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anthony1
06-14-2010, 01:48 PM
Anyone bought Ring & Pinion from Trail Gear before. They are a lot cheaper than Yukon. I wonder if it's made in China?

I need to replace my 5.29 8.0 rear diff.

Thanks
slosurfer
06-14-2010, 06:12 PM
My rear diff has a trail gear 5.29 R&P that was set up by a toyota mastertech (I bought the whole elocker diff from him and he set up the gears), and it's been fine so far. It hasn't seen really hard slow trails, but it's seen it's share of being locked and launched in the air...
YotaFun
06-14-2010, 06:41 PM
sorry to OP just trying to get a little clarification,

Chris, that rear was the one from my friend out here right?
And its an e-locker rear right?
slosurfer
06-14-2010, 09:07 PM
Not sure if he was your friend or not. I believe he's a mastertech in PA somewhere and I found it over at ttora. He's "86 Toy" on ttora
YotaFun
06-15-2010, 04:41 AM
Yeah that's marc lol cool
corax
06-15-2010, 04:42 AM
Not sure if he was your friend or not. I believe he's a mastertech in PA somewhere and I found it over at ttora. He's "86 Toy" on ttora


That's the same guy that set up the Yukons in my elocker - he did really good work and was easy to do business with
anthony1
06-15-2010, 09:10 AM
Thanks for the feed back.
I think I blew the pinion of the Yukon because the cable e-locker got engaged by accident while I was driving on the street.
I have a Toyota dealer head mechanic set it up last time for 100.00. I'm hoping he can still do it for the same.

Thanks again.
corax
06-15-2010, 04:42 PM
What's your truck doing?

Hope it's just the pinion or ring gear - I've heard reports (and seen pics) of the left side gear in the e-locker breaking. This is the side gear that locks the axle shaft to the differential case (essentially making it a spool) and I've always suspected that those which broke were due shock loading from being engaged while moving at speed.
anthony1
06-15-2010, 05:57 PM
I thought it was just wheel bearings or something more simple. I found the cause of the noise by jacking up the axle then put the truck in first gear. I stop one tire then the other. That's how I know it's in the diff. I think the locker is fine. The conclusion of the locker engaging came later...what else could it be? I was just driving down the street. I was doing about 45mph.