The never ending project

[cruzila]

Not yet they are very new still. though they look a couple years old. I am getting ready to put on the snowshoes (38 15.5 Gumbo Mudders) so I will address it then. I will take em off and fix em. It seems everything I have had someone else do to my rig has not worked good until I fixed it

[Doc]

How did they break?

[cruzila]

Sorry Doc, I guess I never saw the last post

The new thing with the cruiser is the t-case has a crack in it. Marlin said when the front driveline binds it will crack the front of the case. I still need to look close at the angles etc. Now I am thinking that the revolvers had something to do with it. More to come.

[cruzila]

OK, I figured out how the t-case broke. Any one that guesses correctly. Gets 10 free posts. BTW I CAN give you 10 posts, so if you are close to the next level............

Hints, it was done on Rubicon. No it was not the revolvers.

[hawaii500_1999]

uuuuuummmmmmmmmmm
you smashed it into a rock and the oil leaked out then when you were cruising your way around it went BAM!!!

[cruzila]

another hint

[blazerboy]

Im going to guess that you ran over all those guys in the picture and to get you back  they beat the h3ll out of your tcase to teach you a lesson. :.order:

[Paul_Elbisser]

While  testing the road block you stood the truck on that rock with the driveshaft?

[cruzila]

No contact at all

[blazerboy]

Ok. Some how you had way too much angle on the front and the case couldnt take the strain of a drive line pulling down on it?

[cruzila]

Ahh yes, that is what I thought at first. I also thought I had checked the angles etc. I rechecked and at full stuff the front drivline has an inch left. At full droop it does not bind. But, when BOTH go down it can bottom out last hint hehe

[mr4x42u]

:idea:bottomed out the yolk giving the d-line a craking shock to the t-case?My other guess and I don't know how yours is set up but the front d-line has a cv in it and it bottmed out on a cross member or skid plate?
c'mon,,c'mon awnsers,,,awnsers!!!

[cruzila]

Bingo, You got it :up: We were winching the big rocks that fell in on the trail at the top of Walker Hill. As near as I can tell when pulling real hard, the front axle wraps and the pinion goes up. It also pulls the body/chassis forward. And that is what cracked it. I did not notice it until I went down a 60 degree incline near Little Sluice. Then all the oil on the skid plate ran out on the ground :cry: :sob:

ps I gave ya 20

[mr4x42u]

Well hope it didnt ruin your trip! :oI have seen guys jump there rigs and do stff like that or even after a lift make the drive line too long..OUCH!!well is yours fixed now? :~~:

[cruzila]

Working on it now. Putting a new clutch in too. Marlin gave me a smokin' deal 8) Took out the innards and spun one bearing from running it dry :sob:

[mr4x42u]

yea, oil can be a problem .
Going to get a longer yolk while your at it or shorten the d-shaft? :.order:

[cruzila]

I will later, I keep trying to win that Highangle line. For now, I am making some blocks to support under the bumpstops for winching :up:

[cruzila]

Holy crap. Look at this nose cone bolt off the t-case

[mr4x42u]

bet that was a pregnant dog to get out!That kind of stuff does wonders on the threads.. :idea:maybe a new kind of thread lock?

[mr4x42u]

hey?oops did I say a bad word,and did the forum just add to my thred?what gives? :talking:

[cruzila]

There is a censor.

damn
thingy
girl thingy

do not work, Marlins orders  :.order: :.order:

[mr4x42u]

::)Yea,,some people take offence pretty easy..I was just surprised is all... :talking:

[cruzila]

Well, here we go again.............


edit: It was not the SM420 it was the small end of the counter shaft on the 4.7 gears. Marlin said I was the third one to do that.


I broke an SM420!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Must be the 37"s

I am now thinking about a stock cruiser 4speed with the 4.7s  that will put me at 158:1  :cry: :cry: :cry:instead of 314:1

[mr4x42u]

maybe you should stop the 6g rpm nutreal drops in etra 4low while in the rocks!
 = =

[cruzila]

Uhh..only 3Gs and here's to you .......no rocks

[mr4x42u]

Is that wine?

[cruzila]

Someone brought a bottle of champagne so we could toast the new year :up: Followed by a 2 hours snowball fight

[mr4x42u]

well its no wonder then why you gots broken gears.

[cruzila]

OK taking outr the SM420 Toybox FJ40 t-case and putting in a FJ60 4 speed and split case.






with this

[79coyotefrg]

hey cruzilla,  is that full float your work??  or the front range deal??  i want a full float like that, stock front end parts :.order: :.order: :.order: