HA! yea thats what I meant! I always mix them up for some reason...hehehe

 

Its a product called Durabak. You can order it online. It's an industrial non-slip coating. Similar to a Herculiner product but industrial grade. Works good. Dont get it on your hootus. From my research its the best bang for the buck...
http://www.nonslipcoating.com/

 

I got the axle all shaved last night..Ripping that plug out this weekend really pissed me off and I don't want it to ever happen again.....This was waaaaay easier than I thought it was gonna be...the hardest part is disconnecting the axle from the truck. I used 1/4" steel and left a little over 1/8 inch clearance on the ring gear.

..heres some pics.....

The victim>>>

Rough cut







The edges of the plate are beveled (as well as the cut in the housing) so that the weld fills in correctly giving it a nice flush fit



Looks like it should fit right?

 

Final product>>

 

Eh, so I keep discovering broken parts upon dis/re assembly...... The total damage report is: stripped drainplug, stripped ARP studs out of knuckle, 2 wasted trunions and 2 wasted TREs

Heres some random pics for the masses>>



I trimmed off the bottom "perch"/rock anchor

Camera doesnt focus close up very well



Some sexy new seals...thanks Marlin

I picked up this Kustom seal driver kit from Fontucky Fab....thanks Peps! :clap:


I replaced the bottom 2 studs with button head bolts since they are the first thing to hit the rocks now....


Here is the offending drain plug....


I decided to compromise with the magnet and use a drain plug/magnet on the fill plug...maybe it will slosh the gear oil up on it and metal will stick...who knows?

 

how are you going to drain your diff now?

 

I knew I forgot something!





just kidding.....The bottom two studs were replaced with button heads.....simply remove those two bolts and it drains out.....

 

Forgot I added this at some point....Downey header with a Flowmaster Hushpower....and I built a new rear shock tower
Sounds cherry!




Also added a rock camera


and some LED rock lites

 

nice work!!

 

gotcha. Now i see how you are gonna do it. Awesome fabrication. Your doing a great job.

 

Toymin8er and I took her out for a little testing...everything works awesome except I decided I need a front locker BAAAAD....OR hurry up and build a winch bumper lol...



Fun little trail...I got stopped at the top..no locker in the front

 

nice!! so you got 4" marlin long travel springs all around?? looks like it flexes comfortably!

 

Yes....and I am verrrrry happy with them...talk about stout....the rear springs weigh like 75 pounds each and are 9 leaf packs with an anti wrap....

I am still breaking them in after probably 8-10 hard runs

 

NICE! i do you know if theres a difference between marlin springs and allpro or trailgear springs? i know they have almost the exact same kits but i was wondering about the quality...

 

From what I understand Marlins US springs and All pros come from the same manufacturer: Betts Spring Company. They are made from US steel and assembled into packs in Indonesia (I believe).... Trail gears arent bad from what I have seen.....the first few batches seem to have had sagging/bending problems but for the most part "from what I have heard" this has been corrected.

Sky Manufacturing now offers springs as well. Sky told me that they are manufactured by a company called Portland Spring Company. I dont know much else about them though...

 

a quick video of some full throttle sloppy hill assaults....didnt make it up....need a front locker!

http://i111.photobucket.com/player.s...nkedjuly08.flv

 

drool at that trail...

 

So I finally started building a bumper yesterday...hope to finish it up this afternooon! It doesnt look like much now but its gonna be sweet. I'm using a combination of 1 3/4, 1½ and 1" DOM tubing. The winch plate is a trail gear one because i got lazy but whatever....I've had it sitting around forever.

The springs settled in nice and level now

Nice clean slate to work with



These are the cappers for the ends of the tube

 

While we are on the subject of trail gear parts check out the ears on this trail gear long spline section....see anything wrong here? btw..this is not mine...its a friends

 

Left ear looks tapered at the top (thinner).