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51 R18 Rebuild
the old trucker:
Dave.... How are you doing with your new differential ?? Get it put in yet ??
A nosey OT.
dpaulson:
I ordered a ARB air locker from a California company. They say it is still on back order after 2 months. I'm to call again this Friday. I hope that I havn't been taken. I've got the 4.86 pinion and motive gears as well as the rebuild bearings and gaskets, so as soon as I receive the locker, I'll will be installing it. I also have a better windshield wiper setup to install (a 2 wiper system with 1 motor). Only about 4 months and winter is here.
dpaulson:
The air locker and compressor finally showed up today. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks I'll get it installed into the diff. I've got some reading to do on how to get the gears set up properly.
dpaulson:
Got a couple hours in, well actually closer to a day and a half :). I installed the new motive and pinion gears which is 4.86 and the ARB air locker. Setup wasn't too bad. The Ford 9" is supposed to be the easiest for a beginner to set up.
dpaulson:
Diff is back together. Locker verified no air leaks and engages. Made new mounting brackets to get welded on the tube. Now just to pull the bombardier out of storage and install. I will need to make new adapters to mount the sprockets on as this diff has a different bolt pattern as well as the offset need to keep the sprocket inline with the wheels.
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