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Eaton E-locker

From 1990 Ford Bronco, documented by Dave Blaney.

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1990 Ford Bronco - From the side the Eaton E-locker looks like an open carrier. 1990 Ford Bronco - From the bottom of the carrier you can see the magnet assembly. Be very careful with the carrier because it's easy to break off those two e… 1990 Ford Bronco - Disassembly: Remove cross pin retainer bolt. 1990 Ford Bronco - Slide out the cross pin. 1990 Ford Bronco - Once the cross pin is removed you can rotate the spider gears around to remove them and their washers. 1990 Ford Bronco - Here are the spiders removed from the case. Note that with the spiders removed one of the side gears falls down. 1990 Ford Bronco - Go ahead and remove that side gear. 1990 Ford Bronco - To remove the other side gear push it up from the bottom of the carrier. 1990 Ford Bronco - Looking at the back side of this side gear you can see the slots that the engagement pins lock into when the locker is engaged. 1990 Ford Bronco - If you look closely at the slots you can see that some of the edges are slightly rounded off, which I'm sure is a result of the lockers fai… 1990 Ford Bronco - Here is the crux of the failure, see the rounded off tips of the engagement pins? They are supposed to be cylindrically shaped with sharp e… 1990 Ford Bronco - To remove the damaged pins we need to get to them through the bottom of the locker. 1990 Ford Bronco - Remove the snap ring. 1990 Ford Bronco - Once the snap ring is removed the magnet assembly will lift right off. 1990 Ford Bronco - Here's the back side of the magnet. It looks a little funky in the picture, but there is nothing wrong with it. The magnet itself is encase… 1990 Ford Bronco - Here is a roller bearing assembly and the edge of the ring that the magnet rides around, sorry I didn't get a better pic of the ring. 1990 Ford Bronco - Next part to come out is the face that the roller bearing assembly rides on. 1990 Ford Bronco - Next to come out is the upper half of the bearing ramp. It's a tight fit, but with a flat head screw driver on each side of the ramp it wil… 1990 Ford Bronco - Heres the ball ramp assembly. Take out the balls and inspect them to make sure they're still nice and smooth. I read of one case over on Pi… 1990 Ford Bronco - Take a couple of pics and remove the lower part of the ball ramp assembly. 1990 Ford Bronco - That exposes the springs and the back side of the engagement pins, sitting in their pin retainer ring. 1990 Ford Bronco - The pin retainer ring is easily removed from the carrier with a couple of pics. 1990 Ford Bronco - Here are the springs sitting in the carrier. At this point inspect the bores that the pins were removed from for scoring, galling, or other… 1990 Ford Bronco - Heres a shot of how the pins just slide right out of the retainer ring, it's very simple. 1990 Ford Bronco - Here's a closer shot of the damaged engagement pins. All six of them are similarly rounded off. 1990 Ford Bronco - Another shot of the rounded off engagement pins. 1990 Ford Bronco - E-locker rebuild kit. Contains engagement pins, pin retainer, side gears, spiders, cross pin, cross pin retainer bolt, side gear washers an… 1990 Ford Bronco - New engagement pins, see how much better they look? 1990 Ford Bronco - old pins vs. new pins.