yes, I too have had carnaige from using my LJ as a tractor. first, the original transfer case in the LJ10 stripped the gears when the bearings got worn and siezed, this I thought was due to previous owners lack of upkeep. the second transfer case was from a LJ20 which by the way is slightly diferent...

We will be there sometime on Friday! hoping afternoon but ya never know how much last minute stuff I gotta do Friday morning! If you only knew how much I got left to do tomorrow before work!! :-( My wife is whining because she doesn't want to tent it like Smuz did last year!! See ya Friday Where is ...

Steve we want a L and an XL shirt! Plus like last year we will take our free dash plaque and buy a second! Is it time to head out yet? Paul is ready for a vacation... But busy as ever.

Smuz,
Referring back to the possible motel stay... Won't Alice let you stay in the tent again??? Can't wait to see everyone and all the LJ's again. I know we've been stuck up and not on the forums but we are still here and still coming!

no, well said smuz! so I guess my buddy should beat the price of the lj80 locker. I still havent sent that off.

my buddy says he can have a casting made that will fit in place of the side gears that pins into the carier like a lockrite or ez-locker. this would make it into a spool. I have to send him the carrier and side gears so he can make a pattern to work from. he is currently making adapters for dual tra...

thats what mine did, and when you put pressure on it it will twist and rub the housing or bind the tie rods the opposite way. you will bend it, trust me. hows it working.....

what about a spool? I know someone who says that he can have them made. anyone interested? yes, when I get time I will still look into the other locker.

boy going up that trail would have been real bad, passable but with spotters and the like. ya, Im going to liberty over labor day! :cool: I have to fix my front drive shaft though, the spring clip on the inside of the cv let loose finally and thats why it popped the shaft out, dont know why it didnt...

here are some pics for you all to see, took me a while to get them on here, I been busy with camping and stuff since I got back. Saturday after everyone allready left the wife and I went and drove the whole Alpine loop all the way around and down into Ouray and back to Eureka. the trip from Engineer...

yea, I got home friday night (july 1). we drove around the rest of the week and went to Mesa Verde also on the way home. we had a lot of fun with all of you and are looking forward to the next meet. thanks for the laughs and good times and Im glad we all had fun.

ya, those two "shots" knocked me on my butt, my wife says she has never seen me that wasted! guess I should have eaten before I drank huh? that hot sauce is good stuff! if anyone wants hot sauce thats the stuff to get. we are getting some for our parents! :twisted: ok, someone is screwing ...

Ill bring some, but I dont have enough room for very much, so hopefully we can get some there.

I can bring two little gas grills, and we are thinking about the food, so I'll get back in a day or so.

I still need to take the parts to themachine shop for a price estimate, but I got to thinking about something..... how many of you who have welded your gears for a locker have ended up breaking the pinion or stripping the teeth on the ring gear or something like that? what I thought was that if this...

thanks to Jock for sending me the 50 gears to work with! :cool: ok, the 50 gear has a taller flange and it is also thicker wall than the 10 gear. this means that it will not fit in the carrier where this is supposed to sit. so the carrier will have to be bored, and possibly deeper if possible but on...

this is something I thought some of you might try if you spring over the front. I tried it and the rods are to light, they just bend under pressure. I felt that even adding more braces would just move the problem to an other place. the z portion of the rod wants to roll over in a circular motion and...

well smuz, are you still gonna try this on wilson?

I was suprized to see that the lj50 side gear actually has more material around where the axle is inserted than the lj80 rear gear does. that means the gear is stronger than the lj80 gear! so, does anyone know if there is any difference in length of the inside of a lj10-20 carrier and an lj80 carrie...

any more news on this? I have a junk carrier, I thought about taking it to northwest machine and have them enlarge the opening and biuld up the cap so its more like the original setup agian. I dont think this would cost a whole lot, but we will see. so I guess I also need the lj80 side gears, are th...

how are we gunna know what size or how many sizes we should drop to?
boy, with my flooding problem down this low its anoying so up that high it probably would die! gues I should rebuild the carb too!

ya, the dowels could work, if there is enough material in the cap to hold them. hey smuz, thanks for doing all the work on this, it is a lot of help to us who would like a locker. I would like to see all that with the LJ80 side gears! really if it all works out it will be a fair price to have a lock...

how will the carrier cap stay centered with no machined surface to push agianst? the bolts surely will not hold up to the task, if they did hold they would work loose. what I thought on that was that if you took the carrier to the machine shop you could have it machined out to a size then have a shi...

wow, I gotta hurry up and finish my lj so its good for colorado! hopefully my job will keep me going full time all winter. a drop in the stud market means time off for my chicken sh@t company I work for.

ya, Im gonna have to get some jets for my datson!