8.8 Pinion Guard - Pirate4x4.Com : 4x4 and Off-Road Forum

Tufrthnails · 03-18-2012, 06:49 AM

All right I have searched high and low and just can't come up with anything on 8.8 pinion guards. Has anyone here built one. I have been told welding on cast just won't hold up, but there has to be an answer. I have an 8.8 in the rear of my Jeep and yes in hind sight I probably should have just went ahead and done a 9", but I did the 8.8 swap and until I completely grenade it. I am stuck with it. And I really cannot complain to much I have never broken anything in it but a cross shaft. But I tend to get hung on rocks on the lower lip of it.

Tufrthnails · 03-18-2012, 09:10 AM

29 views and no post. You can't tell me that no one has run into this before and found and answer for it.....

oldjeep · 03-18-2012, 11:21 AM

If you are getting hung up on the lip then that has nothing to do with a pinion guard. You can easly weld a piece of steel as a ramp or grind the lip down. Anyone who says you can't weld to a cast steel diff housing has never tried it.

Tufrthnails · 03-18-2012, 01:21 PM

Yeah I was kinda trying to kill 2 birds with one stone. What would you use? I have so 1/4" plate I could cut up and make a ramp/ skid. I am kind of invisioning 3 fins on the bottom of the diff then weld the plate onto them kinda like a boat bottom.

oldjeep · 03-18-2012, 01:34 PM

Piece of plate would be more than enough, no reason to get fancy with it. If you search a bit there are a couple threads with pictures.

/forum/jeep-non-hardcore/1030855-plating-bottom-ford-8-8-a.html

jeepsterjoe · 03-18-2012, 05:54 PM

i did a few pieces of round rod, big at lip and smaller toward pinion, then welded , hit it alot and hard, no issues, it just lets the rocks slide better

Tufrthnails · 03-19-2012, 03:17 AM

Thanks guys this is the info I was looking for.

03-18-2012, 11:21 AM	#3 (permalink)
oldjeep Pirate4x4 Addict! Join Date: Mar 2001 Member # 3511 Location: MN Posts: 5,387	If you are getting hung up on the lip then that has nothing to do with a pinion guard. You can easly weld a piece of steel as a ramp or grind the lip down. Anyone who says you can't weld to a cast steel diff housing has never tried it. __________________ Chuck P The clowns'? Oh, yeah, the clowns. We fight them too — entire armies, spilling out of Volkswagons. We do our best to fight them off, but they keep sending 'em in! www.oldjeep.com

03-18-2012, 01:34 PM	#5 (permalink)
oldjeep Pirate4x4 Addict! Join Date: Mar 2001 Member # 3511 Location: MN Posts: 5,387	Piece of plate would be more than enough, no reason to get fancy with it. If you search a bit there are a couple threads with pictures. /forum/jeep-non-hardcore/1030855-plating-bottom-ford-8-8-a.html __________________ Chuck P The clowns'? Oh, yeah, the clowns. We fight them too — entire armies, spilling out of Volkswagons. We do our best to fight them off, but they keep sending 'em in! www.oldjeep.com Last edited by oldjeep; 03-18-2012 at 01:37 PM.

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03-18-2012, 05:54 PM	#6 (permalink)
jeepsterjoe Registered User Join Date: Dec 2011 Member # 205360 Location: Brattleboro Vermont Posts: 85	i did a few pieces of round rod, big at lip and smaller toward pinion, then welded , hit it alot and hard, no issues, it just lets the rocks slide better