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hey, I'm in Parker and have a front bumper and side steps taking up space in my side yard you can have. 98 LX in white.

I’m assuming so, I just got the picture. It sounded like gravel in a blender. Best part was, I drove it off a pretty hard trail just like that, then flat towed it to a city behind my buddies TJ to wait for AAA. Amazed that I was basically getting it off the trail in 2WD.

Finally got my rig into Slee for my ARB lockers and re-gear and they send me this pic when they got the front diff out. Glad I had the upgrade scheduled before I did this so I want out of action too long. Who needs teeth in a spider gear???

This helps make sense, thanks.

Thanks for this, I get how diffs work, what’s still confusing me is locking the center diff isn’t sending all the power to the axle with traction, it’s just making them both spin at the same speed, right? If that’s the case, then i don’t understand stand why the grinding/gravel noise from the...

Well, both drive flanges looked good, and snap rings were in place. I didn’t have time to dig into the diff side of the CV axles today, but I’m starting to feel pretty confident it’s the diff seeing as it’s a 220k mile 98 with the 2 pinion. I have an appointment with Slee for ARBs and regearing...

That makes sense. Thanks.

Sorry, yes it’s a 98 LX, so LSD rear, open front. This is my first IFS 4WD, I guess what doesn’t make sense to me is why it would be fine when locked and not fine when unlocked if it was front axle related.

So I hit an admittedly harder trail than I should have today, and had some bind in the front while in 4lo, and heard some loud clicking noises while making it up an obstacle. Stayed in 4lo the rest of the trail, then when I went to go home and shifted to 4hi, as soon as I shifted to drive the...

Alright, done with the rig for a while outside of maintenance. Started with a super clean 98 with a full maintenance history, then picked up “the largest will call order ever” from Slee (at least according to their warehouse team). Last week took out the AHC and went OME. This week got the Slee...

I got my ARB bumper in already. Skid plates in the morning then an afternoon in the Rockies.

I did, but I literally just sold it about 20 minutes ago.

It’s a bit over 200k, but had a full maintenance history, including timing belt, CV joints, steering rack etc all replaced within about 40k miles. All the maintenance crap you find needing done when you start modifying a rig was taken care of. And it’s completely rust free. After working on old...

I got my OME lift and Slee rock sliders installed. I wanted to get skids and ARB bumper on, but those will be next weekend I guess. AHC delete took more time than I expected. (If anyone needs any AHC parts, let me know!)

Got the lift and sliders on, skid plates and bumpers will wait until next weekend. It’s starting to look like a proper rig though.