chevymitchell
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Good afternoon everyone.
As all of you know, there is a known factory defect with the Locker Sensor housings. These housings are allowing gear oil into them and shortly thereafter they fail. This failure, at this time, requires the entire axle assembly to be replaced.
Today marks my 16th set of gears I've done for people since Thanksgiving. 12 of those have been JL's and 9 of those have been Rubicons.
Out of the 18 Rubicon differentials, all but 5 of those sensors had oil in them. NONE had failed yet, but failure was imminent before potting.
Last weekend I did @GhostDivers gears and his was the worst I had seen yet without a failure. One of his sensors was completely full with only a tiny air bubble visible. I drilled larger holes in the cap than I normally would for just potting and used a high quality contact cleaner to rinse it out and then potted it. His would be the first full sensor to be cleaned and potted, (That I've done) so we'll see if it holds up.
His wife, Carrie, has her Jeep here with me today and the rear sensor in hers has oil in it, as well. Again, no failure yet.
The point to this post is: Do NOT wait to take care of this issue as a preventative maintenance item. Please take a moment to pot your sensors and save yourself a ton of heartache and let's hope FCA releases a replaceable line item soon.
Here are the steps to pot the sensors: https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/forum/threads/locker-position-sensor-potting-dana-44.59581/
Thank you.
As all of you know, there is a known factory defect with the Locker Sensor housings. These housings are allowing gear oil into them and shortly thereafter they fail. This failure, at this time, requires the entire axle assembly to be replaced.
Today marks my 16th set of gears I've done for people since Thanksgiving. 12 of those have been JL's and 9 of those have been Rubicons.
Out of the 18 Rubicon differentials, all but 5 of those sensors had oil in them. NONE had failed yet, but failure was imminent before potting.
Last weekend I did @GhostDivers gears and his was the worst I had seen yet without a failure. One of his sensors was completely full with only a tiny air bubble visible. I drilled larger holes in the cap than I normally would for just potting and used a high quality contact cleaner to rinse it out and then potted it. His would be the first full sensor to be cleaned and potted, (That I've done) so we'll see if it holds up.
His wife, Carrie, has her Jeep here with me today and the rear sensor in hers has oil in it, as well. Again, no failure yet.
The point to this post is: Do NOT wait to take care of this issue as a preventative maintenance item. Please take a moment to pot your sensors and save yourself a ton of heartache and let's hope FCA releases a replaceable line item soon.
Here are the steps to pot the sensors: https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/forum/threads/locker-position-sensor-potting-dana-44.59581/
Thank you.
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