. side. I modified both sides.
The red shows the material to be removed. I used a die-grinder with a long thin cone shaped stone. It ate it away pretty fast and left it fairly clean...aka no burrs.
Here is the best shot I got of the part I ground down. I tried to enhance the pic as best I could so you could see better. The pic is from below the carrier looking up. So that hole is the new lower drain. I just got rid of as much material that it took to make it look like the top slot.
And of course...clean like crazy. I put towels and pieces of plastic bag inside to help cut down on the dust and metal shavings getting everywhere. I drove her last night and today and everything seems good so far. Hope this helps...sorry if this is really obvious to some of you. Ive seen a few posts on this problem and I hope that ARB makes it alittle more clear what you have to do. Some people, like me, are alittle nervous about cutting into their housing like that without being sure.
Justin