After some work, this is the pattern I have now with resistance applied to the ring gear. Does it look acceptable to you experts? D30, 4.88s.

Drive side:

http://wardlink.com/images/Jeep/D30%20rebuild/drive1.jpg

http://wardlink.com/images/Jeep/D30%20rebuild/drive2.jpg

Coast side:

http://wardlink.com/images/Jeep/D30%20rebuild/coast1.jpg


-Eli

In! Thanks for the chance!

Ttt.

Ttt.

Thanks for the TT. I tightened up the backlash ever so slightly and called it good. She will be rolling tomorrow. We will see how long this set of gears lasts. :shaking:

-Eli

It will never work with all that yellow paint on there...

the pattern looks fine. Run it.

If it's an RC30, I'de say you are pretty good.

If it's a standard 30, I think you may be too close to the edge of the tooth.

Remember, on a standard 30, your coast side is the drive side.

If it's an RC30, I'de say you are pretty good.

If it's a standard 30, I think you may be too close to the edge of the tooth.

Remember, on a standard 30, your coast side is the drive side.Thats why in his first pic it say drive side, he has it right

Thats why in his first pic it say drive side, he has it right

Oops, missed that. The people I have been around, when someone says "drive side" they mean drive side, not the drive side relative to the application. :laughing:

Thanks guys.

-Eli

The pattern looks ok but that locker will spell sudden doom. I'm not busting your balls here but I did that w/ 4.88's and it was the worst mistake I could have ever made. Countless U joints exploded, ring and pinion twice as well as a shaft. Leave it open. :)

The pattern looks ok but that locker will spell sudden doom. I'm not busting your balls here but I did that w/ 4.88's and it was the worst mistake I could have ever made. Countless U joints exploded, ring and pinion twice as well as a shaft. Leave it open. :)

:shaking:

The pattern looks ok but that locker will spell sudden doom. I'm not busting your balls here but I did that w/ 4.88's and it was the worst mistake I could have ever made. Countless U joints exploded, ring and pinion twice as well as a shaft. Leave it open. :)

That locker has been in there for 60K miles with 4.88s. I just now broke the origional u-joints and messed up the r&P but that was from abuse trying to recover a vehicle out of the deep snow. It now has Alloy USA shafts and u-joints in it. It survived just fine for a long time through wheeling like this though.

http://wardlink.com/images/Jeep/disney0407/elililblue3.JPG

The D30 is far from a great axle but It can last if you know how to treat it and what to watch for.

-Eli

alittle off topic, but that picture is Badass! :)

I agree. New wallpaper for me, and I hought you sold that jeep eli.

alittle off topic, but that picture is Badass! :)

I bet it would go great on cake. :D

I agree. New wallpaper for me, and I hought you sold that jeep eli.

It was for sale for a little bit because I was looking into a JK. Wife and I decided to quit our jobs and move across the country so I held on to it. ;)

-Eli

thanks for the wallpaper!

and that pattern looks acceptable to me

Here are a couple more... And yes it did crawl right up that 6' waterfall at the end. With good tire placement and a good spotter, the run looks a lot harder than it is. ;)

http://wardlink.com/images/Jeep/disney0407/elililblue.jpg

http://wardlink.com/images/Jeep/disney0407/elililblue1.JPG

http://wardlink.com/images/Jeep/disney0407/elililblue2.jpg

http://wardlink.com/images/Jeep/disney0407/elililblue4.jpg

-Eli

Where are you from?? That looks like grand lake

It is. Little Blue.

I spent 5 years in Wichita, KS. I am now in Iron Mountain, MI.

-Eli