So tonight had a friend of mine come over to start the rear end gear upgrade to 5:38s.. He is a Chrysler mechanic.. Pull the rear diff cover ... out flows the metal!!!!! Piles...and piles... so you are thinking like I am with 187 miles on the Jeep...UGGGGG!!! So we proceed .. trying to pull the pinion... it had fused the CV yoke to the pinion ... after 20 minutes of banging away, off it came and out came the pinion... upon inspection the pinion bearing was chewed to pieces.. and black from heat.. he told me this is not as uncommon as you think... rear end setup wrong from the factory!! SO ... it went down hill from here. opened my rear set of G2 gears and noticed that there were chips on the ring gear.. and on the pinion.. so we opened the second set ... same problems!!! They were both packed poorly .. only rapped in plastic and the pinion was cradled on top of the pinion in a cardboard holder. So during shipping the pinion bounced around on top of the ring gear like popcorn in a popper!!!:(( so my brand new jeep is high and dry with no gears in the rear and am waiting til tomorrow morning to see how soon they can overnight a set to me??

Anyone else have gear problems?

 

I am going to post pics of how they were packaged ... I could not believe it!! No foam or bubble rap.. and they were sealed with a G2 logo sticker!!!

 

cPretty sure My G2's were also packed in paper and cardboard. I didn't really check them out closely since I didn't do the install myself. Also they were delivered directly to 4Wheel Online store from their local warehouse... not to my house.

 

I just ordered 4.88s from bustabizz. They better not come packed like this!

 

Yep just ordered my 4.88's. They will not be accepted at the door if they come like that.

 

Thats the main reason for posting this is to make you guys aware of this potential issue!! I hope no one else has to wait with a torn apart vehicle!!

 

Yeah that's no good give them a call and exchange those.



Our gears are packaged in foam

David

 

Honestly the G2 gears are packaged better than any other gear we carry.

So I am not sure where you bought yours from or what

I sent out 200+ sets of gears and not had, or heard of one issue.

Bryan

 

I got mine (5.13s) from bustabizz and they were packed in foam, no issues at all. Got them installed yesterday.

 

They came from 4wd.. and now i had to pay to have the factory ring and pinion back in and used one of the master install kits .. i will have to replace. I also was surprised when i was told i would have to ship the gears back before the could be replace ???? HMMM ???