gijohn40
too poor to wheel... :(
- Location
- Layton, Utah
So last weekend I was hauling my grandsons jeep bed home from Roosevelt and had a head wind that was probably 30 mph so I was in 5th gear (have a 6 spd).... well when I came over Daniels Summit and started to coast, there was this terrible noise of gears eating gears... I pulled over and checked everything under the jeep and didn't see anything obviously wrong. So I just kept the jeep in the power side of the gears until I could get to Heber.
When I got there I looked underneath again and there was oil everywhere behind the diff. I pushed the driveline up and and down and it moved alot. The seal had blown and was no longer around so all the fluid in the diff was now all over the backside. I called Brett Davis and he came and trailered me home.
Today I got the chance to work on it and when I pulled the diff cover I saw the damage to my Detroit locker. once I got the ring gear and detroit out I noticed now much play was in the pinion. I pulled the drive shaft and though damn now I have to put it all back together to get the nut off the yoke so I can pull the pinion out... well guess what... the nut was so loose that I was able to remove it by hand.
So after looking everything over and cleaning all the metal shavings out of the diff it looks like the pinion is still ok as well as the ring gear. The bearings that the pinion rides on are both ok.
The detroit looks like it probably needs to be replace. Thinking now would be the great time to get that Eaton E-locker to match the front.
So all you structural Engineers... do you think I should replace the bearing in the housing that the pinion rides on? do you think that the detroit could actually still be ok?
What would you do?
When I got there I looked underneath again and there was oil everywhere behind the diff. I pushed the driveline up and and down and it moved alot. The seal had blown and was no longer around so all the fluid in the diff was now all over the backside. I called Brett Davis and he came and trailered me home.
Today I got the chance to work on it and when I pulled the diff cover I saw the damage to my Detroit locker. once I got the ring gear and detroit out I noticed now much play was in the pinion. I pulled the drive shaft and though damn now I have to put it all back together to get the nut off the yoke so I can pull the pinion out... well guess what... the nut was so loose that I was able to remove it by hand.
So after looking everything over and cleaning all the metal shavings out of the diff it looks like the pinion is still ok as well as the ring gear. The bearings that the pinion rides on are both ok.
The detroit looks like it probably needs to be replace. Thinking now would be the great time to get that Eaton E-locker to match the front.
So all you structural Engineers... do you think I should replace the bearing in the housing that the pinion rides on? do you think that the detroit could actually still be ok?
What would you do?
