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Krash80
04-22-2005, 01:57 AM
Since no one makes a diff cover for a 14-bolt that's shaved like a porn star, i had to make my own.

Started off with a 3/8" thick plate i scavenged from my neighbor's yard and clamped a stock cover to it and torched out around it.


http://www.mallcrawlin.com/tech/diffcover/DSCN2118.JPG




Ended up with this after drilling 11 holes and chopping the bottom to match the diff:


http://www.mallcrawlin.com/tech/diffcover/DSCN2119.JPG



Torched out the inside and did some grinding to clear the gear and the carrier bolts:



http://www.mallcrawlin.com/tech/diffcover/DSCN2120.JPG




Then cut a 3x13" piece out of the 3/8" plate, heated it in 2 spots and bent it w/ a hammer to make a thick hoop to protect the ring gear, then started cutting plates out of 1/4" to fill in the sides:



http://www.mallcrawlin.com/tech/diffcover/DSCN2121.JPG




spent a long time cutting out triangles out of 1/4" on the bandsaw and milling the edges of them to get a perfect 3-D puzzle of a diff cover, then welded the crap together and bolted it in place...



http://www.mallcrawlin.com/tech/diffcover/DSCN2122.JPG




only to find that i warped the living crap out of the whole mess while welding it. I knew it would deflect a little, but we're talking 3/16" deflection in the 3/8" plate in less than 1.5" distance! So needless to say it didn't sit flush on the housing at all, not to mention the hoop that covered the ring gear now hit...so off to the milling machine to save the day by making the surface perfectly flat again...this took a long ass time:



http://www.mallcrawlin.com/tech/diffcover/DSCN2129.JPG



ahhh...much better!



http://www.mallcrawlin.com/tech/diffcover/DSCN2133.JPG




but still had to notch out the hoop to clear the ring gear, and after the motor burned up in my 7$ angle grinder, i had to resort to the milling machine again.




http://www.mallcrawlin.com/tech/diffcover/DSCN2135.JPG



The final product all blingitty bling in silver metallic rustoleum: Krash's Kustom Kover ready for installation:



http://www.mallcrawlin.com/tech/diffcover/DSCN2138.JPG



I'm going to try it just as it is on my 11 bolt diff and i'm hoping it won't leak. I even left the bottom part where there's no fasteners a few thousandths higher than the rest of the mating surface, hoping that it will press extra tight on the bottom of the diff when bolted in place. If it leaks (read: when it leaks) i'll take it back off and will add a couple small bolts to the bottom to snug it up better.

Nordic1
04-22-2005, 02:01 AM
KKK? :smt046

Sweet cover

RufftyTuffty
04-22-2005, 11:14 AM
Nice fabbing....flux wire welding ehh :mrgreen: ....are you using a Readywelding?

One thought...will you get enough clamping force to stop the lube dripping out the bottom? maybe put a lip on it?

~Mike

Krash80
04-22-2005, 11:46 AM
Nice fabbing....flux wire welding ehh :mrgreen: ....are you using a Readywelding?

One thought...will you get enough clamping force to stop the lube dripping out the bottom? maybe put a lip on it?

~Mike


nope...7014 AC stick welds! :mrgreen:

i have no idea whether it'll clamp tight enough to seal or not, but when i machined the mating surface, i left the bottom lip a few thousandths higher than the rest so that it would be pressed extra tight against the bottom of the housing. We'll see.

Cue-Ball
04-22-2005, 12:47 PM
That looks awesome.

Jeepinparrothead
04-22-2005, 12:54 PM
:prayer:

Forwheelin49
04-22-2005, 01:12 PM
krash that looks bongproof, awesome :weedman:

Krash80
04-22-2005, 02:26 PM
krash that looks bongproof, awesome :weedman:

i know you meant to write "bombproof," but wait, i do have "bong-arms," so ....ahh crap...wait a minute....better go get :weedman: so i can make some sense of this!

at least you guys didn't all get your panties in a wad over the Krash's Kustom Kover "KKK," ...a bunch of guys on pirate went nuts about racist this and that. The letters were a joke, but i might just keep them on there now to piss off the liberal hippies.

OverkillZJ
04-22-2005, 02:40 PM
krash that looks bongproof, awesome :weedman:

i know you meant to write "bombproof," but wait, i do have "bong-arms," so ....ahh crap...wait a minute....better go get :weedman: so i can make some sense of this!

at least you guys didn't all get your panties in a wad over the Krash's Kustom Kover "KKK," ...a bunch of guys on pirate went nuts about racist this and that. The letters were a joke, but i might just keep them on there now to piss the liberal hippies.

I like the cover. It kicks ass. But the KKK isn't one of the smarter things you've done. Some people have a right to be pissed about it.

ATL ZJ
04-22-2005, 03:06 PM
Some fella with a jerry curl is gonna fired up and drill holes in your meats if you keep those letters on there.

BMRisko
04-22-2005, 03:30 PM
Looks badass Ron. I doubt Ron really cares what people think about the KKK...I think that rocks! :finga:

TrojanMan
04-22-2005, 03:43 PM
little bit of the right stuff and she shouldn't leak.

Looks damn good :partyman:

Swamp boy
04-22-2005, 03:49 PM
Krash Kustom Kovers ... There is a sticker begging to be made....:mrgreen:
Awesome Job.... Looks very good.....

nate
04-22-2005, 03:52 PM
KKK... I know some people that'd walk over and shake your hand :mrgreen:

Jim311
04-22-2005, 07:19 PM
You might offend all the black 4 wheelers....




Oh wait.

Swamp boy
04-22-2005, 08:26 PM
:smt046


:bling:

dasVettemeister
04-23-2005, 04:19 PM
Well Ron, we discussed it at our meeting last night, and have decided that we will give Krash's Kustom Kover our seal of approval. The Grand Wizard just has one request: add a Confederate flag to the Grand. Here's a pic of me with the boys.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/dasvettemeister/T790871A.jpg

Yeah, I know, not PC. I've got your PC right here. :finga:

Edit: For those of you that are too fucking stupid to figure it out, THIS IS A JOKE!!!!!!!!!

Jim311
04-23-2005, 06:08 PM
I'm glad the mods haven't gotten butthurt about this. Most sites would have locked a thread like this a long time ago :snakeman:

Krash80
04-23-2005, 07:28 PM
I'm glad the mods haven't gotten butthurt about this. Most sites would have locked a thread like this a long time ago :snakeman:

The funny part is that I AM a mod! :mrgreen:
muhhahahahhahahh!!
muuuhahahhahahah!!!!!
muuuauhahahahhahaahah!!!!!!!


Dale-
ROTFLMAO>..that's just too funny. I do like the confederate flag idea though...was actually thinking of painting the ZJ like the General Lee.

zjeepin
05-04-2005, 04:19 PM
krash, im lookin at dropping a 14b in my rig. im wondering what is the width on yours? Im trying like hell to find one of the 63" ones. Im also interested in what a full width one looks like under a zj. anyway, bad azz cover man, that took some time.

JOE
05-04-2005, 09:39 PM
looks really good man

JOE
05-04-2005, 09:41 PM
KKK... I know some people that'd walk over and shake your hand :mrgreen:

your a fucking idiot

TrojanMan
05-04-2005, 11:09 PM
I'm glad the mods haven't gotten butthurt about this. Most sites would have locked a thread like this a long time ago :snakeman:

The funny part is that I AM a mod! :mrgreen:
muhhahahahhahahh!!
muuuhahahhahahah!!!!!
muuuauhahahahhahaahah!!!!!!!


Dale-
ROTFLMAO>..that's just too funny. I do like the confederate flag idea though...was actually thinking of painting the ZJ like the General Lee.

I have a confederate flag on my 8.5' whip.. its no general lee but it gets the job done.

BMRisko
05-05-2005, 12:22 AM
KKK... I know some people that'd walk over and shake your hand :mrgreen:

your a fucking idiot

Didn't Howell used to be really big in terms of the KKK?

On another note, I was reading up on some crazy, supposed hauntings in Howell. Pretty cool town... :supz:

paulkeith
05-05-2005, 12:26 AM
KKK... I know some people that'd walk over and shake your hand :mrgreen:

your a fucking idiot

that's not what your grammar said

TrojanMan
05-05-2005, 12:43 AM
KKK... I know some people that'd walk over and shake your hand :mrgreen:

your a fucking idiot

that's not what your grammar said

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/forumfun/misc16.jpg

OverkillZJ
05-05-2005, 12:43 AM
This threads about a sweet diff cover that has three letters on it. If it goes further off track towards racist comments, there's a good chance that one of the admins (read: me) might get annoyed and edit it all out and stop hosting the pic of the finished product.

Please keep it tech.

paulkeith
05-05-2005, 02:38 AM
so is it leaking?

Swamp boy
05-05-2005, 02:47 AM
yeah.. Hows it holding up??

JOE
05-05-2005, 12:23 PM
:finga: :finga: :finga: :finga: :finga: :finga: :finga:

LouisianaZJ
05-05-2005, 04:25 PM
i want a milling machine, that would be straight pimpin

ALWJ
05-05-2005, 10:10 PM
Nice work... That's way overkill :mrgreen: I personally don't have a problem with the letters, but I'd be afraid of parking in the wrong neighborhood. It's just asking for trouble. I know we're supposed to keep it tech, but I'd hate to see a bitchen jeep get burnt to the ground cause of an inside joke that someone didn't get. You could always put some new letters on it :mrgreen:
http://www.supermotors.org/getfile/202263/fullsize/MoonRocks_March05_0095s.jpg

Krash80
05-09-2005, 04:58 AM
^^^^
nice looking WJ.



I have the diff all buttoned up with "the right stuff" (friggin paid 14$ for a little can of it!!!), and i seriously doubt it's gonna leak, but since i haven't filled it yet i still don't know. I'll be sure to update this when i finally do fill it and have driven it a bit.

To whoever asked a couple pages back about the width...
my 14b is a Cab and Chassis (C&C) version and is 63" wide. If it's the SRW version it would be 67" wide. If you want the 63" wide one, they're super easy to find in the boneyards...just look under any chevy truck (tow truck, box truck, flatbed, utility truck) and odds are real good it'll have the narrow version of the 14b under it. Mine came from a 1973 chevy dually tow truck...it was actually the old wrecker that the owner of the yard used to run his business with...he couldn't believe i had him flip the thing over and had him take the axle out of it so i could put it in a jeep. :mrgreen:

about the letters...as i mentioned before it was a joke, and it stood for Krash's Kustom Kover to all you racist wannabe's. :finga: but i took the letters off anyway and painted the cover black cause it looked retarded in silver with all the rest of my undercarriage black...looked like a bad attempt at bling.