What did Brown Santa show up with today..

Brown Santa showed up with a woody today... and then hit me up for more fees for crossing the border.

Tom woods driveshaft looks great. Sadly I ripped my ring and pinion apart between ordering the new driveshaft and delivery of the driveshaft...

So now I'm waiting for a few more weeks for a new complete axle assembly to show up, instead of replacing diff parts again.

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jkrichard said:
Brown Santa showed up with a woody today... and then hit me up for more fees for crossing the border.

Tom woods driveshaft looks great. Sadly I ripped my ring and pinion apart between ordering the new driveshaft and shipping of the driveshaft...

So now I'm waiting for a few more weeks for a new complete axle assembly to show up, instead of replacing diff parts again.

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What happened?
 
WJCO said:
What happened?
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Drove over the snow bank from the snowplow to get in my driveway.... I have no clue why it ripped 3 teeth of the ring gear. Had I been driving it like a lunatic or wheeling the crap out of it I could understand, but seriously my 14" snow bank?!?

So instead of paying a shop to replace the whole front end for near half the price of a new axle... I decided to spend some money that I did not want to touch.

Sucks but I need it to be reliable for my wedding in moab at end of April.20170207_112553.jpg

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jkrichard said:
Drove over the snow bank from the snowplow to get in my driveway.... I have no clue why it ripped 3 teeth of the ring gear. Had I been driving it like a lunatic or wheeling the crap out of it I could understand, but seriously my 14" snow bank?!?

So instead of paying a shop to replace the whole front end for near half the price of a new axle... I decided to spend some money that I did not want to touch.

Sucks but I need it to be reliable for my wedding in moab at end of April.View attachment 243202

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What size tires and what gear ratio? I did that same thing once on a low mileage sandrail but I was pushing 400hp on a stock VW transaxle. I revved up the engine and dumped the clutch. It was a sudden amount of torque to the ring gear resulting in the same thing.
 
jkrichard said:
Drove over the snow bank from the snowplow to get in my driveway.... I have no clue why it ripped 3 teeth of the ring gear. Had I been driving it like a lunatic or wheeling the crap out of it I could understand, but seriously my 14" snow bank?!?

So instead of paying a shop to replace the whole front end for near half the price of a new axle... I decided to spend some money that I did not want to touch.

Sucks but I need it to be reliable for my wedding in moab at end of April.View attachment 243202

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Could have just been a freak occurrence. Maybe all the hard wheeling you had previously put it through, it was on the verge of chipping and that was the last straw.
 
WJCO said:
What size tires and what gear ratio? I did that same thing once on a low mileage sandrail but I was pushing 400hp on a stock VW transaxle. I revved up the engine and dumped the clutch. It was a sudden amount of torque to the ring gear resulting in the same thing.
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4.88 and 35's on the dana 30

Dealership did the regear so I'm not sure what they used for brand. It was a few years back too.

Houston I'm sure it could have been a last straw kind of situation as well but sadly it's not the first time I've had that 30 grenade so I'm not willing to fix it again.

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Mike_JK_Houston_711 said:
Time to go with a prorock 44 :)
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Can't do the PR44 unfortunately. The $1000 difference at this particular point in time was not feasible. .. quite frankly I didn't want to spend what I had to to get the Core 44. Canadian costs for imported parts is full retard, and my play money is at a low point due to the wedding costs. I am dipping into funds I did not want to touch for many years as it is.
 
jkrichard said:
Can't do the PR44 unfortunately. The $1000 difference at this particular point in time was not feasible. .. quite frankly I didn't want to spend what I had to to get the Core 44. Canadian costs for imported parts is full retard, and my play money is at a low point due to the wedding costs. I am dipping into funds I did not want to touch for many years as it is.
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ProRock vs wedding? What shit are you smoking?
 
jkrichard said:
I'm not too familiar with the usual appearance of the TJ diff but what shot out of that and made a hole that big? ??

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I'm not sure, I was so busy at work I wasn't able to help him change it, he just replaced the whole thing. I'll have to go look sometime. I was thinking it was the round pin in the spider gears but not being a mechanic not sure if this axle even has that in it?


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JKbrick said:
I'm not sure, I was so busy at work I wasn't able to help him change it, he just replaced the whole thing. I'll have to go look sometime. I was thinking it was the round pin in the spider gears but not being a mechanic not sure if this axle even has that in it?


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Yeah, looks like the spider gear crosspin came out.
 
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