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Thanks,please keep us posted we are looking forward to them.Any idea of price?

welcome,i see you must have been thinking of a joyner since you joined last month.Jamboree is at Hanksville Utah the end of June.Hope you can make it.

no issues at all.Is it possible yours isnt giving it enough travel or maybe too much??

rocmoc, Only had mine out once with the controller on.Lenny had an earlier post as a way to compare so i will try to do something along his suggestion next time out.

glad to hear that.I have been checking around and thats about a $60 bearing.

Mine already had the manual lever when i purchased it.Looks like they installed it after arriving here for assembly cause where the mechanism was installed next to the diff locker levers area where they welded it on was not painted.I have heard of people having problems with their electric actuator and thought about the door lock actuators on cars.I installed some on a vehicle of mine some time ago and if i remember they seemed like they would be powerfull enough and cheap.

kinarfi, I was looking at your photos and noticed one of the sealed bearing with part #6912Z and $268.22,is that what you paid for it?

Curious here,what kind of noise did it make? did it continue the whole drive back?

Mauy Thai1, Welcome.See you in June.

I have the same question only for my Trooper,One of my lights went out and local stores dont carry the bulbs.This is for the headlights with the high/low beam. Thanks,

Well I got the spider gears out(thanks to Lenny&kinarfi)and found more aluminum shavings and a couple chunks of aluminum wedged in the spider gears(see photo).Gears themselves show now sign of damage.It really looks like someone went in,replaced all the gears,installed what they call the upgraded bolts and slaped it back together without cleaning out all the inside of the case from the damage that had occurred.Remember this is what i was told was a rebuilt and upgraded diff when i bought it and has not been installed.

I dont know why she would be upset,shes wearing her make up...

Very cool..

Okay there has to be more then 7 members wanting to go.Remember as said before EVERYONE IS WELCOME,dont have to own a Trooper or a Joyner.I see the 7th person to vote has a suggestion for location.How do we find out where that might be?

put the dog collar on this and it looks just like me(LOL) What the heck,heres the wife too...

be real nice if the sxs was a trooper.

HELP!!!! I must be missing something here.I tried what you suggested and nothing.The other pin hardly budges and it too seems like its hanging up on something.Didnt have much time and only spent a few minutes on it but will try again later.

Sounds good,maybe have tee shirts made up(lol) when i first read your post about the dinosaur find i was thinking Lenny and Kinarfi had been spotted up there(lol)

Dinosaur Discovery in Hanksville maybe not safe there...(LOL)

I will vote twice if you can promise i wont still be a pinhead afterwards Where is everyone going to be staying? boondocking? campground with hook ups? I know Lenny mentioned an area he thought would be big enough for all of us but is that the place we will meet?

I have always disconnected the battery.That way no chance anything may have been hooked up by passing the switch.

havent opened up to look at spiders,I did notice small screw was not even screwed in to apply pressure on pin.After taking screw out should pin come out easily? I took screw out and attempted to pull the pin,it moved about 1/2" and stoped like something else holding it so didnt go further.I plan on getting new bearings and hopefully a kit from Lenny but have to wait till my allowance will let me.Just glad i am finding this out now and not when i might have needed the diff.

A year ago in March I came across an add for some Joyner parts that were being sold in the Pheonix area.I was going to be down that way for our annual trip to see some Major League pre season baseball so i called and learned the person selling the parts was a former joyner employee we all know who was then out of work because of joyner closing their doors.Once down there i contacted him again and went by his house and purchased some items from him and one of the items i was told to be an upgraded diff.Once i got back home to So Cal i packed the diff away in a box and placed it in a cabinet in my garage along with the other items.After recent discussions about diffs i decided this past Sunday to bring it out and take a look.After pulling the oil fill plug and looking inside all i could see was the corner of head of the bolts, not enough to tell what they were so i split the case to see inside and was very surprised.Rust corrosion on the bearing,and gears.while spinning the bearing i can feel a flat spot on them.I also found some chunks out of the inside of the case as well as shavings.The gears appear to be new with no visable wear(just corrosion)on them.The bolts are 8.8 and do have the locking tabs.From what it looks like they had a bad diff that was returned and went in and replaced the gears,bolts and used the locking tabs then slaped it back together without even cleaning the aluminum shavings from the damage that had been done.The one sealed bearing was not even completly seated and the shims are corroded as well.See the photos below. My link

yep but like i said before isnt there passage that oil goes down to crankcase like when oil is added to oil fill it drains straight down to oil pan?