a good shave

[Elusive]

I had a HP dynatrac 60 that was shaved exactly like that...
I pushed the bottom plate into the ring gear.......twice.
I ened up cutting a relief in the plate for the ring gear and adding another small plate to cover the relief.
it looked like this:


I lost 1/2" of clearance where the extra plate is, but the shaved hp 60 5.38 gears are about $400 a set.. 2 sets in 2 months and something had to CHANGE!

[NAILER341]

thanks for the tip... but i think the way i have mine using the cattle guard diff cover to spread much of the pressure on that bottom plate will prevent it from bending in... at least i hope so!

[NAILER341]

here is a pic of it after dragging it across many rocks on the last run. "dead end wash" it seems to have held up just fine.

[Dukes69]

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[rick]

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No smoking in here.

[D4x4Fish]

No smoking in here.

OK!

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[Dukes69]

:Barf:

[NAILER341]

i cant believe the quality of these replies

[rick]

... Looks awesome man. Ever see anyone do one of these numbers to a 44? I guess the way the 44 housing is cast might not leave much clearance to the ring gear to begin with. I'll have to check that out the next time I'm in there. I hit the bottom of mine with a grinder a bit while I was laying under there hacking my exhaust apart, but memories of your experience promptly stopped me from taking much more than 1/8" off it...

[NAILER341]

... Looks awesome man. Ever see anyone do one of these numbers to a 44? I guess the way the 44 housing is cast might not leave much clearance to the ring gear to begin with. I'll have to check that out the next time I'm in there. I hit the bottom of mine with a grinder a bit while I was laying under there hacking my exhaust apart, but memories of your experience promptly stopped me from taking much more than 1/8" off it...

i havent seen many of these done at all.
after doing it, it is a relatively easy job.
i dont really know what you might gain doing it to a 44.. it depends really on how much of a lip you have to hang you up on stuff.

[blkTJ]

I serviced my diffs the other weekend, not much room for grinding back there IIRC.

If your gonna do it wait until you've got the cover off.

[rick]

I serviced my diffs the other weekend, not much room for grinding back there IIRC.

If your gonna do it wait until you've got the cover off.

Definitely. I seem to remember there only being about 3/8" or so to the ring gear and there is a step on the inside of the housing I think, so it probably wouldn't be worth the effort. There is a lip on the bottom of the casting that might be best dealt with by filling in rather than grinding off.

[Po; Riggity]

Very cool looking.. If I dont do the full width 60 in teh rear (which I probably will) then I'll definetly wanna shave the 8.8 Looks sweet man!
Scott