I'm interested why you used the sidekick 3rd member in the samurai diff. Its aluminum and the samurai 3rd member is stronger from what I know. I just picked up a diff today to do my own sas on my 2 door and getting started on it soon, just curious.
Good question, putting the 5.13 gears in the samurai housing is a lot more involved. I would need to buy a new pinion sleeve and I think a ring gear spacer (this way I didn’t need to buy anything) and then I would have to set the preload on the pinion bearings and the ring gear contact pattern. Seems pretty unlikely thing to break in my opinion and saves a few pounds of unsprung weight.
Ive never heard of using a pinion sleeve or a ring spacer. I'm prob just gonna do what you did. I have seen vids where the tracker third member has broken. Ive yet to hurt mine and I wheel the thing pretty hard on 33s.
@@gtf_outside2181 Yeah, It a whole other can of worms. This way, just set the backlash to .009", tighten the bearing adjusters (I just used a hammer and punch and some firm taps, just short of mushrooming the holes.)
Thank you for making these vids as my brother as a sidekick we will be doing this to. This really helps a lot
Great job on the build!
I'm interested why you used the sidekick 3rd member in the samurai diff. Its aluminum and the samurai 3rd member is stronger from what I know. I just picked up a diff today to do my own sas on my 2 door and getting started on it soon, just curious.
Good question, putting the 5.13 gears in the samurai housing is a lot more involved. I would need to buy a new pinion sleeve and I think a ring gear spacer (this way I didn’t need to buy anything) and then I would have to set the preload on the pinion bearings and the ring gear contact pattern. Seems pretty unlikely thing to break in my opinion and saves a few pounds of unsprung weight.
Ive never heard of using a pinion sleeve or a ring spacer. I'm prob just gonna do what you did. I have seen vids where the tracker third member has broken. Ive yet to hurt mine and I wheel the thing pretty hard on 33s.
@@gtf_outside2181 Yeah, It a whole other can of worms. This way, just set the backlash to .009", tighten the bearing adjusters (I just used a hammer and punch and some firm taps, just short of mushrooming the holes.)
Make it ride nicer??? That’s just a suggestion.