I shrunk the previous pictures, I have admin rights on a few other sites and it drives me nuts when somebody breaks the screen scrolling.

Anyways, got uglier the farther apart we got it. Getting pinion and counter shafts and the differential carrier as well. One of the spiders ate the pin up then preceded to bore its way into the carrier.

After getting it all apart their seems to be a design flaw, not a fatal one since it's lasted this long but a flaw nonetheless. Since the front differential is driven from the rear instead of the front and with the placement of the pinion, when under a load it appears the pinion shaft/gear assembly tries to pull itself into the ring gear and carrier instead of pushing against the very large bearing directly behind the gear. 

I say this as we had a considerable amount of endplay in our shaft and it had actually started to wear a teeth pattern into the carrier. I also say this as the considerably smaller bearing on the opposite end of the shaft had enough wear that it actually pulled the bearing far enough into the cup and ran their long enough that a considerable ridge could be felt about a 1/8&quot; from the edge of the cup.

After looking at everything, if they would have turned the big bearing and cup around and reworked the housing,  then the snap ring would have had to be moved as well, but then the pinion could pull against the large bearing instead of the small one.

Pictures follow: 

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In these you can see it pulled the small bearing far enough into the cup the outer 1/8&quot; didn't even wear. One of the rollers fell out of the bearing when I was wiping it off to find the numbers.

[img:2mzciekp]http&#58;//dkpfiles&#46;com/endgameguild/forum/57441/cup&#46;jpg[/img:2mzciekp]

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