step by step 93 ranger sas

[milje]

He stripped the R&P on his also.

Huh, I never read about that. I gotta spend more time in the "cool" forums

 

[THE WHITE RHINO]

Could this have been the result from a poor set-up from someone trying to do their own gears, or someone just getting the set-up wrong?

no everything was installed by a ase certified extremely knowledgeable jeep fabricator/mechanic who has been doing this for longer than most of us

 

[Roger]

I've seen a couple D30 equipped RBVs here inn Utah. And I wheel a D30 under my Grand Cherokee. Do I think about it when wheeling? Yes. Along with everything else I could break too. So far, the only D30 I've seen break was an extreme situation. A cherokee was pulling a TJ up a hill with a winch (TJ had some rear control arm issues, right rear tires wound up under the passenger seat area!), and then decided to speed things up by reversing, Fairly new 4.10s grenaded...

 

[4x4junkie]

Huh, I never read about that. I gotta spend more time in the "cool" forums

Yeah, it was some months ago he mentioned it (got lost in the old DB though).

 

[Hahnsb2]

Im pretty sure 1BadB2 snapped the pinion, not stripped the gears... Either way it was a gear-set failure... Nothing wrong with a D30, if I ever go SAS I would run a D30 for the same reasons you mentioned, and I dont plan to go over 33 or 34" tires anyways...

 

[vrruumm]

Got the d30 cleaned up externally today, tore it down, checked internal components and painted. Looks perfect inside, good centered pattern, 7 thou backlash, bearings and seals look good as far as i can see, and the open spider gears are in good condition. The axle u-joints looked and felt good, pulled them apart anyway to grease them, and found powdered bearing desease. The rusty kind. Ordered up some new "heavy duty" auto parts store brand u-joints.

I bought some 1/4 wall 1 1/2 square tube for the radius arms and some .120 wall 1 1/4 round tube for my drag link, track bar and crossover steer bar this morning.

I would like to build a cross over type steering, but I guess I'll have to cut of the sway bar mounts and steer stabilizer mounts to make clearance. I would have liked to have kept them so I could build a disconnectable sway bar easily and use the factory steer stabilizer. oh well.... Maybe I'll just bend the crossover around the mounts.

 

[vrruumm]

Can someone please help me figure out how to post pictures? Ive loaded the pics to my hard drive and cant figure out how to load them onto my posts. Thanks

 

[4x4junkie]

Can someone please help me figure out how to post pictures? Ive loaded the pics to my hard drive and cant figure out how to load them onto my posts. Thanks

You can upgrade your TRS account and then upload them directly to your post (putting them right here on the TRS server).



Or you could instead use an outside site like www.photobucket.com or www.imageshack.com. You can upload your pics there, and then link them to your posts using the forum IMG tags (they can't be on your own hard drive, they have to be on a web server in order to be able to link to them).

 

[Jim Oaks]

Can someone please help me figure out how to post pictures? Ive loaded the pics to my hard drive and cant figure out how to load them onto my posts. Thanks

Go to the RBV Photo Galleries forum link and submit your pics there. It will give you the code to place in other parts of the forums to show your pics.

 

[Jim Oaks]

I'd like to follow this swap and look forward to seeing the progress.

 

[THE WHITE RHINO]

photobucket.com is free

 

[vrruumm]

 

[vrruumm]

Those pics turned out huge.

I got the u-joints installed, ordered a bunch of 3/4 hiem joints from summit and I'm going to have to order a few more because I under ordered.. Not sure what to use for springs and shocks still. I'm trying to clear 35" bfg's.

Looks like I'm going to have to cut alot of the factory jeep bracketry off to make a crossover steering. Wont be too involved to make a new track bar and steer stabilizer mount.

 

[Mekcanix]

this looks very interesting and the fact is i have been stockpiling D30 goodies for about 9 months now as I prepare to do this. I begin to wonder if I am going about this the wrong way . I had been planning leaf springs as my suspension as i have leafs from a lifted toyota. But now I am having second thoughts I will be watching and taking notes to make my swap easier

 

[Sasquatch_Ryda]

Looks like I'm going to have to cut alot of the factory jeep bracketry off to make a crossover steering. Wont be too involved to make a new track bar and steer stabilizer mount.

There is also the idea of building a crossover steering bracket like this:

http://www.jb4x4.com/products.htm