Posi Traction / Rearend

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Jul 4, 2010 | 03:55 PM

Alvinmac

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Posi Traction / Rearend

If a vehicle does'nt have positive traction, is that a matter of changing gearing in the rearend or does the entire axle has to be replaced?

Jul 4, 2010 | 04:01 PM

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it's in the gearing per say, you can weld the gears together, install a limited slip, a locker, an air/cable actuated locker, but you don't have to change the whole axle

Jul 4, 2010 | 04:03 PM

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Both are do-able, just a question of money really. Gear sets or lockers run about as much as a used axle at a junk yard. I'm all about recycling and saving $$$ so i'd go the junkyard route.

Jul 4, 2010 | 04:14 PM

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Thanks for info.

Jul 4, 2010 | 04:58 PM

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You'll be changing the differential carrier not the gears or the axles.

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Jul 4, 2010 | 05:06 PM

Alvinmac

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I was just riding a post on Ford Muscle that was explaining that. Thanks for clarification.

Jul 4, 2010 | 05:52 PM

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its a pain to set up the carrier, and its expensive to pay a shop to do it. For that reason, I think a lot of people just swap the whole axle when they find one with the gears they want in it.