Well I guess I"m making a trac bar

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Adam (hellbent40) built a nice one.
Jay and I also built a trac bar for his 40 that works very well.


And yes.... lets see some carnage pics!
 
So far I don't have any pictures from folks yet other then this 1

4x4 broken.webp
 
I was climbing up a little rock hill and rolled back slightly to take another go at the part I was stuck on. Rolled back a bit and heard a big BANG. Drive shaft was hanging down so I figured I'd broken a Ujoint or drive shaft. but it was the pinion.

I'm guessing after some reading this is because I don't have an antiwrap bar. Or I had too much slop in my rear axle.. or both.

To get mobile again I pulled the rear cover off and undid the bolts that normaly hold the diff into the front of the casing. Since the pinion was sheared off I could just remove the front (normally the whole diff has to come out and you need to pull the axles to do that) after removing the chunk of broken pinion inside the diff I was able to bolt the front back on (without a pinion) and put the 2 U shaped pieces that hold the axles / diff in place.

Originally I was planning to pull the axles and then put them back in and let my brakes create a full floater type effect (I have rear disks) but this proved unnecessary as I never needed to take the C clips out. (Plus difficult as the ring gear was jammed into the pinion and couldn't be rotated)

Prob took around 1 hour to get the chunk of pinion out... then a long day of having to winch over all the obstacles on the way out. (Especially little uphill sections as the front had no weight on it and lost traction).

I found out just how differently the truck operates in 2WD front ... quite scary at times trying to crawl down off of rocks in 2wd as you feel you have very different control when you apply/remove power. (Or at least I felt like that)
 
That blows. At least it didn't break in a small creek. Are you still running stock gears? The ones from those 70 axles?

Time to think re-gear while you are in there eh?
 
slowandsteady BJ said:
Thats the kit Adam used and its sexy! Now that you aren't a poor student, buy the good stuff and save some labour work.
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Poor student... cheap bastard... its a fine blurry line.


For the length of the bar... any suggestions ect?

Does it really matter.... I was told the longer the better as long as it fits?
 
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