Yeah I know i should have done that....I thought about it after the fact, I'll just do that later down the road, I'll run it like it is for now. They say 8.8 on them so I thought it was the metric equivalent? I may actually grind down the stock ones cause the new ones' bolt heads are a little too big to get a closed end wrench around. I just wanted to get out on the trail today, which I'll get some pictures of up in a little bit as for the trip planning, I'm already on it...


No one's bitten though lol

https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f15/...norcal-183832/

I though about it, but I didn't wanna deal with the axle seal etc...I may do that later down the road if it becomes a problem.

 

I went out wheelin up at Bob's place, and it was awesome!!! The truck did unbelievable with the gears and locker! Didn't get any good pictures, but here are a couple. There was a sick buggy up there with a 454 on pane and 1 tons and everything else you can think of. The trails up there are really gnarly and you need a tubed buggy or exocaged rig to not mess up your vehicle with the trees etc. I went on the outside loop that links all the trails together that is fairly easy, but very steep and definitely can feel the use of the locker!





Very steep!!!

 

i gave up on it for now as well. it's not only the seal, which i got, but i dry fitted it together and you'll need new bolts to mount the axle tube to the housing. the stock bolts (from the non-ADD) will bottom out in the holes of the 4.88 (ADD) diff before seating the flange.

without armor, i dunno if my truck is ready to hit fordyce yet. where's bob's place? is that the private OHV park in vacaville?

 

Yeah you definitely need armor for Fordyce, but you could forsure do Eagle Lakes/Signal peak just pick the right lines

Bob's is a up in the hills of Vacaville on a guy's private property. He's a great guy and lets anyone up there on Sundays. There's only a few little trails that a semi built truck can go on, most rigs are like that buggy, or exo'ed with dual transfercases locked front and rear, it's all super steep ravines climbin up the side of the mountains.

 

So I finally got my diff armor and got it welded on. I asked a question earlier about whether or not you should take out the third member....I was told by a couple people on pirate to leave it in because the clamping force from the studs holding the third in will prevent the axle housing from warping out of shape so easily. So I left it in and welded it on then changed the diff fluid to Royal Purple since the gears are done breaking in after a couple hundred miles. I also on a tab for a cb mount on my MC rear bumper real quick I'm lovin the new welder I got and am learnin pretty quickly

 

looks good dude

 

Thanks

 

As promised, the writeup has been updated with a couple more pictures and some other more detailed information

 

i must warn you that you can break the locker really easy if you don't shorten you housing tubes use it wisely tell then i am on my second one and i did it right this time around
mine shorten half an inc so i have full spine engagemeant

 

I haven't had any troubles with mine at all yet. I've ran part of Fordyce once and Mix Challenge (mixchallenge.info) for the past 4 weekends straight and no problems, and it's been wheeled hard...I don't doubt the problem, but I don't think they'll break "easy" otherwise it'd be broken right now.

 

how much was the total cost?
i want 1 of those (jealous)

 

so you just went and got a newer factory locker?

 

It was roughly $700, but that's with new gears as well.

yep...

 

man this is awesome.. so stoked to get mine sunday

 

lol i have blown up 5 elockers in the last year

this timei split the carreio in half

sheader all the bolts off and twsied a tg cromo rear axle and took out the ring gear i am done with e lockers hellt he one big bareing can only be bought form toyota and there 100 bucks

there to pricey for me to fix now

 

I"ve had zero problems with mine and I've got dual cases and have run it hard. I love mine, seems like your gears or something were'nt set up right or your axle housing modification messed everything up. I know a couple people that run elockers as well and they love theirs too.

 

Again if you have any questions ask me....I think you tried to send me a pm but my inbox was full...sorry about that

 

Still waiting for my bud to tell me to come over... grr the waiting kills

 

WHOOOO!!! So stoked right now...
whats better than one elocker?

































two.. hehe

 

Nice, what gears ya got in them? Too bad ya don't have a solid front to put the second to use...you gunna sell it or what?