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All the parts went back but the spider. If my memory serves me correct.

The fronts the hubs have to come off, along with the brake spider and then you can pull the front axle shafts. With axle shafts pulled you can un-bolt the center section and remove. Fairly straight forward. It will be much more involved on a 6x6 as the center axle has more to take apart, and...

Just slightly, as the turbo spools, it starts to pull. Shifts from 2nd to 3rd about 8mph. What I like is not being in 7th At 35mph. In my opinion it makes each gear more useable. I think with the 290 engines it would be perfect.

Drove all around town, and on the highway. Went through a bunch of parking lots and never knew the locker was there. Now the high speed gears, love them. 45 indicates is now 60

I did notice pulling out of my drive way onto a dirt road the inside tire left a track. Really haven't noticed anything else. Also drove into my manure pile to get the truck off kilter, got the rear two tires to spin. Where in the past only one would.

Interesting tidbit. Still hearing hub noise and having had both fronts off and on and correctly shimmed, figures it was time to check the rear. So I drove a rear tire up on some blocks to run the gear lube to the other side of the axle. I popped the cover, caught the cup of oil that was still...

That's a good idea, my spare bucket got full of gear oil from the axle. Also I needed access to the pinion to turn it for setting the contact area on the gears, since I didn't check lash prior to disassembley. As rotating the ring gear isn't the right way. If I didn't live on the other side...

It's not too difficult to do. And yes scribe everything. It was actually a little easier than I had expected. Parts are heavy though. I set my center section on two jack stands and that allowed for the pinion to spin below. Made life a lot easier

Just make sure you measure the gear lash before you take it apart, and return it to the same gear lash on re assembly. I did not and it caused me a lot of extra work.

Pedal to the floor, 90 degree turn, no chirp. Added a shim to a front hub, made it a lot quieter. Now can hear that the rears need adjustment. And yes need to get off road still.

First street drive of the locker. Only got it to lock on one corner really trying. Sounded like something rolling in the bed, and not a loud bang. Other than that never noticed it. The high speed gears are very nice addition. Gear changes are much smoother, held speed up hills better...

Yep I can run it up on a manure pile I have lol. It's slick as s.... it may be a while before I can get it off kilter. I'll know soon about locker clunk if there is any.

Took a bit longer because the hubs had to come off, and as I was pressed for time working between rain showers I didn't document like I would have liked. I only installed a locker in the rear, but high speed gears all around. Got the tires on today and moved it but still need to double check...

Solo, with the help of hydraulics.

No rain project update. Today I got the rear carrier removed and replaced with the high speed carrier and gears. Hardest part was getting the drive shafts back in. Was not easy to get it all lined up, had to loosen the bolts a touch and jostle the carrier, swear a bunch, second guess myself...

So today brought some much needed sunshine, with that I was able to disconnect the rear drive shaft from the differential and I drained the gear lube. So a couple things to keep in mind when doing this. Gear lube drains out faster than an oil catch pan drains, and its over 4 gallons. I...

Ok everyone I dug back into it. Started over. First I reset the bearing preload. I did this by loosing the caps more so on the ring side. Then set up the dial indicator on the ring, while using two pry bars to wiggle the ring back and fourth. I adjusted the pinion side cap in until there...

Setting the gear lash took way longer than expected. FYI check the gear lash in a lot of areas and when setting the left right of the ring gear mark and use the same spots. What I found is that around the diameter of the ring lash varies from .010 to .018. Meritor new spec is .012 to .020 on...

of course I have the second chunk, lol. I actually had the gears before I had the truck. I'm setting the lash myself, using a meritor guide. Looking a the lite wear on the ring the pinion depth is good, now just to left right and preload

its always on on until one wheel speeds up in a corner and it releases. Wish it was an arb but.. beggars can't be choosers. Only installing one in the rear. I'll post more photos of the gear lash set up. Ran out of time tonight.