I just installed a Richmond Gear Powertrax No-slip unit in my D30 on Tuesday; however, something's not quite right.
For starters, during installation the cross pin did not want to go in the carrier easily. Being an idiot, I gave it a couple of love taps with a hammer to seat it.
After putting everything together, I could not get the locker to release while turning the tires by hand. Yeah, yeah, yeah I can hear "Well why didn't you take it back apart?" When you get in a hurry bad things happen. Working against time constraints in a borrowed shop contributed to "It's late, get it back together and out of here-itis."
Now when I drive it, at low speeds when turning you can feel the front end move to the outside of the turn then spring back when the locker makes a really loud pop and does this repeatedly throughout the turn. Yet driving on the highway and changing lanes it acts fine.
I talked to a tech at Richmond who was moderately helpful but his main opinion was, "That's just the nature of our product."
I'm leaning towards one of the active spacers (the internally splined collar with the indexing tab on it) was defective (some initial alignment issues just test assembling it on the bench, one spacer didn't want to line up for the cross pin)or a spring came loose and got wedged in somewhere it shouldn't have.
A replacement active spacer set and spring kit are on the way just in case.
Putting one in my 8.25 was easy and you wouldn't even know it's there unless you give it too much throttle while turning on pavement. But, for some reason this front unit just wants to be a royal pain.
I read through quite a few posts before purchasing this and spent last night trying to find out what's wrong here. So what do you guys think? I would like to hear any other ideas or something I may have missed before I tear into this thing again. Removing everything but the pinion is not fun.
For starters, during installation the cross pin did not want to go in the carrier easily. Being an idiot, I gave it a couple of love taps with a hammer to seat it.
After putting everything together, I could not get the locker to release while turning the tires by hand. Yeah, yeah, yeah I can hear "Well why didn't you take it back apart?" When you get in a hurry bad things happen. Working against time constraints in a borrowed shop contributed to "It's late, get it back together and out of here-itis."
Now when I drive it, at low speeds when turning you can feel the front end move to the outside of the turn then spring back when the locker makes a really loud pop and does this repeatedly throughout the turn. Yet driving on the highway and changing lanes it acts fine.
I talked to a tech at Richmond who was moderately helpful but his main opinion was, "That's just the nature of our product."
I'm leaning towards one of the active spacers (the internally splined collar with the indexing tab on it) was defective (some initial alignment issues just test assembling it on the bench, one spacer didn't want to line up for the cross pin)or a spring came loose and got wedged in somewhere it shouldn't have.
A replacement active spacer set and spring kit are on the way just in case.
Putting one in my 8.25 was easy and you wouldn't even know it's there unless you give it too much throttle while turning on pavement. But, for some reason this front unit just wants to be a royal pain.
I read through quite a few posts before purchasing this and spent last night trying to find out what's wrong here. So what do you guys think? I would like to hear any other ideas or something I may have missed before I tear into this thing again. Removing everything but the pinion is not fun.