[{"id":161998602324,"handle":"axle-products","title":"Axle Products","updated_at":"2021-08-02T14:20:27-05:00","body_html":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eMotobilt offers many different products for the DIY fabricator, professional fabricator \/ installer and DIY person bolting parts on at home. In the Axle Products section you will find products for various axle models to include suspension parts, heavy duty diff covers and more. Feel free to shop by the specific axle type or by product type including heavy duty axle trusses. 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I have personally had something like this happen. During my college years I had a full width axle Jeep YJ for an everyday driver. I backed into a big rock one weekend and bent the factory diff cover into the ring gear. You can imagine what happened, the ring gear rubbed a hole through the diff cover. As luck would have it I found out about the failure an hour into a 3 hour drive back to college. If there had been heavy duty diff covers available back then the problem would have never occurred. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI started another company (Blue Torch Fabworks) in 2001 and one of the first products I designed and offered was fabricated heavy duty diff covers. The diff covers we developed back then spread across the offroad market quickly. Now many different companies manufacture similar covers. Some claim all sorts of things about their covers. I have been building them for close to 20 years. I stand behind the diff covers we manufacture here at Motobilt. 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If you can weld and want to build your own diff cover, purchase the Ford 8.8 DIY DIFF Cover. Motobilt DIY Diff Covers are the same as ourfully-weldeddiff covers, but sold as a kit including the pre-formed pieces and hardware you will need to complete the DIY project yourself. We have included assembly instructions as well.
Why change out your diff cover? We do get asked this question on occasion. The factory diff covers are too thin for abuse on the trail. One of the common factory diff cover failures occurs when the edge gets peeled up from a rock sliding across the diff. Peeling can cause the differential fluid to leak out unknowingly and the result could be damaging the gears when you hit the road to drive home.
Another failure of factory diff covers are from bending the cover into the ring gear which rubs a hole through. The result here is the same with differential fluid leaking out. One other failure is actually puncturing the factory diff cover with a sharp rock. Again resulting in differential fluid leaking out. Hopefully this explains the need for a heavy duty diff cover. The Motobilt Heavy Duty Fabricated Diff Covers address the failures I have mentioned to ensure your ring and pinion gear sets are well protected.
All Motobilt Diff Covers include a LIFETIME WARRANTY from trail damage and manufacture defect. We cannot warranty DIY Diff Covers being welded incorrectly.
As with all Motobilt DIY builder parts, an experienced welder is recommended.
Installation Note:We strongly recommend tacking the pieces together and test fitting it onto the axle before finish welding. We also recommend using pipe thread tape for the fill plug.
Specifications
1/4 inch thick steel plate shell
3/8" thick steel diff ring
In-house laser and CNC press brake
Sold as kit
All parts are shipped bare metal and will need to be painted before install
