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Tech Forum => Workshop => Topic started by: lefty on May 03, 2006, 12:23:23 PM

Title: Quick axle Question...?
Post by: lefty on May 03, 2006, 12:23:23 PM
I'm looking at diff guards from specialist leisure on ebay. There's one for the Dana 35 and one for the Dana 44, anyone know which axles will be on my '97 XJ??  :?

Cheers
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Post by: Anonymous on May 03, 2006, 12:38:02 PM
D35!!

& those diff guards seem very expensive to me..... :?
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Post by: lefty on May 03, 2006, 12:38:51 PM
Both of 'em?
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Post by: Anonymous on May 03, 2006, 12:41:07 PM
sorry iain, d35 rear & d30 front.... :oops:
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Post by: lefty on May 03, 2006, 12:43:44 PM
Thanks mate.

Anyone had any experience of these things?
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Post by: Anonymous on May 03, 2006, 12:50:57 PM
never really felt the need for em, but they have their place.....

those you are looking at, i hear they pick up all sorts of sticks, rocks etc.....which can do more harm than good... :?
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Post by: lefty on May 03, 2006, 12:53:16 PM
Good point me old mucker  :o
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Post by: chrisjones on May 03, 2006, 01:40:13 PM
If you've got to have diff guards, go for the warn type that are made out of plate.
The most use they are going to be is as a slider so you don't get hung up on the diff.
Unless you're into serious rock crawling, I don't see the point of the cage type, it's just someting else to snagg on stuff.

Just my thoughts. :wink:
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Post by: Anonymous on May 03, 2006, 02:01:47 PM
:imwitstupid:
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Post by: lefty on May 03, 2006, 02:22:45 PM
Good advice fellas, thanks
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Post by: Mike Pavelin on May 03, 2006, 04:23:47 PM
Got a Rusy's guard on the front, Made of steel plate and very tough. Didn't bother with the rear as I tend to drive everywhere forwards.