Massive rear end noise solution

madmike1157 said:

Well,....That was a disaster! What ever any of you do, DO NOT try this method. Almost killed a guy, AND burned the place down at the same time.
After I get there this after noon, I call my pizza delivery guy to bring me the ring gear from my other friend's shop where it's been heating at 500 degrees since last night. He gets there w/ the thing and it has dropped to 385 degrees, We take the diff out of the cryo-vat and as soon as the ring gear touches the diff,.. the freakin' thing explodes into a bazillion pieces! My Dead head freezin' guy gets peppered by frozen diff shrapnel, and we have to take him to the hospital where they treat him for 27 different "inclusions" and chemical burns at the same time. When the diff exploded, It spooked me so bad, I dropped the ring gear and it melted a perfect 7.5" hole in their linoleum. By the time I get the pliers back on the gear, there is a blob of flaming linoleum attached to it. I drop the thing in their sterilized stainless sink and make a huge dent in the thing. The only reason I did'nt get the same treatment as my cryo guy was that I only touched the diff w/ the gear,and the angle of gear to diff contact must've acted like a "shaped charge" in the direction of my cryo guy. Now I gotta replace their stinkin SS sink, and who knows what they'll make me do about the hole in the floor

I tell ya, I'm through w/ trying to jerry rig this stupid thing, I'm just gonna buy a new 8.8 diff, a new set of 3.73 gears ( for an 8.8 this time ) new bearings, and a solid pinion crush sleeve, and pay to have it put together.

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madmike1157 said:

Yeah.well, my great imagination kept me awake as a kid, while I imagined that there was something (or someone) coming up the stairs to get me.



If you think I give up way too easy there, you should've seen me on my "real" rear end last weekend. The Katrina flood part and the mud in the gear oil was real. Because of that, the stock 3.55's were a little worse for the wear, but I decided to clean it out, put new bearings in, redo the clutches in the T lock, and then reassemble it. I dicked w/ the backlash for about two hours before I finally got it to ten thousands, then when It came time to check the contact pattern it was so far off I was going to have to start all over w/ a different pinion shim.
I yanked the diff out of the rear and THREW that junk out into the yard.
I DID order a new set of 3.73's (they got here today) and I DID pay my friend to assemble it, he has WAAAY more expertise w/ rearends, and WAAAY more patience than I do when it comes to them.

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madmike1157 said:

I'm just wondering how many (of the 177 people who looked) actually think I put sawdust in there in the first place

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