Originally posted by Bender:
Let me clarify for a sec...when i say steering problem, I don't mean the typical in 4WD type. I mean its hard to keep it straight, as it wants to steer it's self.
This is going to make for some almost impossible driving, when the snow flies, and I am on the back country roads going home or to work. This will for sure cause me to end up in a ditch.
I really have to try to go straight by steering hard to the opposite side she wants to go. When she lets go, she almost locks the other way. Which could cause me to slide unpredictably.
When the X was new, I never had these problems with it in 4HI or LO.
I hope that is a more descriptive explanation.
So are you saying that it was okay before the diff swap and now it isn't?
Sounds like you're thinking along the right lines and you have a gear mismatch problem... the '01 diff should have 4.6 gears in it and your rear probably has the newer 4.9's.
Do you still have the ring and pinion from your old diff? If not, those suckers are a bit expensive... $450 at 4x4parts.
There are two ways to go on the installation.... 1) The 'right' way - which is best left to a shop if you don't know what you're doing. It takes some special tools, careful measurement (to get the gears to mesh correctly) and fine adjustment with shims.
2) The "aw f#$% it" way. Which is to just slap the new gears in there using the exact same shims, spacers etc that are on there now - which will *probably* work just fine... but you never know
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