where can i get a differential drop kit from?

[lbishop]

Finally getting the last of my suspension lift together and tryin to track down a front differential drop kit.

Is this all I need or is there something else I need?
https://ruggedrocksoffroad.com/fron...p-4159.html?osCsid=sm42jinffjoj2vis29g0l19md7

 

[J Everett]

How much lift are you doing? Usually a drop bracket comes with a lift kit, but drop bracket lifts are usually on the order of 5" or more.

 

[lbishop]

3 inch suspension lift on top of my body lift. I been looking around and seeing trucks running slr diff drops to reduce stress on the cv's. and was like well if im gonna lift, I wanna do it right and reduce as much stress as possible you know.

Heres the thread i been looking at
http://www.clubxterra.org/forums/showthread.php?t=29964

 

[lbishop]

well looks like I hit a roadblock on my search. Apparently rugged rocks, energy suspension, and 4x4parts are only selling the bushings. You still need a machine shop to make the sleeves. Or go through slr which is supposedly up and making stuff again. Some people have installed just the bushings but were talking about having play due to no sleeves

a little more digging shows that this a pain to install and not real good for those play in the mud. Fail lol

 

[rokdaddy]

well looks like I hit a roadblock on my search. Apparently rugged rocks, energy suspension, and 4x4parts are only selling the bushings. You still need a machine shop to make the sleeves. Or go through slr which is supposedly up and making stuff again. Some people have installed just the bushings but were talking about having play due to no sleeves

a little more digging shows that this a pain to install and not real good for those play in the mud. Fail lol

You can probably re-use the sleeves. They may need to be cut/pressed/ripped out of the old bushings but they're free...


-Rok

 

[yellowx16]

slr does still make products, i have his contact i can PM you if you want. I was in contact with him about some UCA's a while ago, not sure if he still makes the diff drop kit though.

 

[TKDx00]

I got these awhile back...
Diff Drop

 

[Mirage]

The sleeves would be very simple to have a machine shop turn on a lathe, just take the bushing and the thru bolt to them to go off of. Pretty sure the stock sleeves wouldn't work, IIRC they have little nubs and the stock bushing is molded around them. Install wasn't that hard, hardest part was getting the front bushing oriented in the right direction. Not sure what mud has to do with them, the amount the diff hangs below the crossmember is minimal, hasn't affected me one bit. I think they are definitely worth the time and effort.

 

[rokdaddy]

I'll bet that one could make a few cuts in the bushing and break away the urethane while following up with a coarse grit sanding disc to clean up any nubs or left over elastomer on the sleeves. Machine shops around here would probably charge around $100 to do a small job like that; well worth the coin for some. The ones that I bought from AC measure 1" outside diameter and .550" inside if anyone's curious.

-Rok

 

[rokdaddy]

Or shell out the whopping 25$ + shipping to order a set from AC (thanks TKD).

 

[granitex]

You can not use the OEM sleeves at all, any good steel shop should have the tubing on hand to make the sleeves, I will look around for the specs on them, mine were " made " in about ten min at the shop. They are just tubing that is the right ID and OD, cut to the right length. They even deburred the inside and polished the outer edges for free. I think that I paid like $15.00 for it all.

 

[TKDx00]

I'm all for giving my business to the little/local guy...but sometimes it just saves time and headaches to buy something already available.

 

[J Everett]

I'm all for giving my business to the little/local guy...but sometimes it just saves time and headaches to buy something already available.

Wiser words are rarely spoken in automotive forums.

 

[lbishop]

thanks for the heads up on 4x4parts i just assumed they sold only the bushings and I would still need the sleeves


at the end of that thread, I linked to from club x, theres a post that states this:

"Just a side note; I leave the c-clip off the axle inside the hub. This allows the axle to slide a bit inside the hub assembly at full droop instead of pulling on it.
I avoid the mud and water most of the time and repack my wheel bearings around once a year otherwise you should not do it because it unseals the back side of your hub assembly.

can somebody tell me if this is gonna be a bad mod for me if I play in the mud? From the sound of it, I could be causing more problems than i'm avoiding

 

[granitex]

Just get good at re-packing your bearings and you will be fine. I can do mine in about 1/2 hour per side, and that is clean up and inspection of everything else down there. Like rod ends, shaft boots, shocks, pads, all of it.

 

[Silver dude]

I'd keep the clips in you need them to maintain a lip seal on the inner axle seal. Diff drop is a nice mod. Especially if you are running a set of ucas. Stops the binding at full droop. Should get more miles from your cv's as well as the angle is less so the wear is less. I've had mine installed for a long time. No complaints.

Ben