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Title: hubs
Post by: 91tracker on July 16, 2009, 09:10:56 PM

i have 1991 tracker with auto locking hubs one shit the bed and have a friend with a 1990 tracker with manual locking hubs will they work in my tracker ??? ???

Title: Re: hubs
Post by: Drone637 on July 16, 2009, 09:56:20 PM

Yep.  As long as he doesn't catch you swapping them.  :D

Title: Re: hubs
Post by: Lindenmooch on July 16, 2009, 10:54:34 PM

Quote from: Drone637 on July 16, 2009, 09:56:20 PM

Yep.  As long as he doesn't catch you swapping them.  :D

lmao! 

Title: Re: hubs
Post by: djlantis57 on July 17, 2009, 12:54:46 AM

So i've heard, so will Aisins off Samurais.  Might want to verify that.  A shop worker at Calmini told me that, since the front of his Tracker has Samurai Aisins from a junkyard

Title: Re: hubs
Post by: Rhinoman on July 17, 2009, 05:24:07 AM

Quote from: djlantis57 on July 17, 2009, 12:54:46 AM

So i've heard, so will Aisins off Samurais.  Might want to verify that.  A shop worker at Calmini told me that, since the front of his Tracker has Samurai Aisins from a junkyard

You usually need to fit a thick gasket/shim under the Aisins to allow for the thickness of the circlip, the Sammy has no circlip there.

Title: Re: hubs
Post by: zukimoo on July 17, 2009, 03:13:34 PM

there is a mod needed to put the samurai ones on a tracker....not sure what to do but they are not direct swap. You can put the tracker onto the samurai.

A few years back I put some new hubs on our land cruiser plow truck....a few weeks later the 4x4 didn't work...I looked and someone had stolen the center gear out of both hubs.

Title: Re: hubs
Post by: ack on July 19, 2009, 05:17:52 AM

TracKick to TracKick swaps will work.

After a lot of examination with my Samurai and TracKick fleet, I do not recommend Samurai to TracKick hub swaps.

They require precision modifications involving the use of machining equipment not available to the average backyard mechanic.

If those modifications are not done, you risk creating a gap at the inside hub seal  - the one on the back of the hub assembly where the CV shaft enters the hub - that will easily let dirt/water/mud into the hub bearing.  This, of course, wil drastically shorten the bearing life and result in you spending lots of money!

It is FAR CHEAPER to find a set of TracKick hubs (manual or automatic) for your TracKick than to "adapt"  Samurai hubs for the purpose.

Title: Re: hubs
Post by: phloop on July 19, 2009, 09:47:08 PM

There is a red neck way of putting Sami hubs on a kick. You need to remove the snap ring holding the axle on the kick and then bolt the inner hub gear to the axle. I can find a right up I did once if it's needed. And doing it this way does not creat the gap Ack was talking about.

Title: Re: hubs
Post by: Ether on July 20, 2009, 09:57:00 PM

i have a 94 tracker with locking hubs. yea they will fit. (bolt on no prob)