THANKS OBAMA - the story of why my ARB failed

[landshark]

I pulled the center section and found it just like this



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Oh boy... talk about lucky.. lucky i had an ARB that acted as a warning before the ring gear exploded... that was the only bolt that had backed out but they are all loose. Pulled three none had thread locker on em...

[EFI Guy]

I'm going with "you didn't build that" and "It's Bush's fault".

[Justin]

As a child of the 80s I prefer to blame Reagan.

Glad you caught that in time, could have been much wise.

[kchaser]

Wait what... An ARB failed. Not possible. Ask anyone that has paid extremely toooo much for one. They are the best ever (read ever in a valley girl voice).

[landshark]

Wait what... An ARB failed. Not possible. Ask anyone that has paid extremely toooo much for one. They are the best ever (read ever in a valley girl voice).

in this case it acted like an early warning... check out the bolt ;)

[casadejohnson]

I assume that to be in the 69....pretty much makes it LBJ's fault. Even if it was in the "city dweller" it would be Carter's fault.

[landshark]

So finally got my new bolts and started to really take a look at the old ones. Looks like the old bolts were just a hair too long and were bottoming out on the ring gear causing it to loosen up. The ring gear bolts also didn't have a "shoulder" to go through the carrier, and have the more desirable larger heads for more "gripping" force.

Evidently the ring gear bolts that were a bit too long came in a Yukon gear kit for this ring and pinion, I would have just assumed they would have worked so just a heads up out there to make sure what they send will work for your application, never assume!

I chased all the threads with a tap, then cleaned everything really good, red locktited and torqued the new bolts down.

Unfortunately I ordered the wrong seal housing (35 spline instead of 31) so waiting on the correct one - While I wait I have been checking the back lash and other little things in the mean time since I know the ring gear moved ever so slightly on the carrier...

[Rox Crusher]

Oh shitzu

I wonder if this could be the culprit to my intermitten gear noise I "think" I hear from mine.

[Kinder]

Rox, your ring gear bolts should be good, if my memory is right they were the "correct" bolts. Also red loctite was used and they came up to torque correctly.

[Justin]

I've come to believe that 90% of the noises I think I hear from my truck are not there.