Rather than grinding teeth, put the locker in the carrier, then bolt up the ring gear.
Rather than grinding teeth, put the locker in the carrier, then bolt up the ring gear.
Grinding gear teeth would only be necessary if he was already running 4.56 gears and was installing the Aussie locker without removing the carrier. He is already running the Aussie locker though and asking if he can still run it after swapping the gears.
Yes. He won't even have to touch the Aussie locker since the carrier break on the 8.25 is like 2.72 and numerically lower gears. Just install new gears on current carrier. done.
No... Grinding the teeth is necessary to clear the cross pin regardless of locker or not. On an 8.25 axle you cannot assemble the carrier first, the axle shafts go in first followed by c-clips then spider gears/ locker and then the cross pin to keep the clips from coming out. It’s the same with a locker. The cross pin is the last step and with 4:56s which are thicker you do not have clearance to get the pin in.
It doesn’t take much but they will have to be ground a bit.
Somebody needs to make a c-clip eliminator kit for the 8.25!