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https://imgur.com/a/swEfX This was the pinion gear. The wear marks are supposed to look ”not like that.”

Yup, I've got a 14 bolt in an older parts truck out back that should bolt right in. Going to take it apart and clean it, paint it, and probably do a shackle flip while I'm there. Since that truck has a Dana 44 with matching gear ratios in the front I'll likely swap that too rather than...

Well, I brought the carrier, pinion, and bearings to have Grand Pa help me look them over. As soon as I had things on his well lit workbench I started to see that the gears are not pretty. His words were, ”these are the ugliest gears I've seen that are not broken” and we found the pinion bearing...

I was hoping to spend my time and money doing some work on my Cummins, so I was thinking this would be a quick cheap fix. I wanted to be able to drive the M1009 while I had the Cummins torn down. I am starting to think my plan may have to change.

Thank you everyone for the help, I'm going to hopefully have a chance to take a closer look this weekend. Now I'm wishing I had stopped taking things apart a little sooner before having to ruin the pinion seal and cross pin. I'm sure that the ujoint wasn't the issue, and I had assumed pinion...

This started about 1000 miles ago with a small trailer filled with rock. On the way home it made some speed related, low growling sounds. The locker also might have been misbehaving, locking and unlocking during a normal turn. The next day, no trailer, but still making the aweful sounds. Took...