Stretched TJK (bigger rubber & extra inches)

[B00mb00m]

It's been a while. Some positive news. While new axles are on order and the Jeep passed inspection, I decided to park the jeep for the winter and see if the front axle is salvageable. I carefully torched the pinion out of the housing. Old outer pinion race was .005" smaller than new. The new race could be installed no different than normal. I suspect my housing is good! Pinion lost the war, though.. . I'll rebuild the axle and use it while I slowly build the ECGS axles.

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This same thing happened to me after my housing dried out while doing my front coil over swap. The Ultimate Dana 44 front actually has a service bulletin for it. You have to squirt oil up onto the pinion when you do initial fill. End of the first trip seized up pinion bearing.

 

[sierradmax]

This same thing happened to me after my housing dried out while doing my front coil over swap. The Ultimate Dana 44 front actually has a service bulletin for it. You have to squirt oil up onto the pinion when you do initial fill. End of the first trip seized up pinion bearing.

interesting. There's a FB group for gear and technical installs. Some folks there stated to run front high pinion rigs in reverse a bit, for new installs, so the ring gear can sling some oil up into the passage. Before I install the new axles, I'll point the pinion(s) to the ground and fill the diffs.

 

[sierradmax]

Well, I reassembled the JK front and have about 100 miles on it. So far, so good. However, this arrived this week. nearly 5 months since ordering.