Spicer 70 caution

Posted by DonE on Monday, July 12, 2004 at 2:58PM :

This past weekend I had a suspect clicking in the rear end of the '60 W300 while moving the truck a few short miles. Low and behold a ring gear bolt punched through the inspection cover and dripping gear oil. This is the exact problem I had with my '59 W200 which has a 70 rear end a couple years ago.
The fix was drilling the ring bolt heads and safety wire pairs together. There are no locking provisions on these rear ends from the factory and apparently something that needs to be checked out. The '60 has only 35k original miles. If you catch it early (as I did in both cases) you can avoid more serious damage.
Has anyone else had this problem of ring gear bolts loosening up on 70's?

• PowerGiants

Follow Ups:

• Re: Spicer 70 caution - Gordon Maney 9:33PM 07/12/2004
  • Re: Spicer bolt issues - DonE 1:09PM 07/13/2004
    • Professor Evans - BZ 1:45PM 07/13/2004
      • Re: Professor Evans - MoparNorm 2:21PM 07/13/2004
        • No - BZ 2:46PM 07/13/2004
          • How about a used 04 Dodge diesel with 1500 miles on it? - Allen Patnode 8:24PM 07/13/2004
            • Allen,.. - MoparNorm 10:05PM 07/13/2004
              • Re: Allen,.. - Allen Patnode 5:45PM 07/14/2004
          • Oh come on... - MoparNorm 4:20PM 07/13/2004
  • Re: Spicer 70 caution - steve 11:22PM 07/12/2004

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