I'm broke

[kemolewis]

I was driving home from work today and had just pulled onto the freeway when BOOM something in my front end blew up. I pulled it off of the freeway and parked it and called a friend to see if he could look at it and called somebody else to have it towed to his house.

The tow truck got there and the front wheels wont even spin now so he had to drag it on to the flatbed with the winch.

I have no idea what happened but I am thinking broken axel, blown ring and pinion, broken wheel bearing, or my favorite all of the above.

Well here is the diagnosis: Cracked ring and pinion, shreaded spider gears, bent axel, fried both bearings. Man did I FFFF it up, when I pulled the diff cover off it sounded like coins dropping into the tray at the casino (tink tink tink tink tink)

Hopefully I will have it fixed this weekend and be on the trail next weekend.

[AZLugz]

That sucks!!!! Good luck on the rebuild!

[kemolewis]

That sucks!!!! Good luck on the rebuild!

Thanks now I just need to locate a D30 for it hopefully with some steeper gears maybe 4:10's

[x*ALEX*J]

Well you can buy them brand new, or hit the junk yard and lokk for a I-4 that has them stock..

[Fire Ball]

It ain't broke till you can't fix it!! :D

[ademster]

What gears you have now..

I have a complete carrier for 3.55 gears and numerically lower...

You can have it..

I dont have axles not bearings, but I can give you the carrier.

[d10shun]

Did you check NAXJAs Arizona chapter yet? There is bound to be something.

[sms1688]

I have a d30 with 4.11 gears I might be able to part with.

[ademster]

if gets the 4:10s he still will need to get a new carrier and gears for the rear.

Install kits.

[TRLR8TDTJ]

I might have stock open carrier and 3.73 gears on it. If interested I will look for it.

Kyle

[TanTJJim]

Man that sucks, so it looks like you're pretty much going to be doing a whole axle swap then huh? If you need a hand this coming weekend doing some install let me know.

[lancetkenyon]

Might as well buy a whole new axle assembly. It will probably be cheaper at a junkyard for the whole thing, than to replace individual pieces.

[jeepcj5nut]

That is a sinking feeling!!!

I went through the same thing but it was my Dana 35 rear.

Good luck!!!

[kemolewis]

Did you check NAXJAs Arizona chapter yet? There is bound to be something.

Yea I have this posted on 5 different forums but this is the only one I am getting anything off of yet

[kemolewis]

Might as well buy a whole new axle assembly. It will probably be cheaper at a junkyard for the whole thing, than to replace individual pieces.

Thats what I am looking to do but thought I would check on some of the different forums to see if anybody had one laying around

[kemolewis]

That is a sinking feeling!!!

I went through the same thing but it was my Dana 35 rear.

Good luck!!!

Yeah I did the rear about 2 months ago but it was just making noise so I could still get around with it before I replace it, this one just exploded on me on the freeway. I am just glad is didnt seize up the wheels then at 70mph that would have sucked.

[Gasman]

I have a HP disco housing (straight) and carrier (with bearings) for 3.92 and up that you can have for free. Housing has new ball joints and passenger side seal for 1 piece shaft.

[sms1688]

if gets the 4:10s he still will need to get a new carrier and gears for the rear.

Install kits.
Does he need a new carrier? I have the carrier attached to the gear anyway i replaced it all when I went to 4.88 gears. he will just have to set up the gears. Unless I am wrong which I am alot

[Allen]

I have all them parts w/3:73 gears!

front shafts
ring and pinion
spider gears
carrier

pm me if your interested!

[sms1688]

I have the whole thing housing carrier everything

[kemolewis]

Still looking for an axle assembly I called like 8 or 9 wrecking yards today and only found one that had one and of course they are closed tomorrow anyone out there have a d30 with 3:55 gears that will bolt onto my xj

[GLEN REAMS]

Kemo that junk yard i told you about had a i-4 there so it should have the 410 gears in it. and it still had both axles under it too

[kemolewis]

I called them and they said that they didnt have one that would work

[GLEN REAMS]

I called them and they said that they didnt have one that would work

why wouldnt it work??