Everyone and their Mothers did this back in the 70,s to their limited slip,posi trac rearends in muslecars for street drag racing. Cheaper way to go and it works.

My 88 bronco is on 18x39.5x15 boggers with 90 f350 axles. Both diffs are welded. 15 years later still no issues. No broken u joints. No cracks. All for a handful of 7018 rods. Nice thing about a welded or spooled diff is theres no hard engagement of the locker during wheel spin to break axles and u joints. If your 85 percent off rd 15 percent road to get from trail to trail this is a great way to go. But i drive my bronco to work daily and drive all over on 37x13.50x18 nitto mudgrapplers for street use. It squaks around corners pretty loud but i deal with it. And yes id TOTALLY drive from massey to B.C tomorrow if i had to. Its fine.

@jgadventures6409

5 жыл бұрын

Ernie Desjardins my truck would leave a trail of rubber chunks when I would pull into a parking spot. Lol and I do mean chunks of rubber

@wildestcowboy2668

2 жыл бұрын

I want to do my 96 Jeep Cherokee 2wd like that. My neighbor said when I have rear end locked it will be almost as good as a 4wd.

Can I just say, you’re the Mr. Rogers of the Jeep world. And I say that with the up most respect. Love your videos.

Noticed you moved your ground clamp from the axle case to the ring gear. Smart move. Could have easily toasted them bearings.

We used to weld spider gears back in the old days of racing. Just go to a junk yard and get a Diff out of a 3/4 tone something. There usually posi trac. Those welds can break and you'd be stranded. Think about it. We break teeth off hardened gears. Welds are never as good as hardened steel. So if teeth can break....welds can break easier. Some things you want to do right.

Make sure you connect the ground to the ring gear like he did. Don't connect to the housing. The current will travel through the bearings and pit them. You will be tearing back into it soon enough to change bearings. Don't ask me how I know...

@bigdaddydrewhoe3746

7 жыл бұрын

TheKajunkat how do you know?

@braaaaapp2464

7 жыл бұрын

TheKajunkat makes a good point there

@TheKajunkat

7 жыл бұрын

it is a great idea. the only part of the tooth to engage the pinion is the face.the back and tips could take a lot of damage before they caused any issues. regardless, if you have a good connection it won't arc and pit. the bearings have small gaps that the arc jumps and causes micro welds and pits.

@MrTheHillfolk

6 жыл бұрын

BigDaddyDrew Hoe Electric motors will have pitted bearings because of this issue. One way to stop arcing your bearings that is add a grounding brush on the armature to the motor case. Same deal here, depending on where the welder is grounded (on the case) its current path is thru the bearings.

@MrTheHillfolk

6 жыл бұрын

Hugh G Wrection Lol don’t clamp right on the teeth, anywhere on the pig would be fine. Pull a ring gear bolt and add a metal tab for a ground , or if the cross pin bolt threaded in the case you could put one there too.

I feel like an addict goin to the methodone clinic... gots ta getme some CHEEP JEEP!

It was nice to hear mention of some of the old bleepin crew. I really miss those guys and it was sad when they just disappeared

I was really digging the tunes.. good choice and thank you

i can smell the diff fluid trough the screen of my phone.

@melody3741

7 жыл бұрын

Marco Montoya it smells nostalgic to me. i like it.

@7cperformance314

7 жыл бұрын

Marco Montoya well throw your phone away because you will never get that smell out

@246cuevas

7 жыл бұрын

Superman I always knew it was flat......Is that you on the other side? I yell at the floor and I almost hear a reply.

@Bronkey469

7 жыл бұрын

Patrick D Sell it... it isnt worth the trouble of cleaning

@AppleBag1000

6 жыл бұрын

all your missing is pancakes lol

That did turn out well.. Great welding!

You have really nice beads you must weld a lot looks like you get good penetration too. Nice work 😁👍👍

if your diff has a abs sensor on the top.. great way to fill with oil. I use 7018 rods. my sterling 10.25 has been welded for ten years now. daily drivin and abused hard with 39.5 boggers or my 42 inch grooved tsl s. no cracks yet.

One tip... add some rags and stuff on the inside of the case, you don't want slag to fly into the case, and not see it once you put it back together... :)

been while since we had a cheap jeep vid......;)

Great quickie just to have fun to go 4xing but I did the same thing on several Riggs and if you've drive it on the street they will eventually break... Mine took a while but slowly started coming apart into little fragments that eventually get bigger and then cycle through the whole rear end. But I don't have regrets doing it it was fun, good know how video.

@commieburner9159

3 жыл бұрын

you did it wrong

@samuelchamberlain1909

Жыл бұрын

Welded diffs shouldn’t ever break, unless you really beat on it, but usually then you’ll break an axle not the diff, I’d try warming it up a little longer before welding, may have just not had enough penetration and broke apart after a while. I’ve seen a few guys dailying welded diffs for 8+ years without issues, just destroys tires a lot quicker lol

Clean welds!! I need to practice more :)

haha you the man; your approach is better than the other guys welding on the inner gears cuz that might keep the center pin from coming out ever again!! (like if your machine needs the axles to come out as with some breaks or wheel bearings)

another way to find gear ratio is the mark the drive shaft and the tire and count how many times the drive shaft spins for one revolution of the tire

Great video

nice job !!! thumb up!

Nice looking welds.

very nice weld job

Cleaning off the diff tag is like a Jeep scratch ticket.

Spooled rear end = so much fun in a wet parking lot.

sweet rear bumper!!!

Ty for the video I have a 98 jeep Cherokee sport that one day I may restore I'm not sure

ready for drifting now

I new it could be done. Now I know how. Thanks

Heating up steel before welding will help to achieve better, deeper welds.

Cool lesson on gear ratio's. Cool. Poor man posi my dad welded his on his truck and it worked great.

awesome!

Hey Matt, just wondering when you will be getting Cheap Jeep some new tires?

I just did this on a bronco. Welded the rear and installed a Lokka up front.

Great for trail ONLY rigs. Terrible one dry/snow daily. My yj runs a front lock rite/open rear, stock axles 33's and yet you get stuck and very severe stuff. My zj, lock rite front/ true track rear same lift/33's, both excellent daily drivers and fantastic trail rigs. You'll never be happy with welded rear diffs if you drive daily, deadly mistake when winter hits. Ps, installed correctly, front lock rites drive perfect and quite for normal driving and although they fully lock in 4wd, just don't gas it hard around tight corners and they're awsome for city bad roads too.

that BOY can weld !

Will that little bit of weld hold up when you are out in the deep mud running 33x12.50’s???

can you remove the open diff and install an lsd after doing this or is the whole diff stuck after welding.?.

I have the exact same watch as you man!

u can also weld a plate to gears ,that sits in the middle covering pin to make REAL sure no thing is coming apart

@bleepinjeep my grand Cherokee has the quadratrac trans could I still weld my rear diff or would it cause a issue

Big fan. You need to make a wheeling video when you get the time whit this jeep.

LOL That music is so Jazzy and Frenchy. ;)

@bleepinjeep

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for reminding me where that came from, its hard to remember sometimes as I download the music and edit the video a couple weeks before I upload and add the description: Music: www.bensound.com

@eightballsidepocket

7 жыл бұрын

BleepinJeep No sweat. I love that track. :)

I did this on front end because hole for pin was ovaled out and small gears shattered. works good but turning on dry ground is jumpy and sidehills are bad cause front wants to slide downhill,I can lock or unlock with locking hubs either wheel.

@bleepinjeep

6 жыл бұрын

having a spool in front is not much fun

i have welded several rear diffs and have had no problems. i recently bought dana 44 front with locking hubs and my question is; can i weld my front diff and still have a dailey with the hubs unlocked?

if you guys go back in the video and you look after he polish that tags the first three numbers is 3 space 73 that's the gear ratio

that"s a lot better than the trash-loc that came in my jk.

Old NZ stockcar racers chucked a handfull of nuts n bolts in the old truck diffs they used in thier flathead V8 cars,true!

@vtecpreludevtec

7 жыл бұрын

To lock them.

There is a better way to do it. Pull the center pin and C clips and remove all the spiders. Heat one gear at a time, weld three teeth solid, skip three, weld three. Do this to all four gears. Reinstall the gears. Now you have a completely serviceable fully locked rear differential. The three on, three off numbers apply to GM ten and twelve bolt differential. Count your teeth before you start to be sure those numbers work for your rig. Before know it alls start saying this can't be done or doesn't work, I have done the rear differential gears on around 825 demolition derby cars without a single break or malfunction of any kind. Be sure to pre heat the gears and wrap them in a fireproof welding blanket and allow to cool overnight.

@Waynus888

9 ай бұрын

That’s a fozzy locker.

Hey man I love your videos. I'm building a rock crawler with 14-bolt front and rear steering axles do you think I should link and lock it front and rear or Spool in the rear Detroit in the front or what do you think it's only off road and I'm going to have Drive flanges front and rear

when you turn on corners one of the tires will slide or slip and wears faster because it is no longer an open differential

Ive bin watching your videos for years, your probably the reason my jeeps still running haha, but i have a question, what is the disk called that you use to clean the rtv off the diff cover??

@thatguy83ful

2 жыл бұрын

Roloc disc.

Bleepinjeep, can this be done on the rear of a 98 jeep cherokee XJ model that is 4x4? Can you still use it as a daily driver? and I've heard it would handle different on the road during the winter months or when the road is wet. Shine some light on the subject for me. Also the video you made on the transfer case removal at the pull a part helped me learn how to change out the broken one on mine. Oh and I have a 3 inch lift gonna be running 31's soon

Your driver side lower control arm is missing a nut on the frame side.

@KentuckyFriedClassic

7 жыл бұрын

lol

@austindvorak3061

7 жыл бұрын

Its a basic rule. When you take something apart and put it back together, your supposed to always have extra nuts and bolts afterwards.

@JBetoRodrigues

6 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha...!

@shanehart1123

6 жыл бұрын

Lh side mudflap countershaft isnt balanced horizontally to the equator pal good shit guys lmao

@shaneyovich6201

5 жыл бұрын

I’m so glad I wasn’t the only person who saw that

looks like the diff in mine i couldnt get a gasket for it its a dana 44 but the case is like an inch bigger than any gasket so i went the silicone route also

@edgardiaz2361

4 жыл бұрын

Dale Rollis lube locker finally came out with one for the Dana 44HD (a) But make are u order the right one bc there are so many danna 44 out there and only one place makes it. Lube locker is the only company making them for our zj 5.2 liter And 5.9

Nice welding

I don't want to lock the rear on my rig this way. Id rather get a legit locker but in the front I have ifs and free auto hubs so I don't have to get out to engage them. I've never had an issue with the suspension or the hubs but if I did this to the front would I need to worry about anything. Would my auto locking hubs still work. And with it all locked would the ifs and CVs handle the axle being locked? Thanks

Awesome, luckily when it grenades in 6 months a new carrier is only $55. Just get a lunchbox lol!

Aren't the ring and pinion count stamped on the ring gear that would be w hell of a lot easier that counting them

so does the end of the vid mean ur welding the front also ? great videos!

how to know if my jeep grand cherokee limited 2000 have or not lock diffs ?

Lincoln locker🙌🏼

The axles of the cherokee zj dana 44hd, supports tires 40? or a ford 9 is better, here in Brazil we have ford 9 with locking ratio 3.73..

@bleepinjeep

6 жыл бұрын

9 is better!

Nice

I have a 140 welder with Gasless wire should I weld it with max power

What do you think for daily use in a 4runner 2gen

Will that work on 04 grand Cherokee? And how reliable is it?

Shouldn’t the car be level when filling the diff

Great bead, can you show me on paper what you welded i could only see one side, was that it

That song got me so mad in rage it ain't cute u mechanic princess

How do you weld a limited-slip Sterling 10.5 Dana 60 rear end

What voltage what’s your mig welder set on

I feel like it wouldve been smart to weld in a small metal plate, just to make it stronger.

@danielmiller3967

Жыл бұрын

How would you be able to remove the axle later if you did that?

Did that to a 84 dodge 2 wheel drive truck with a 360 and granny gears. Would go a llot more places then it did before. Hard on tires though.

@TREX3151

3 жыл бұрын

@Mick Mack ????

coo,l that solved my stripped spider problem.

Would like to know how you are ever going to change the wheel bearing if need be. That's a c clip axle and now you can't get them out.

@SimonElenor

6 жыл бұрын

I know you left the pin and clips free but the shaft never comes out easy or ever goes back in.

Which axle is that? I have a 94 ZJ 4.0 with 3.73 gears and it looks the same as the one you have. I’m looking to regear it to a 4.11 or 4.30 because it’s too slow with 33s.

@bleepinjeep

5 жыл бұрын

44a

Thinking about welding my rear dif. Don't drive this as a daily driver but I do trips to go off road. Like Arizona to Utah or Colorado. Any major problems with that?

@bleepinjeep

5 жыл бұрын

Quicker tire wear.

So I'm a little new to this and I see you only have one front wheel jacked up so the shafts will spin . I'm an idiot and disconnected my shaft . Then broke a bolt off on to the yoke shaft on the diff side . Now I feel so stupid.

I'm starting to realize I need a bigger Jack and taller stands too

nice.

What if you welded 3 together and grind off sides of the teeth on the 4th to make a poor man's lunchbox locker? Then the play (from grinding off) would allow partial difference on road just like the aftermarket locker kits....?

is yours a lincoln locker, or a miller locker. the lincoln locker is much better for both on and off road, it will last longer and hold up to bigger tires. :)

@Texaca

7 жыл бұрын

oldreliable303 Justin Scott ---- I had to read that twice, I was a bit groggy at first, Iol Very funny, is there a Weld Pak 100 version... or a Thermadyn... lol

@oldreliable303

7 жыл бұрын

weld pak 100, i got one of those in 92, it is the best little welder i have ever owned, it anit big or very powerfull or pretty, but it always works and does what i need it to. still my mp210 is much better.

@xxRamD3yruxx

7 жыл бұрын

chicago electric locker, the worst of the flux locking bunch

@unclequack5445

6 жыл бұрын

Lincoln Locker is the original.

@MrTheHillfolk

6 жыл бұрын

Alfredo Texas64 He’s got it backwards though because when I walked into the welding place to buy a welder, the guy asked: weekend warrior or professional? I said pro and he said : ok well let’s look at some millers instead of Lincolns. I walked out with a miller 130 and a Lincoln cart, because it had room to stuff the plasma cutter below the welder.

itu ada honda crf hobi trail juga ya

How does this handle highway driving. Sometimes I take my daily driver 7hr drive to the beach.

@bleepinjeep

6 жыл бұрын

Hey is fine, parking lots are horrible

Gracias amigo lo aplique ami auto i funcionó muy bien te lo agradezco por este vídeo.

seems to me that this wouldn't be to good making sharp turns especially on pavement. I did this years ago on a Bronco front, but it had lockouts so it was just locked in for off road. also it always it would pull to the side when trying to go up a sand bank. But the traction was great.

@bleepinjeep

5 жыл бұрын

Nope it's a bit chirpy

Would it have helped to make a plate to weld between the spider gears

@bleepinjeep

6 жыл бұрын

Seems to have worked fine as is.

Crazy! But hey its your vehicle.

Will it last?

how much horsepower can that lincon locker take?, any body had had any failures on something like this after hard wheeling??

@paintmax1052

5 жыл бұрын

It will hold all the carrier will take

I have 31s on my XJ. I don't know my ratio but would I have to change out for the bigger tires?

@mirmiryj2686

7 жыл бұрын

WolfKingJS54 you dont have to but you'll lose speed

@WolfKingJS54

7 жыл бұрын

MirmirYJ lose speed on the odometer. When I start to drive it's stays 0 MPH until like 5

Good video 👍one thing don’t spread permatex out you put on 1/8 bead and bolt it up. Sorry it’s a pet peeve of mine every video on KZread that involves permatex people spread it out with their finger

What kinda welder did you use

Any on how to do the front?

Is that a posse track?😊

WHAT DOES 3.73 MEAN TO ME ? ! C clip axle rip it out nd replace with dana 44

Now do a 3 point turn

@SkankRemix3

5 жыл бұрын

Bitch, this aint no "do a three point turn" mall crawler.. lolol

Will this work if it has factory limited slip?

@DakotaJaegle

6 жыл бұрын

TheDangerzone don’t ruin a limited slip lol

Just keep adding small rocks in the hole and that will lock ur diff faster and with no time or money spent