Help broken dana 35 bearing cap!

[cashmoney37]

Any body know were I can get a bearing cap for my 2000 mountaineer dana 35?
I was doing a gear swap and was doing the final install and I didnt have the.differental seated all the way and when I torqed my caps one broke in half. Any idea were I can get ahold of one?

 

[delexploder]

Salvage yard...and its not recommended ..it sucks but u should find another housing . We build alot of rears and its very very rare that we find caps that fit more than one rear. And you won't know till it starts making noise.

 

[rhauf]

ahh yes.. the bearing hole is machined with the cap on the housing.. so they are sort of a mated pair.. you could try your luck at another random cap, but it's likely it'll break too.

fwiw, i replaced a broken cap on a ford 9" rear, and the "fix" is still holding up (on my friends truck) im not saying its a good idea.. a new housing would be best.

 

[delexploder]

Yea the only ones we have been able to do this with have been 9inch and I think maybe its been twice and we have tons of them to choose from but so far no luck with the tinplate rears

 

[cashmoney37]

Is there really that much difference.between housings when gear sets.are so percise? I am geting a axel from a 95 with vacuum disconect. I am gona messure the caps and compare. I cant see beeing that much of a difference

 

[delexploder]

The gear sets are not very precise that's why they get shimmed but yea we are still talking in the thousandths and the housings are never perfect.

 

[cashmoney37]

Well wednsday the 95 housing will be here and I will do some camparing and measuring and I will make the best call of that, I will keep informed thank u

 

[IZwack]

Since we are talking about replacing the cap, maybe use the ones from a D35 Jeep rear axle? They are cast (iron?) and not aluminum so they shouldn't crack. A potential problem with this approach is that since it is a different material, it will expand at a different rate than the rest of the housing as the axle warms up. Anyways, just a thought.

 

[delexploder]

Hows it goin?

 

[cashmoney37]

I just received my other axle today. I am going to work on it in the morning.

 

[cashmoney37]

Heres what I did. The new capwas thousands of inch off, the cap rocked back in forth the tinyest bit. So I took my grinder with a flapper disk and took very little material away till it fit tight. No play so now just need to put axle back in truck thats the easy part