Eric's Supercharged Shit-box

Here is your D44

 

Eric loves the D44

 

FIFY

 

Just a small update...

When I rebuilt my front (bearings and seals) I had to modify my spindle bushing since it wasn't allowing the axle shaft to seat against the seal in the wheel hub allowing for shit to get inside, thus causing my bearing failures... AND hub failures...



I cut the lip off allowing for the spindle to seat further and that was my issue... Yes I greased the shit out of it afterwards.



Here is the bearing race... all looked just like it.



Hurr durr



Shiny new hub



SO anyway... I ordered a new carrier bearing to finally fix my fucking failures and my oblong shaped shit CB.



Finished installing my new WRX seats that 45acp sold me... Thanks to Mark for helping me on the install.



Bearing and whats in the box? Hmm... new front gears, master install kit, and a spool because my shit blew up last time out.

 

Last weekend I headed down to Jon's place... up? Since Wisconsin is north oh fucking nvm


Here he is grinding something



I came down ...or up...either way I came..yeah....... So I went to Jon's to get my front gears put in and get my transfercase crossmember fixed since on full droop my DS was hitting the x member. Also I wanted to install my carrier bearing and we had to make a new mount for that.

During that time we ran into a few issues; the gear set I received was a standard rotation and not the reverse like I ordered... I called ECGS and they overnight, saturday delivery shipped my gearset out... Stephen from ECGS is to thank for his awesome customer service. He shipped it out 6:28 pm friday and it arrived 10:27 am saturday morning... OUTSTANDING. All on his dime (of $275) - for a $150 part... Thanks again, Stephen.

Other issues, I found 2 bad u-joints one on the front DS and one on the tcase side of the rear DS... we replaced both of them

Ok, more pictures enough fucking talking



Optimal location for full hydro...



New winch!!



New crossmember reinforcement / notching to fit the DS



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CB mount made and bolted



A plate we are welding in over the old bracket to help reinforce it and to provide a mounting surface.





Welding was difficult as it was windy and very tight space... and RIGHT next to the gas tank







Thanks Jon for helping me all weekend.

 

Maybe I missed it. Part number on the center support bearing? Looks sturdy! Do you notice any more vibes since installing it?

 

Yeah his teeth rattle now lol.

 

Guess I'll stick with the 1 piece rear driveshaft idea

 

Dude, let me know what you think of that Badlands winch. I've seriously been considering the 9000. I know they're slow but from what I've heard from people using them they've been very reliable.

 

I have put three on a buddy of mine's car haulers. He hauls 3-5 cars for scrap everyday. He hasn't had an issue yet to date. And he is not easy on them either, bird nests the hell outa them all the time. I was waiting for my smittybuilt to crap out so I could get a Badlands 12k, but it wont die either.

 

any complaints about the speed? Anyone switch out the wire rope for synthetic on these?

 

They are slow, but as long as you know that going into things you aren't let down. They work and for the $500+ savings I would never touch a warn unless speed is your thing, as well as replacing solenoid packs every year.

And yeah synthetic works just fine on them.

 

And they free spool 10x better than the Smittybilt.

 

Yeah one piece is still by far the best idea... Fuck these stupid two piece shafts I tell ya. I don't have a crawl box or I would have a 1 piece. It's just too long otherwise for my shitty driving.

Oh and since both rear driveshafts are bent and not balanced anymore the vibes are INSANE.. I mean I have solid motor mounts which don't help AT ALL, but without that rear DS being balanced and straight the vibes are ungodly over 30 MPH haha.

Here is the bearing thread where I got the idea It's real similar to -Matt- just different make of bearing. http://www.mcmaster.com/#2722t25/=rf6yh1

I would just go with the 12000, it's $50 more I think? Wait for when it's on sale for $300, or when a coupon comes out! Either way bigger can be better in this application! (It's not much bigger than my old Warn M8000)

Haven't used it much but it looks real nice, pretty decently quiet and it free spools SMOOTHLY

^^^^^

 

Also interested in updates on the badlands. Going to be looking for a winch in the coming months and had it down to a smittybuilt xrc10000 comp but after seeing a few of these I've considered the badlands as well.

 

Harbor freight in my area is having a 25% off sale on easter sunday. Might be worth looking into in you guys' areas with all this talk about the badlands winches

 

Think this would make a good suck down winch for the rear?

 

No real update here... but... Diesel noise is gone!!!!!

Apparently I can't fucking install an EGR gasket or a header gasket, because they were both leaking FML... well it's quiet as a mouse now!!!

 

Still waiting for the supercharger install.

 

Well I finally able to use the winch. It is slow, but it worked great! Did exactly what it needed no problems. I'd recommend it, if you don't mind it's speed it's great. Free spools smoothly too.

Me too

Anywho, I was able to get some major wheeling done over Labor day! Not many problems really. I had the steering shaft slide out of my u-joint at my orbital... Mark had the same issue on his truck... Not sure what happened. Probably just excessive vibration and didn't check it ever for tightness; easy fix.



My biggest problem I have is that I BENT a leaf spring on the driver front leaf... Not really sure how, but pretty sure the leaf is trashed... Not too happy about it and hopefully Davez offroad can help me out on this. I beat the shit out of my Marlin Crawler springs and never had any issues with them bending like this.



Front diff has a slight leak



Got some new body damage...Finally dented my passenger side.... I think I can pop it out though. I gotta keep one side clean!!!



Anywho, pictures.