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5.12 onto Sierra carrier (ring for cross pins?)

Posted: Sun 26 Sep, 2010 10:33 pm
by christover1
If fitting 5:12's from Vitara carrier onto a Sierra carrier, do I need to do something to stop diff pins falling out?
Searching around says yes and no depending where I look :roll:
Will be using Spartan locker into Sierra 4 pin carrier, with Vitara ring and pinion into GVsteel diff...onto my Vitara front end
It appears that it is a 2 pin Sierra carrier in there anyway, not the 3 pin I'm told should be in it.. funnnn

christover

Re: 5.12 onto Sierra carrier (ring for cross pins?)

Posted: Mon 27 Sep, 2010 1:13 pm
by mika
just found this thread http://www.zukikrawlers.com/showthread. ... wap&page=2 last night as i want to fit 4.6 or 5.12 vit gears. Might be of some help to you too. Spidertrax no longer lists the retaining ring so not sure where you could get one. Steve was explaining to me another way but i'm not sure if I understood 100%

Re: 5.12 onto Sierra carrier (ring for cross pins?)

Posted: Mon 27 Sep, 2010 1:40 pm
by christover1
lowrange offroad have the rings listed on their site...
http://www.lowrangeoffroad.com/suzuki/s ... -cans.html
I will have to wait till pay day, if I decide on that option.
I checked out my spare diff, it was in a vit, but is a sierra 2 pin carrier,
it don't have any obvious things done to stop the pins coming out.
I can see it could spin round and hit the pinion gear if it did come loose