locked rearend

[billym9]

is it possoble for me to modify my stock rearend to be a locked rearend

 

[rckid91]

yeah
they sell a spool for it

 

[olds97_lss]

Or, you can clean out the diff cup of all oil and clean off the spider gears, then jam some silly putty in there and put it back together. I cleaned one out and filled it with JB-Weld once... but the spider gears where pretty much toast and the cup was really worn, so I didn't care.

 

[rckid91]

the spool is only ten bucks why not do it the right way???

 

[olds97_lss]

Takes the fun out of it

 

[Racer 1966]

I've done it both ways. I like the locked diff myself. My spool only cost me 30 minutes of time to make it.

 

[Lessen]

the spool is only ten bucks why not do it the right way???

It's an Olds97_lss thing.

You wouldn't understand.

 

[rckid91]

lol yeah I've learned that jimmy rigging comes back to bite so i like to do things with the right parts

 

[olds97_lss]

lol yeah I've learned that jimmy rigging comes back to bite so i like to do things with the right parts

In a lot of cases, I'd agree with you on that.

Also in quite a few instances... rigging something proves better than anything you can buy.

In the case of the diff, I used JB because the diff was internally toast, but the ring/pinion were still ok. It held up to a lot of abuse with JB in it.

 

[Lessen]

I can agree with olds too actually...sometimes a quick rig turns out to be the best fix. I used to have problem with ball cups popping off of my carb on my buggy. I'm sure I couldn't experimented with different ball cup ends but I just slid a piece of fuel tuping over the end and over the carb ball. It never pops off now. Been like that for a couple years now.

 

[gravdigr]

Or, you can clean out the diff cup of all oil and clean off the spider gears, then jam some silly putty in there and put it back together. I cleaned one out and filled it with JB-Weld once... but the spider gears where pretty much toast and the cup was really worn, so I didn't care.

Reminds me of what the 1:1 off road truck world calls a lincoln locker. It was named after the lincoln welder. Basically it was a poor mans spool, you just opened the diff and welded the spider gears solid. I know 1 rock crawler that had run this setup for years and it cost nothing.