Thread: Degree of Difficulty in Fitting Detroit Tru Tracs?

Pretty straightforward if you have resonable spanner skills and tools. You will require a torque wrench and a dial indicator with magnetic base.

Full engineering workshop at my disposal....but no gauge currently, and reasonable spanner skills.
Guess there is really only one way to find out...whats the worst that could happen?

As bigjon states, pretty easy

Not really much of an "engineering" shop with no dial indicator

The worst thing that could happen is your diff howls like a banshee and premature failing of said diff, causing a full lock up and you slide of the road into a hospital full of orphans and the whole place blows up killing all but you, so your left to live with the terrible guilt

Its pretty easy reall, just tricky to maintain backlash and get preload on the carrier bearings right, oh, its much easier if you make yourself a nice c spanner

Hamish - Give it a go!

A dial gauge with a magnetic base will set you back about $30, so you better go out and buy one.

I have front and rear True-Tracs sitting in a box ready to be fitted to my 130, so make sure you take lots of pictures and post them up so I can see how it's done

Originally Posted by rovercare

As bigjon states, pretty easy

Not really much of an "engineering" shop with no dial indicator

The worst thing that could happen is your diff howls like a banshee and premature failing of said diff, causing a full lock up and you slide of the road into a hospital full of orphans and the whole place blows up killing all but you, so your left to live with the terrible guilt

Its pretty easy reall, just tricky to maintain backlash and get preload on the carrier bearings right, oh, its much easier if you make yourself a nice c spanner

lol...let me rephrase that....I cant find a dial gauge.....but maybe one of them wierd engineering types downstairs knows where it is.....but then, Id have to talk to them!

Yeah not to hard, alot easyer if you don't have to muck around with pinion pre-load and pinion depth, i had to when i fitted 4:11 diff ratio's that required alot of stuffing around to get it right

TIM.

Mate I've just done a no spin in the rear of my 130 and tru track in the front, the no spin was really easy, the true trac took a full day, a lot more stuffing around getting the axles out, I took a short cut and undid the 6 bolts at the end of the diff housing that holds your stub axles and everything on it, saves a lot of time, just be carefull not to damage the brake hose,

apart from that all worked out well, it does seem to pull a bit on the steering now though, more like a front wheel drive.

give it a go,

cheers
scottyp

Scotyp - were the difficulties with installing the TrueTrac due to something with setting up/installing the diff itself, or more that it was the front axle?