I found that out a few months after cuz I got tired of looking under each one lol

Haha. Yeah that's what I was thinking too!

You're welcome! I hope it worked out for you!

Breakin the law breakin the law 😎

@@byoobyoobyoobyoobyoo9785 🤣

Thats awesome man! Thats gonna run great!

The 4.10s seem to be harder to find.

Lol usually its pretty bad but this time it was pretty good!

I had recorded a section explaining that but I cut it during editing. If Im just junkyard scrounging I usually just go by the wear on the pinions and ring gear. From my experience, these diffs wear super fast once the fluid goes low. If I can find one with little to no galling, thats the one I take home.

Thats exactly what I did afterward. Had to go back with a cordless sawzall and take the flanges. Paid like $10 for it I think.

We had an issue with the tranny and swapped it out, but I havnt posted the video! I am definately considering making more GC8 videos because they seem to be more popular!

I dumped my dana 60 open diff for this and so far Im pretty happy!

cool!!

The most common one would be the one off the mid to late explorers. Not all of them came with the factory LSD so you can use the door jam sticker to narrow down your search at the junkyard.

Several of them. I believe they started installing them in 1986.

It doesnt have to be specifically sport V6. Look at the door jam sticker for "D1" "D2" "D4" "D5" or "L73" then look at the axle tag to verify what ratio it is.

You look for damaged teeth with bad wear pattern and you make sure the fluid still feels like oil and not goop. If you can spin the tires, try to listen for growling or scaping

@@NightWrencher thank you

I will bolt up but don't think the axles would work with the LSD carrier because as far as I know the explorer uses 31 spline axles and the CV uses 28 spline but if the CV also uses 31 spline its should work.

@@NightWrencher yes my 05 is 31 spline 👍

@@TaylorMadejdm1975 Then it should drop right in!

I really wish I had friends that would help me. The yard lent me a wheel barrow so i had to lug it all the way to the front and then they loaded it into my truck with a forkift.

I wish I had friends like you! You're awesome, bro, I'd fkn help ya.

@@byoobyoobyoobyoobyoo9785 😂 Thanks man!

Lol I have a makita impact. But I get lazy and dont load up all my tools so I end up working harder later

I'm not sure exactly. The mustang guys push about 350- 400hp out of them but Im not sure myself. Right now I'm at 245whp and 295tq. After I install my 4.56 gears and the BTR stage 2 truck cam I should be close to 300whp

600+

alot... its 31 spline..

@@massivefins2597 depends on the year tho, doesn't it??

If you've swapped it to a ford 8.8 housing then yes. If youre using the stock BMW housing then no

@@NightWrencher could you direct me to a video I dont know what you mean by the housing on a differential. Like put do you mean the axle?

@@gnarledcaptaintheduck9207 The "axle" is the entire differential assembly, axle shafts, housing, etc. The axle shafts are the skinny flanged parts that rotate the wheel. The housing is the case that houses both the axle shafts and differential. parts of the housing are the pumpkin or centersection and the axle tubes. The differential assembly is the ring and pinion(final drive gears, sometimes just called "gears"), spider gears and carrier inside the pumpkin part of the housing. So if you've replaced the stock BMW rearend with a Ford 8.8, then you can swap in any ford 8.8 carrier into it. If the rear end is still the stock BMW unit, then you can only use BMW parts inside.

@@NightWrencher thanks for the reply really helped me understand. I've seen some people talk about gears like 3.7 what's that about and do i need to be careful with those numbers and do those numbers have to match with my car's in some way?

@@gnarledcaptaintheduck9207 the numbers define the gearset inside the differential. Typically, changing it doesnt affect the rest of the car, unless its AWD or 4WD because the front and rear differentials have to match. The number is the number of teeth on the ring gear divided by the teeth on the pinion gear. So if your ring gear has 59 teeth and the pinion has 15 teeth then the ratio would be 3.93. So for every turn on the driveshaft the axle shafts spin 3.93 times. Slow cruiser and economy cars use lower number ratios to keep RPMs down for mpg at higher speeds at the cost of acceleration. Race cars and trucks normally want higher number gears to keep the engine in the powerband on the hwy or increase acceleration at the cost of MPGs and top speed.

Looks like it huh? All the pick a parts look the same lol

Yes, but this is a junkyard, the people there are supposed to drain out all the fluids before the vehicles hit the yard. There's no more "soil" its all dirt mixed with oil, pretty much unusable forever, BUT again, this is a junkyard, so I don't think they care. Do I feel bad about it? Absolutely. The yards need to provide trays under all the cars and properly drain the cars to prevent things like this but what can you do.

I agree with you 100% but the junkyards here in california are supposed to drain all the fluids before letting the cars out in the yard so there wasn't supposed to be any fluid in the truck to begin with. And they dont provide drain buckets or somewhere to dump the oil so theres really not much we can do