A few weeks ago i picked up a 89 comanche 4.0 2wd auto for 200$ that the guy said the transmission was out, but the driveshaft spins when its in drive so i know it wasnt that, took the cover off the rear end tonight and saw all 4 spider gears are stripped out, now i know im gonna get about 50 people telling me to just weld them together but thats just a last resort if the fix cost over 150$, how do i look at getting the right new gears and putting them in? any info will help considering this is my first time working with differentials really

 

heres a pic

 

Grab a set from any d35 at your local JY.

 

how do i get them out? im hoping i can do it with the whole assembly in there still

 

Remove the cross pin, Pull shafts out of the carrier, rotate the pinion and they'll fall out.

 

how do i remove the cross pin? everyone keeps telling me to take out the 8mm bolt but i looked over the hole carrier 10 times and theirs no bolt, just a small hole that lead to the pin, and i have to pull the axleshafts?

 

Sounds like the shoulder bolt sheared off, not a pretty sight

 

Drive out the roll pin, then pull the cross-shaft.

 

Pretty sure that gonna be a non c clip rear so just any dana 35 spiders are not gonna work. Gotta be 90 and down d35 or might be a dana 44 in there.

 

Pretty sure you gotta pull the carrier to change them if ya cant knock the pin out. Remove tires and drums theres 4 bolts that hold axles in . Theres a hole in each axle face for access to nuts remove bolts an slide axle out about a foot on each side. Then you remove the bearing caps on carrier make sure you note which side goes where and which end goes up. Now you pull carrier out make take a little convincing . It needs to come straight out keep shims if any according to the side it came from. Now knock pin roll pin out and replace spiders. Pin can be punched out thru this hole in carrier. Reverse procedure to assemble, torque bearing caps to proper amount b4 cover install and oil fill. Clean all loose metal out of axle good b4 reassembly......

 

Simple as this and its heavy be ready for some weight.

 

i ended up getting all the gears out with it still all in there, took some effort, still had to pull one of the half shafts out, when im looking at new gears they say theirs two different journal sizes? is that just the outer part on the two gears that go on the axles?

 

Dana 35 and dana 44 came in Comanche which axle is this ?

 

I have an old dana 35 axle laying back in the junk pile. I will let ya have them for the cost of shipping. If weather is decent tomorrow I will go and pull them. It came out of an 88 Limited XJ. I need to cut the spring perches off of it anyway.

 

Has to be non c clip.