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10-31-2004 | 01:40 AM

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Sow&Steady

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From: Va Va Voom!

Re: Dogbone Pin Mod

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Originally posted by InitialD
Since today is technically very much Friday on some parts of the world, here is a pic of the mod done on the dogbone pins.

The dogbone side that goes into the rear diff outdrive gets the longer side of the pin (3 x 11.7 mm). The other side of the dogbone is with stock pin (3 x 9.7 mm).

The longer pin is said to be more prone to wearing the diff outdrive. Time will tell as I've yet to test them.

The 3 x 9.7 mm stock pin on the bottom right, you could see that the tip is pretty flattened out after a while. If you see this on your dogbones, do not panic. You can resuse the pins...

Just take a vice, a hammer and something sharp and pointed so that you could use it to hammer the pin out of the dogbone. After getting the pin out, you could turn it 90 degrees and hammer the pin back in again to resuse it. The flattened and worned out part should no more be in contact with the surface of the outdrive and to the outdrives, the dogbone pin would look like new.

Good mod D.

Serpent will probably come out with the same design but with either Hody's spring steel or their own OEM spring steel. If they don't plan to then Julius will read this say "Hey! That's a good idea!" and then go knock on Pieter's door. Right Julius?

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