Dana 35 access cover?

[mkpecor]

it is cool,never seen that be for,i wounder how those bird shit welds held up on the diff cage?

 

[kunar]

ps ill get a pic of the ring and parts up asap.

please!

 

[mkpecor]

im not sayin the cage sucks, its bad ass the welds could be better.....buddy

 

[gnardoom]

thats too much weight to add and alot of work just to look at your gears, I geuss he got some needed welding practice out of it though

 

[AllanD]

I wouldn't do it quite that way....

Instead of using hte piece cut out f the beam I'd simply
chop up another beam....

then again I live in a "material rich" condition...

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[sharpertouch]

ok so this is the ring for the cover made of 3/8" steel.

 

[sharpertouch]

diff cover installed1

ill have picks up tomorrow of the build and install... she looks really awesome...

sorry this took so long but i didnt get the diff cover back from the mill lathe till yesterday...

 

[sharpertouch]

completed

 

[Hahnsb2]

Awesome

 

[97BlackBetty]

You know that does look pretty good. I think the blue helps out as well. Nice work. Hopefully it serves the part you are hoping it will.

 

[CheapThrillB2]

To fill, all you need to do is remove the fill plug and dump fluid in there...

To change, buy a $2.00 siphon pump, suck the old oil out thru the fill plug and dump the new stuff in.

I don't see any benefit to doing this, and there is a great risk of weakening the beam. You wouldn't be able to so any work in there by only removing the cover, and filling/changing is already easy.

Your next project IMHO should be to fix the leak in your diff so you don't need to add fluid all the time.

The IFS (torision bar set-up) the diff cover has the fill plug and its about impossible to get the tube for the siphon pump intothe housing to get at the fluid. As well as the diff cover itself is abouti mpossible to remove short of doing ALOT of tear down


Having the cover would allow easy access to the c-clip holding the right shaft. wouldn't need to do a spring mod to the shafts.

 

[Jim Oaks]

You people suck.




Just kidding.






I mentioned this to Joel a couple of years ago and have been sitting on the idea.

I wanted to do this to TRS-2 later this year and add the 44 knuckle swap.

Since you guys are doing this, I'll go ahead and tell you my ideas......

I had two ideas on how to do this:

1 - Make a thick ring (like say 3/4 or 1-inch) that has two sets of holes in it. One set that would allow bolts to recess in to the ring and hold the ring and diff housing to the beam sandwiching the beam between them. The second set of holes would be tapped to allow a cover to bolt to the ring.

2- I like this idea better, a thick ring like above, but it would be welded to the beam to strengthen the beam from the section being cut out. Again, two sets of holes, but the holes for the diff housing would go through so that the original bolts would be bolting the diff housing to the beam, but be recessed in to the ring. Again, a second set of holes would be tapped to allow the cover to bolt on.

I don't like the idea of a cover that uses the same bolts to hold the diff housing to the beam.

I think the ring should add some strength back in to the beam since your cutting a section out.

Sharpertouch, I think you should take the design a step further. I wouldn't want to worry about the diff housing coming loose when I take the cover off. I would want to be able to take the cover off and clean all the crap out without worrying about the sealant holding the diff housing to the beam.


I tried the whole pump idea to get the diff fluid out from the fill hole. This idea sucks. It took forever and is a pain in the ass. I doubt I even got all the fluid out. Have you ever looked at the slime that get's in your diff from playing in muddy water? Yes, I have vent hoses but it still gets in some how.

 

[Totalled]

Well, that's cool and all with easier access to the E-clip.. but if you were considering this for merely easing the effort of fluid changes.. this was a whole lot less work:

 

[Sasquatch_Ryda]

I'd knock something like that off of my diff in a hurry. I tapped the bottom of the aluminum housing and put in a drain bolt, that way its protected by the beam itself.

 

[kunar]

people also grind/drill from the inside of the housing into the bottom most bolt hole to do the same thing. the bottom bolt that holds in the center section doubles as a drain.