Helga, My 88 B2 Build...

[Hahnsb2]

Setting up gears for my first time, both exciting and frustrating at the same time.
Here's what I've come up with so far...
Drive

Coast

 

[84projectFORD]

kinda looks like the ring gear needs to be set in closer to the pinion. what is yor backlash on the ring gear?

 

[Hahnsb2]

Still workin on the 8.8...
I do have something else on the way which should slow things down a bit
Too much to do so little time

 

[Hahnsb2]

Damn, should have finished my 8.8 faster... My lock-right finally blew up tonight, I got a bit to clutch dump happy when some slow bitch in front of me took forever to take a turn, it went "BAM, click, click, click". So I pulled in to Fred Meyer (where I was going anyways), came back out, wouldn't even move, pulled the rear driveshaft and drove home on the front axle, that's pretty damn interesting with a locker up there. The lock-right and been popping and banging and slipping for about a month now, the 7.5 was never designed to be behind a 4.0 therefore the lock-right wasn't either, I had been pretty hard on it as far as lighting tires up and so forth. So I'm driving the Taurus right now, I'll pull the cover off and post carnage pics tomorrow.

 

[240cubes]

 

[Sunk]

I was wondering what you've been up to... I've done a bit of driving on just the front shaft, like 80 miles home on the highway one night after snowboarding and to school a couple days the next week till I could grab another shaft. That was weird enough, I bet it was real fun with a locker.

Did you get that 8.8 done?

 

[Hahnsb2]

I was wondering what you've been up to... I've done a bit of driving on just the front shaft, like 80 miles home on the highway one night after snowboarding and to school a couple days the next week till I could grab another shaft. That was weird enough, I bet it was real fun with a locker.

Did you get that 8.8 done?

Yeah I tried doing only one hub locked, pulled super hard and as soon as I would let off it would shoot into the next lane because of how much I had to compensate, so I stopped and locked both, sharp turns was a bit harder but at least could stay in my lane.
8.8 isn't done, I need to lathe down a piece of the crush sleeve eliminator down .090 at work and I finally ordered the perches, I welded the tubes up, just need to install the gears once I lathe that down and weld the perches home.

 

[Sunk]

Sweet, sounds good man. I'm on winter break now and totally itching to get at my truck..

 

[fordwheelinman]

carnage pics?

 

[Hahnsb2]

Well, as soon as I popped the cover I heard chunks falling into the pan, the cross-pin went chernobyl!!! It's amazing the large chunk did not fly out while I drove 10 miles home, seeing how it was partially out and I was able to remove it by hand. And of course it's supposed to snow this weekend, sweet, no 4wd to drive, **** me.
As promised, pics.

What awaited me when I opened the cover, that's a piece of crosspin laying in the housing.

Chunk of crosspin sticking out of it's hole.

Fucking crosspin bolt without a scratch on it, and most people can't even remove them without breaking them!

Chewed up pinion teeth.

Pieces
This was the lock-right cross-pin to boot! I imagine I would have broken a notched one MUCH sooner!

 

[04 EDGE]

man that sucks

my loc-rite has been in use for over 3 years. hard use.

still on my stock cross pin.

 

[Totalled]

Throw a stock pin in and run it... it doesn't have to last long anyway...

 

[Hahnsb2]

I thought about that but the pins are wasted too...

 

[97BlackBetty]

I think a pin pack is like $16. Or at least from Aussie, hell I dont know.

 

[danger88ranger]

Nice job! So when is that 8.8 going to be done?