rear diff has balls

[Redbone]

What are the weights for on the front left of the rear diff for?

 

[tommudd]

They are NIB SH** catchers

They just caught another one !!lol3.gif

Suppose to be to prevent driveline vibes
most everyone takes them off and slings them over the hill though.

 

[HoosierJeeper]

Park near another attractive Jeep and you'll see....



jk

 

[Redbone]

Thanks. I'll liberate my Liberty today.

 

[yellocoyote]

That weight is heavy if you're not ready for it. I wasn't when I removed mine last year... smashed the

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out of a finger.

 

[twack]

anyone got a pic of this

 

[Atrus]

anyone got a pic of this

Look on the driver's side of the rear differential. You can't miss it.

 

[Midgear]

is this that sort of roller lookin thing.. a large piece of metal with what looks like a small wheel on either side of it?

I thought that was to help the rear axle from hitting or dragging on things..

 

[twack]

Look on the driver's side of the rear differential. You can't miss it.

i would but its snowing right now

 

[Midgear]

No, its a useless huge weight.

oh.. well good. I ripped mine off because I was mowing through this chunky ass mud and had great momentum, just enough wheel spin to fling a bit of mud around, it was all going flawless, and then I came to a violent hault, after a bit of fighting with it and back forth back forth trying to get unstuck, I finally pulled through and a boulder that musta weighed over 200 pounds was dragging on my undercarriage.. ouch. I dragged it a good 10 - 15 feet before I got up on harder ground and had the clearance to get over it.

bent those weights all to hell.. I thought it was something I was gonna have to replace.. guess not!

 

[Redbone]

And today my son tells me he knows all about them. Some Mustangs have them too. The Mustang guys remove them.

I guess some eggheads with sensitive instruments decided we need them to lessen NHV.