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Honestly the whole idea and the appearance of those welds isn't confidence inspiring. Welding on castings takes a very controlled environment and in general isn't advisable if you can avoid it. Pre-heating to avoid hydrogen embrittlement and then salt annealing to ensure you don't have any...

You can't do that. You're not envisioning how this system works. even if you moved the welds 90 degrees and put the spiders back in - with the spiders in place and the outer gear welded the entire unit would become solid and unable to rotate. The truck wouldn't move at all.

Right - I know how the system works. I'm trying to get @coachgeo to understand what we are asking - what's keeping the inner gear from sliding out off the nut roll pins? I don't think that would work. The roll pins are not that long and the gear would walk out off of them. But I suspect you...

How is the inner gear retained on the spindle? The inner gear is normally held in place by the spider gears and held stationary by the splines on the spindle and it prevents the spindle nut from backing off by engaging the roll pins protruding from the face of the nut.

Military vehicles in general aren't really the best hobby if you haven't got money. Pick a cheaper hobby or maybe learning a marketable skill FIRST so you can have money for hobbies..... but IDK maybe I'm doing it all backwards. 🤷‍♂️ The Motorpool guys I've talked to complement the...