So some things never change... My son has a very nice jeep wrangler that he has been making more off road capable as the money comes avaliable for it. Last week he decided to build some tube fenders here at the shop. On his way home the jeep started making some wild sounds from the underbelly of the beast. After a day of tightening all his fancy long arm suspension, track bars, etc. it was still noisy. Come to find out the spiders in his rear end were trying to get out! So I took the next day off to walk him through the spider game...

With Jeeps the hot set up is to use the heavy duty stuff if possible so some time ago we located a narrowed 60 that needs mountswelded on and a matching unit for the front. I called John down the street at Border Parts and he had the spiders in stock so we bought a set. After some wrenching we discovered that some one had changed out his jeep Dana 30 diff for an earlier model than what should be in his 2000 wrangler. So the option now is go to the expense of buying a front matching dana 60 for $1000.00, repair an under rated Dana 30 with a new carrier, spiders, for around $300.00 or go back to the 50's and make it a lincoln locker for free. Needless to say he was up for welding so lincoln locker is was. Everything worked out just fine, and the look on his face when he pulled out of the driveway was worth the effort. Think the dana 60 is his new priority. LOL

After it was all over I went to you tube and darn if building lincoln lockers isnt all over the place. Guess the drifters are doing it as well? Hearing that Jeep cherping down the street brought back a lot of memories and a big smile to my face. KIDS!