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Kajun that rack looks great 
did a little exploring in the hills of TN
did a little exploring in the hills of TN
What did you do with your truck this week?
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Kajun
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Kajun that rack looks great
did a little exploring in the hills of TN
Thanks. It will look even better with a RTT roaming around in your neck of the woods.
Southeast Overland
Get lost! Go explore!
Your pic was only sideways this time!
Not mine but I've certainly dumped a bunch of sweat in it. Just waiting on the tires to get mounted.
Southeast Overland
Get lost! Go explore!
I already shared a pic on the shops FB page. It looks great.
kajun, nice rack!
that trailer is amazing marshall. where do you folks take tube tires to get mounted?
i have been MIA doing house chores. cut a new pass through from kitchen to living room, r&r baby stained carpet with hardwood, built entertainment center. it's hard to make much progress with little ones running around. what i thought would be done in a few weekends took 4 months!
after that i managed to finally paint and swap my wheels. thrilled with them!
that trailer is amazing marshall. where do you folks take tube tires to get mounted?
i have been MIA doing house chores. cut a new pass through from kitchen to living room, r&r baby stained carpet with hardwood, built entertainment center. it's hard to make much progress with little ones running around. what i thought would be done in a few weekends took 4 months!
after that i managed to finally paint and swap my wheels. thrilled with them!
That looks much much better
Agreed. Wait until you get out numbered with kids. 
Damn that is pimp Joel...didn't know you were a wood crafter.
Pulled the power steering pump and smog pump, pulled one out of an early 80s Volvo, and cleaned the vomit from the under hood. Now to put the two together.
Changed oil and plugs in the T with a little help from a few of the kids. Sure does run better with the new plugs!
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Kajun
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Installed my dual battery management system. Works well so far. Now I can begin the serious task wiring of all my interior stuff.
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Spent most of Saturday tearing down my rear axle. Guess what?
Posted on FB and learned a bit more from an old friend from the Trail Teams. Turns out these 8" diffs experience flex within the carrier. The ring gear deflects enough to bind up the gear pattern. Same issue Ford 9" diffs have. The Ford fix is to install a "load bolt" into the housing which is positioned a gnat's hair away from the back of the ring gear just to keep it from flexing too much out from true center. Yukon even makes a 9" carrier with the load bolt already there. Doesn't look like I can do that with the TEQ 8" third housing though.
The TEQ 8.4" diffs used in older Tundras, Tacos and T100's had trusses across the carrier reinforcing the side bearings. I'm wondering if I can fabricate something similar. Like this one:
Posted on FB and learned a bit more from an old friend from the Trail Teams. Turns out these 8" diffs experience flex within the carrier. The ring gear deflects enough to bind up the gear pattern. Same issue Ford 9" diffs have. The Ford fix is to install a "load bolt" into the housing which is positioned a gnat's hair away from the back of the ring gear just to keep it from flexing too much out from true center. Yukon even makes a 9" carrier with the load bolt already there. Doesn't look like I can do that with the TEQ 8" third housing though.
The TEQ 8.4" diffs used in older Tundras, Tacos and T100's had trusses across the carrier reinforcing the side bearings. I'm wondering if I can fabricate something similar. Like this one:
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Your biggest issue is going to be making something perfectly flat. Any unevenness and you could make the problem worse. I'm thinking make the piece having all 4 bolts connected. Then have both sides surfaced. Then cold cut on a bandsaw. The cats meow would be done on a cnc. Make a bunch and sell them. Might want to patent that one.
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I hear ya. Making something that fits inside the axle housing is going to be the trick as well. I know a CNC miller, so prototyping not too much of an issue. ACC has an extra FJC third laying around that we could pattern from, but we just scrapped that bent axle housing - Dammit!
Maybe not worry about fitting it and come up with a beefier diff cover.
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Engineering a new diff cover for an axle housing that has none at all? That's part of the reason I regret trashing the bent housing. I really don't want to prototype with my own axle housing.
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So look at the better pics I added to the above post. The trusses are actually added on top of the side bearing caps and longer bolts are used. If I could find an old T100 diff from a junkyard, I'd be willing to bet those trusses would bolt up to my carrier. Then its just a matter of seeing if it will fit inside my axle. And if not, then I just need to blow out the back of the diff and add some steel to clearance the trusses.
Ahh wasn't aware the rear axle didn't have a cover.
Got the powder coating back from Smoking Gun for Andy's new motor.
