Rear End Project 1.0

I've had my gears and tlok sitting in my room for a good month and a half now. I got the used tlok and 3.73 gears for my 7.5 rear end from Joey on the collective for $120 shipped. Basically a great deal. Especially since it probably cost over $20 to ship the 30 pound box.


Anyways, Travis and I started taking out the old differential and gears yesterday and part of today. In the middle of it all, we decided on taking off the whole rear axle assembly to make the installation on the new stuff easier. While we're at it we're gonna paint the whole assembly black and red. The axle housing is gonna be red, and the differential case is going to be black. I can't decide if i'm going to paint the differential cover red or black yet but i'll figure that part out later.


So far everything has gone okay. We haven't had any major problems yet. The worst so far was getting the pinion nut off. That thing was torqued on the pinion so tight, we had to put a 1/2 inch breaker bar on it and give it hell and then some. Minty stopped by both days and watched. He also was our errand boy.


I borrowed all the tools required for the job from Rob (trav's gear head stepdad). We also borrowed a dial caliper and a micrometer from geary at the high school. The only tools i've had to buy is a 1/2 drive to 3/8 drive socket converter and an 18mm socket.

The rear assembly is almost sanded down all the way. We're going to paint it tomorrow and set up the new gears. The gear set up is the hardest and most time consuming part, hopefully all goes well.