Northern Virginia Roll Call

Its listed at $700 and is close enough to pick up. Contacting the seller now.

 

Low ball them. Offer like $550 and you’ll come get it right now.

 

I'm like stressed out amped up on hold right now

 

Lol I'm exicted so I can only imagine how it feels for you.

 

Haha! Since you’re ballin now, you could always just regear and get the arb locker. After core, comes to around $1500 total. Obviously twice as much, but then you have a rear end with a known history. No telling what that ring and pinion look like in that axle without taking it apart.

Edit: or use that to your advantage. Low ball him and be like “I’ll only give you $400 since I have no idea what condition the r&p is in or the bearings”

 

They were listing just the carrier. They have a full axle but want $1600. NOPE.

 

Ah damn, that sucks. HELL NOPE.

 

So why did you say we cant do an air locker install ourselves?

 

Damnit.

 

Because you need to set backlash and need specialized tools and it’s a very precise process. And you may need to set pinion preload but I’m unsure about that since we wouldn’t actually change the pinion.

Basically it requires precision and specialized tools and is easy to fuck up.

 

Fair enough. But a complete axle is straight bolt up, correct?

 

Yeah. Just need to wire in the locker.

My reasoning for not swapping in a whole axle is because you don’t know he history/condition of it. The teeth on the gears could be chipped, locker itself could have problems, bad wheel bearings, brakes, etc.

Was just too much money for me to gamble. I would have gotten one if I could find it for $300 or less.

 

I NEED A LOCKER!

 

Just weld your spider gears together

 

Dude, I take corners WAY TOO FAST for that or a lunchbox locker

 

was totally kidding. Even I wouldnt weld spider gears together and my truck isn’t a DD. You just need to pony up and regear/get an arb locker/buy a compressor to engage it

 

GOOD ONE. Why do I need to regear?

 

Morning all...

 

You dont, but there’s no price difference To change gear ratios if you were to go through ECGS. So might as well go 4.10 and get some pep back