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El Sheetbox
- Thread starter Alboy97XJ
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- Location
- sacramento
Re: El Junky
let us know if it works. you also put that gold heat tape under the intake manifold too.
let us know if it works. you also put that gold heat tape under the intake manifold too.
El Junky
Nope... Figured 120 bucks is enough... Ha! I just went out and it seems fixed..... Jeep runs cooler on the highway and close to same on trail... Never sputtered or any signs of it
Nope... Figured 120 bucks is enough... Ha! I just went out and it seems fixed..... Jeep runs cooler on the highway and close to same on trail... Never sputtered or any signs of it
Mike1331
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Folsom, CA
Re: El Junky
Nice, i also took the cheap route to this and just raised the rear of the hood with extra shock sleeves i had laying around and coated under the intake mani with heat shield.
Not sure why amc didn't put coolant ports through the intake mani like all other motor company's do. Especially with one that touches the exhaust mani.
Nice, i also took the cheap route to this and just raised the rear of the hood with extra shock sleeves i had laying around and coated under the intake mani with heat shield.
Not sure why amc didn't put coolant ports through the intake mani like all other motor company's do. Especially with one that touches the exhaust mani.
- Location
- Virginia City, NV
El Junky
is it just finesse or magic frijoles?
is it just finesse or magic frijoles?
Mike1331
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Folsom, CA
Re: El Junky
What the? how the flip? AND your running phatty spacers up front...? That shit has unicorn strength man. :shiver:
What the? how the flip? AND your running phatty spacers up front...? That shit has unicorn strength man. :shiver:
Mike1331
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Folsom, CA
Re: El Junky
who's yj is that? fuggin sick:greensmok
who's yj is that? fuggin sick:greensmok
- Location
- sacramento
Re: El Junky
I feel like my entire outlook on wheeling on a dana 30 has changed from seeing you wheel the hell out of that same 30 for so long on 33" . 35", 37", 39.5" tires. Do you have any idea of why that set of 3.55s has lasted ? compared to a set of say 4.88s? or is it just magic?
I feel like my entire outlook on wheeling on a dana 30 has changed from seeing you wheel the hell out of that same 30 for so long on 33" . 35", 37", 39.5" tires. Do you have any idea of why that set of 3.55s has lasted ? compared to a set of say 4.88s? or is it just magic?
16vvincent
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Sacramento California
Re: El Junky
I agree with blondejon. I was worried about the amount of beefing up I was going to do to mine on 33's and you are doing this to one.
As for the 3.55's I am guessing that those gears are not stressing the 30 the way that a set of 4.56's would. Acting like a torque limiter, between the transmission and the axle shafts.
What you have done to that poor truck is simply :flame:
I agree with blondejon. I was worried about the amount of beefing up I was going to do to mine on 33's and you are doing this to one.
As for the 3.55's I am guessing that those gears are not stressing the 30 the way that a set of 4.56's would. Acting like a torque limiter, between the transmission and the axle shafts.
What you have done to that poor truck is simply :flame:
Mike1331
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Folsom, CA
Re: El Junky
yeah a 3.55 pinion gear has more teeth engagement at the ring gear, i think 2 more teeth that a 4.88 set up. and thats a good point about it acting as a tourque limiter.
yeah a 3.55 pinion gear has more teeth engagement at the ring gear, i think 2 more teeth that a 4.88 set up. and thats a good point about it acting as a tourque limiter.
16vvincent
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Sacramento California
Re: El Junky
Unless there is other thoughts, everything that I have read on the Dana 30 is that the axles and u-joints are the weakest part. The amount of torque that those parts "see" is the cause of their breakage. That is why if you come down hard on one corner with the wheels spinning, the caps blow off the axles.
Considering that, and El Junky's condition, someone is being much easier on the gas pedal then the condition of Junky would indicate. :woohoo:
That is pretty impressive!
Unless there is other thoughts, everything that I have read on the Dana 30 is that the axles and u-joints are the weakest part. The amount of torque that those parts "see" is the cause of their breakage. That is why if you come down hard on one corner with the wheels spinning, the caps blow off the axles.
Considering that, and El Junky's condition, someone is being much easier on the gas pedal then the condition of Junky would indicate. :woohoo:
That is pretty impressive!
16vvincent
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Sacramento California
Re: El Junky
I wonder if that is where the failure starts. The cap loosens up, moves up the yoke and then falls off, the cross then hits the yoke and busts it. Perhaps you are catching the cause of the all axle failures just before the bomb goes off.
I wonder if that is where the failure starts. The cap loosens up, moves up the yoke and then falls off, the cross then hits the yoke and busts it. Perhaps you are catching the cause of the all axle failures just before the bomb goes off.
16vvincent
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Sacramento California
Re: El Junky
YET!! :explosion
YET!! :explosion
