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You’re not really missing anything, the factory spider/side gears in the Dana 35 are pretty weak. That combined with people not changing the gear oil and/or abusing the axle (off-roading, large tires, some mean combo of all of the above) leads to the pitting. There are upgraded Spicer spider gears...

Were they abused or did they not hold up well? Going to assume abused, but I wouldn’t be surprised if quality is poor these days.

The issue with the slinger was he didn’t have it in there and so everything was tightening up before he had the nut tight enough. D30s have their depth somewhere in the range of about 0.060-0.080. From the factory they use a 0.020” baffle and a custom thickness slinger. Combined, the two add...

Wow, a whopping 4.2°F. Thankfully the engines don’t run 100° above that. Oh, wait….

It sucks. This is how they force you to buy something new, by taking away all ability to keep the old vehicles in shape. I too wouldn’t know what to do if I hadn’t gotten my NOS Mopar from Collins Bros a few years ago. I’m not touching it again until I have a problem, hopefully never with how...

As long as no one installs LEDs because LEDs are actually diodes that block current flow in one direction.

200,000 mile iridium XPs installed in 1995

Correct.

Yes, out of context that specific behavior is fine because stock does it. Doesn’t change that he still has a problem though. It’s just not the exact thing he thought was a problem that is the actual problem.

OPs lamps are not working in certain conditions because he installed LEDs and he was wondering if he needs the known fix for his situation or not.

No, the turn signals and side markers flashing opposite is just a byproduct of the design. They wanted to use a 2-wire incandescent bulb to do two functions: be a side marker and blink as a turn signal. The way they accomplished that was with a floating ground setup. The front turn signal bulb...

There is a chance the bulbs are indeed non polar already and are malfunctioning only in certain situations due to the front LEDs. Kinda uncharted territory as usually the side markers behave much worse as soon as LEDs are installed in the front turn buckets, so it's hard for me to say anything...

Interesting. Most of that is normal behavior, the one thing malfunctioning is the side markers not working as a turn signal when the lights are off. That is almost certainly due to the bulbs chosen not having a rectifier in them that allows the current and ground to work on either side of the...

You need to evaluate how they operate both with headlights on and off. Front turn signals and side markers blink in unison with headlights off. They alternate when headlights are on. You also might have a problem in one situation but not the other due to the power flow through the LEDs only...

My chart I created (based on factory speed reading data & actual tire sizes) says that 5.13 and 33's would be best matched to factory settings with a 43 tooth. The factory does read about 4-5% fast on the speed side, so you might want a 41-42 instead if you prioritize speed accuracy. The factory...