Would you run this?

[Derek33]

Bought some 4.56's for my 8.8 used. Got them off craigslist from a guy in Cali.

Box came today and found this:



Would you run these gears?

I could try to get my money back.... but I'm not sure if that will be possible.

Good ol' craigslist.

Derek

[ajmorell]

It's hard to see that, is it missing a chunk out of one of the teeth?

[BigDaveZJ]

There was a blurry picture of a ring gear in the box! OH NOES!!!!

Seriously though, I had to grind down one of the teeth on my 8.8 4.56 ring gear to get the cross pin in the carrier.

And used gears FTL anyways.

[Derek33]

i got some new pics on the way.

the top inside corner of the tooth has been chipped off.

Its a clean cut, however. Im just not sure if it will survive.

[BigDaveZJ]

Seriously though, I had to grind down one of the teeth on my 8.8 4.56 ring gear to get the cross pin in the carrier.

the top inside corner of the tooth has been chipped off.

Its a clean cut, however. Im just not sure if it will survive.

[Derek33]

here are some better pics.

I know i should have just gone with new gears, but works been slow.

Sorry Dave, I didnt see your post before i made my second one. I'm not sure if he had to grind down this tooth or if it chipped off. Either way, no cracks or burrs.

[ATL ZJ]

Charlie Wenzel strikes again... That's a pretty big chip. How many teeth make contact with 4.56s in an 8.8 gearset? And what's your wheeling style like?

[OverkillZJ]

That's a lot of tooth missing...

[BigDaveZJ]

That's about as much as I had to grind down on mine.

[Derek33]

Have you experienced any problems so far, Dave? Any extra noise?

[BigDaveZJ]

The gears have maybe 300 miles on them, mostly trail miles. If they did make any noise, I wouldn't be able to hear it anyways.

[ajmorell]

That's about as much as I had to grind down on mine.

Odd that you ground down the tooth on the ring, I thought people usually ground down the cross pin or bought a notched one?

[BigDaveZJ]

A notched one came with the gears, but still would not go in. And I had heard that the notched cross pin was a bit weaker than the standard pin.

[Derek33]

Did you use the notched cross pin after you ground down the gears?

[BigDaveZJ]

Nope, reused the original.

[Derek33]

sounds good.

I sent an email to the guy i bought these from. Hopefully he will get back to me. Maybe he just had to grind down this gear for the same reason you did.

Thanks for the help

[BigDaveZJ]

When you bolt it to the carrier, I'd test fit everything to make sure you get it lined up properly.

[chadjans]

Turn the flower on your camera.

[zj95maxx]

Mine looks like that too, had to grind it down to get the crosspin in and out like dave. Most people do it so they dont have to remove the ring gear to get the inside gears out

[MoonWorks]

You should be fine. Either the owner cut it down to fit a crosspin like others have said or he broke one and he smoothed it out. I would doubt that it would break that clean. Either way, with only one tooth broken you should be fine.

[dp96zj]

Just curious, how did he advertise them?? Did he tell you it was cut?

[Kraqa]

worse comes to worse take the burrs off the chip and run it.

[Derek33]

Just curious, how did he advertise them?? Did he tell you it was cut?

Nope not at all. Part of the reason i was so surprised. Luckily enough it's an intentional cut.