Hey everybody Rylis Productions here. I'm gonna do an unboxing of my
Axles for the kit that I had sent out to dr. Diff
a couple of weeks back before Thanksgiving
and just got it back today the
Box is still sealed
So we're going to open it up and see what's inside
I sent him out to Dr. Diff so that
They could be upgraded with his
3/8 retainer kit
This is the retainer
The OEM retainer on Cuda stripped out and I couldn't thread it in
Okay, so he did press the model say here's one of the axles
That's is the
This one is the driver side I
Had
Om tapered bearing is installed in there so you can see
The
The 3/8 plate it's a lot thicker. So it looks pretty cool
The other
Axle came from the CUDA
so
Yeah, pretty beefy
Comes with those that's a thick plate I was way bigger than what was installed in my previous video. So I'm really happy with that
And then there's a box so these are just probably gaskets or something
He sent me some new
Seals I've already pressed these in so I'll just save them for the future
Okay, he sent me some more gasket seals these are great made in u.s. These are the same ones
I'm gonna use them to CUDA. These are brand new
So I'll save these for the Challenger project
it's always good to have spares anyways of the
Oh
These are for the flange you're gonna I'm gonna need to install these because since the
Since the
Retainers a lot thicker I have to knock out old bolts from the flange and you saw these longer ones
so I know what these are for and it has a
It has a locking retainer clip
Has this locking retainer here yeah, this is a longer bolt you have to knock out the
Ones on the flange on the axle housing and then they come with locking nuts
so these are much better my old bolts are all worn out and stripped anyway, so I'm glad they cast sent me these so
Yeah, hit up. Dr. Diff
Cass Eslick
Dr. Diff
On his website and he hooked you up with the good stuff so
Yeah, well film the rest of it when were installing the onto the CUDA
So the first step in installing, dr. Diffs
3/8 billet retainer kit is to replace the
axle
retainer bolts with his longer bolts that he supplies so I'm gonna
Install these right now knock these went out and then we'll go from there
So once you knock out the knurled bolts that are in the
OEM housing, you put the doctored if bolt in I kind of don't like these because they're
they're not they're not in the rolls and just
Get out solid in the axle, but I guess so we're fine. The next step is to put the metal gasket with the ridge
Towards the axle opening so that's very important so
The next step is to install the
Caliper bracket the foam gasket then the axle the retainer and then you have to
Hit the retainer
so
I'm sorry
I hit the axle so that it seats the bearing I use a little mini sledge hammer and then just tap it in there
It has to seat the bearing has to shock the axle into the thrust button inside this
center section
once you have that down you have to start from the bottom of
the retainer
The bottom bolt and then bolt that up in a crisscross pattern in a star pattern
To 35 foot-pounds
so and then you
pull the axle all the way out like
That so that it'll set set it up for the play for the other side
So here's the driver's side axle before I install it
You can see there
Timken made in USA. There's a part number
Zero six zero these are the tapered bearings a doctored if solid for me
That's what you want
As the axle
Good stuff made in USA, so
Here's the driver's side axle of the CUDA so I have it expanded so you guys can get a better look
This is the three-eighths retainer on dr. Diff's kit. And then here's the adjuster
You can see closely it's adjusted. So the back of the adjuster is
This is washer a little bit
Sticking out from the back of the retainer. So this is gonna be pressing onto the bearing which presses
The axle towards the center section and that's what is able to
Have the play so I'm gonna Incept assemble all this hit it with
The hammer hit the axle with a hammer and a wood block so it'll seat the bearings again and then
I'll show you how to adjust the play
So with the axle assembled I bolted down the retainer
With a crisscross pattern starting with the bottom bolt to
the axle now to adjust the adjuster I made it so that the
The juster is tightened down so that there's zero play
On the axle so you zero play there, so
once you
Get to that step
you have to adjust the
Adjuster itself counterclockwise a little loosen up one notch
to where it'll give you
that play that you need and it's only one notch, so
I'm gonna use a
File, Dr. Diff recommends snap ring pliers, but I don't have any right now
so I just used a file and
Hit it with a hammer
That will adjust it back
See you hear that
There's some play in there now
You really need a dial indicator
to see the
Play but it's five thousandths that you would need. So that's very very
Razor thin
So
But as all is the axle isn't grinding
And then you can feel the play itself. That should be fine. So once you get to that step you just
install the
Locking tab
Since the adjuster is
Positioned for it now and then just saw the locking tab and
Bolt it up and that should be it. So let me just finish this up and then
We'll go from there so
Here's the rear axle assembly all finished up I
bolted the brake caliper to the bracket and used red loctite to on the
Bracket bolts I torque them down to 45 foot pounds
So and make sure not to kink the brake line. I almost did that to the passenger side. So just watch out for that
Also reinstall the parking brake cable. That's pretty important
The axle spins pretty good forward and back. It's pretty smooth and then if you look,
And back you see the drive shaft spinning so that's a good sign
All I have to do now is just to refill the center section with
gear oil since this uses
So since this is a true track inside
Eating to track in the 8 and 3/4. Dr. DIF recommends 85w 140 gear oil
This is good stuff and it's made in USA
You guys all know how I like that. So, but other than that, I'm going to finish this up and then
Go from there, so until next time guys, this is Rylis Productions. See you guys at the track!