My cracked aluminum housing is for sale, $13,000, get the cracked housing with the rest for free!!! LOL

Went out for a little ride this weekend with the club at Kanrocks and tryed to climb a slight incline with a rocky top, I spun the front tires. The front shifted back and forth, right to left. Once I climbed up, parked on the side for some photos of the others coming up. Then noticed the front dripping!!!! Crawled underneath and saw the crack going forward to back. Drove back to the parking lot and parked it for the rest of the day.

Looked at it today, to clean it off, and seal it. Found that the housing is probably paper thin as there is a 'piece' missing. Then I pushed on it. It rises and falls quite easy by hand. The mounts appear to be too soft. The pinion rises up and the top of the housing compressed into the cracks. So if the pinion is rotating, I can see how the deflection of the stock bushings would make the housing split itself, even without a load on the axles.

Daammmnnnn, those pics are huge.

Looks nasty... I suppose that implies an upgrade?
Lucky mine is steel

Well, priced out some things for a steel housing swap or SAS. I'm wanting to get it all together before Zukimelt in July, ~8 weeks away. Don't have a whole lotta time at home off work hours, so I've decided to go stock steel housing.

Would prefer to do a SAS, however, I would need to swap to a steering box, fab suspension links, get a proper diff with near same track width, (may have to match rear axle also), prefer gear/locker option, etc. Looking at upwards of $2000-$4000 easily.

Swap in a Anvil, but no one has tested the waters on this option yet. $590 + shipping, +$ unknown extras. Unknown length of cv's necessary.

Search car-part.com and found an 01 XL7 steel front housing in NY. $500. Stock, will bolt right in. Just swap out my center chunk. Comes with the 4.30 5-sp R&P and driver's long inner shaft. Should be here in 5 days or less. Resale is a plus.

Would have preferred the Anvil as I'll be lifting the front with spacers.

In review of my aluminum, I think I'll add another brace to the driver's side. The rack and pinion mount is quite near to the driver's frame mount. Should be simple.

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