Rth bior diff drop alignment

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Hey guys having trouble getting bolts aligned here. The bolt holes appear to be on the frame which i think means if it don't fit, it don't fit. Can somebody confirm?

Thoughts? I'll be muscling this and yelling at it to see if it helps.

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Busted some thread to get it trough.

This looks crooked hmm

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Can't get this threading either.

Yeah does not look very good does it.

Am I installing wrong? No directions, but it seems plug and play.

Might have to go back to drive it.

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Yeah both bolted. If the holes were 1mm further apart I'd have been screwed.

Still trying to thread the main bolt but can't because angling diff downwards means the bolt doesn't point straight. I can only think of disconnecting the shaft
 
I don't know if i can help but... I'm assuming that you are using a jack to hold the diff up? If not, it will help while aligning the holes. Back a year ago or so, I was talking to Mike and he did say that he had a few that he had to replace because something was off so i don't know if that's happening again. I would make sure that the diff was supported on a jack first. i'd remove the horizontal bolt that goes through the diff arm support and don't put any of the vertical bolts that support the diff into the frame of the truck. Loosen the bolts that hold the diff drop in place. You kinda have to make sure that the diff drop is in place before sitting the diff arm and bolt into the diff drop otherwise there may be some force that's causing something to be skewed. After the diff drop is in place with the 4 bolts, then tighten that down, align the diff with the aluminum spacers in place and try to thread the bolts (vertical) into the frame and then lastly connect the diff arm onto the diff drop. This part you may have to wiggle to get the bolt hole to align.

In the first pic, you have the diff arm bolted to the diff drop before the four bolts that hold in the diff drop are in place. I think this is where the problem is. I could be wrong. This is what i'd do. If this still doesn't work, i'd call mike. Hope this helps some.
 
Ok I'm an idiot I needed to drop the rear first. An instruction guide would have helped hahah. Will do write up later
 
I don't know if i can help but... I'm assuming that you are using a jack to hold the diff up? If not, it will help while aligning the holes. Back a year ago or so, I was talking to Mike and he did say that he had a few that he had to replace because something was off so i don't know if that's happening again. I would make sure that the diff was supported on a jack first. i'd remove the horizontal bolt that goes through the diff arm support and don't put any of the vertical bolts that support the diff into the frame of the truck. Loosen the bolts that hold the diff drop in place. You kinda have to make sure that the diff drop is in place before sitting the diff arm and bolt into the diff drop otherwise there may be some force that's causing something to be skewed. After the diff drop is in place with the 4 bolts, then tighten that down, align the diff with the aluminum spacers in place and try to thread the bolts (vertical) into the frame and then lastly connect the diff arm onto the diff drop. This part you may have to wiggle to get the bolt hole to align.

In the first pic, you have the diff arm bolted to the diff drop before the four bolts that hold in the diff drop are in place. I think this is where the problem is. I could be wrong. This is what i'd do. If this still doesn't work, i'd call mike. Hope this helps some.


The diff drop itself was having trouble fitting onto the frame, which I assume does not flex in any reasonable way.

The fit was extremely tight and took literally screwing the bolt onto the frame to get enough leverage to bend the frame with enough force.

That said, my issue getting the diff spacers installed was stupid operator error... I didn't loosen the rear front diff mount first.

CV angles are improved... the boots no longer fold onto themselves.
 
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