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So I learned something at OCBR this year.
I've been listening to my Spartan locker pop with every move of the steering wheel for "years" now, ever since I installed it a few years back.
Friday morning, Buckhorn North would deny me. On a certain rutted hill climb, which had also cost me an axle u joint at the first prerun I went to, the right front wheel quit pulling, and 3 wheel drive is just not enough to get up the hill.
So the guys I was with decided to swap my RF locking hub because mine just wasn't working. After I got back to the parking lot, I started investigating why. Fitz24 asked if there were two snap ring grooves on the stub shaft. I had no idea why. I've never even noticed the inner groove. Then it dawned on me.
For a couple years, I've been leaving the screws in the caps loose because I don't have the orings to seal them and when I tighten them up, it won't let the gears engage and lock the hub. It finally dawns on me that the inner gear was too far out to properly engage with the outer gear. I was using the outer snap ring groove as shown in the attached pic, so the out gear had to be able to move further out in the hub to engage, and that's not really possible. So all these years, I've been barely engaging the gears in the hubs and that's where all the popping has come from. So after cleaning up and reinstalling MY hub, I bumped the inner gear in on the shaft and placed the snapring in the inner groove, and voila! Solid engagement. I only heard one pop Friday evening and all day Saturday.
Hope someone gets good use out of this.
I've been listening to my Spartan locker pop with every move of the steering wheel for "years" now, ever since I installed it a few years back.
Friday morning, Buckhorn North would deny me. On a certain rutted hill climb, which had also cost me an axle u joint at the first prerun I went to, the right front wheel quit pulling, and 3 wheel drive is just not enough to get up the hill.
So the guys I was with decided to swap my RF locking hub because mine just wasn't working. After I got back to the parking lot, I started investigating why. Fitz24 asked if there were two snap ring grooves on the stub shaft. I had no idea why. I've never even noticed the inner groove. Then it dawned on me.
For a couple years, I've been leaving the screws in the caps loose because I don't have the orings to seal them and when I tighten them up, it won't let the gears engage and lock the hub. It finally dawns on me that the inner gear was too far out to properly engage with the outer gear. I was using the outer snap ring groove as shown in the attached pic, so the out gear had to be able to move further out in the hub to engage, and that's not really possible. So all these years, I've been barely engaging the gears in the hubs and that's where all the popping has come from. So after cleaning up and reinstalling MY hub, I bumped the inner gear in on the shaft and placed the snapring in the inner groove, and voila! Solid engagement. I only heard one pop Friday evening and all day Saturday.
Hope someone gets good use out of this.