Thread: 8.8" rebuild?
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Old 04-03-2013, 11:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Conanski
On a shoe string budget go to the junkyard and collect the clutch packs from another 8.8.. or two, and use the best of them to rebuild yours. In the pics you posted you can see that some of the friction disk(those with the tabs) are worn unevenly, that suggests that these were incorrectly installed. To correct this uneven wear put a pressure disk next to the spider gear and stack the clutches with alternating friction and pressure plates instead of the factory stack sequence, this will put an extra friction plate in each stack which will make the whole stack a little bigger and that will increase preload on the S spring and both of those things will improve LS action.. significantly.
I'm assuming this can be done with the first kit I posted a link to?

I'd rather pay the extra bit of money in that area and have new, and KNOW there's no uneven wear, etc right off the bat.

I do appreciate the tidbit of info on the clutch packs.