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Good evening all,
Please forgive me as I’ve only had an hour each week to pick at this D44 rebuild. It’s been a very slow process. Anyhow, I saw an interesting video with a tech from ARB. He explained why the seal housing on the D44 needs to float because the carrier journal moves as there’s torque placed on the gears. The seal housing needs to move with it to preserve the seals themselves. A lot of things made sense when I heard that. It still didn’t answer the question of how to keep it from rotating forward and pulling on the copper air line. It doesn’t get secured under the bearing cap.
If I can break away tomorrow I’m going to call ARB. As I’m enjoying some heat during my dinner break at work, I thought I’d make a post for discussion. I only found a similar post for a 9” which doesn’t answer the question either. Thanks. Hope everyone’s got those wood stoves fired up this week.
Please forgive me as I’ve only had an hour each week to pick at this D44 rebuild. It’s been a very slow process. Anyhow, I saw an interesting video with a tech from ARB. He explained why the seal housing on the D44 needs to float because the carrier journal moves as there’s torque placed on the gears. The seal housing needs to move with it to preserve the seals themselves. A lot of things made sense when I heard that. It still didn’t answer the question of how to keep it from rotating forward and pulling on the copper air line. It doesn’t get secured under the bearing cap.
If I can break away tomorrow I’m going to call ARB. As I’m enjoying some heat during my dinner break at work, I thought I’d make a post for discussion. I only found a similar post for a 9” which doesn’t answer the question either. Thanks. Hope everyone’s got those wood stoves fired up this week.
