Thought I’d post up a pic of my project today. I’ve been on a defeating tour around my new Suzuki and the tour came to a climax with this mod. Okay so after removing diff (kinda hard, not too bad tho) remove third member. This requires long side axle removed. This is accomplished with a big ass hammer and careful swings. Use a piece of tubing or something that will let you bang close into the shaft so you don’t bend the ears on the flange.
Once out I applied air to the system so I could see what was going on. I couldn’t hear a leak but i don’t want the chance of a fail on here. I left the air applied while I tacked the parts together in the 4 locations around the carrier. You want to do this in fully assembled condition because otherwise you could weld it too far engaged and cause binding on assembly.
These parts are unknown metal and could be quite brittle so I used a silicon bronze fill wire. Placed 4 small welds. Screwdriver is pointing to one of the welds.
Replace parts, goop the two halves and re install. Don’t forget to put oil back in!
Anyway hope this helps someone as I found little info on it. The member recon was a great resource and got me going on it. I’ve heard some folks use a ring and install it in there but as a welder I chose this method as it seemed a lot easier.
