Soo in my head it seems perfectly logical that when you put gears in your truck or upgrade your posi system you put an aftermarket diff cover on to have an increased fluid capacity and be aluminum to dissipate the heat away from your expensive rear end plus having a drain and fill hole makes it way easier to do the fluid dance you have to do after getting new gears. Ive always run MagHytec covers on ALL my trucks but they are soooo expensive a new company just came out called Oasis Diff Cover ODC for short look almost identical for $100 dollars less what a deal rite ? well no one tells you that with an extended cover your track bar hits it !! and there isnt one company that knows it yet i called all of em they all thought i was installing it wrong so i had to take the cover to my local machine shop and get 1/3 of an inch milled off the cooling fins then from the machine work the finish got destroyed so then i brought it to the powdercoat shop and had it custom spayed $180 diff cover + $100 machine shop labor + $50 powdercoat and this is what ya get atleast no one will have the same color haha and it still only clears by 2/32nd of an inch

 

1/16 of an inch at full lock with the suspension compressed? Or 1/16 as it sits?

 

My mag hytec cover fit without any modification.

 

" My mag hytec cover fit without any modification. "

OUCH !!!!!!

 

i always stick with the companies i have had success with. wondering if there are aftermarket track bars that would allow more clearance. has anyone tried to replace their front diff cover yet?

 

Should have sent it back

 

My Mag-Hytec cover fit with no modifications also. But if you go to an aftermarket rear sway bar, you will need to shim the sway bar mounts out 5/8" to clear the cover.

 

I think I'da left the cover alone and had a shop fab me up the sway bar. I mean any shop with a bender could make one up...

 

LOL

I don't think you are going to find a lot of shops with the capability to bend a piece of solid steel that diameter. Its a bit different than bending tubing.

 

Yeah I shoulda specified a pipe bender so that couldn't be confused with a tube bender. My old man had an awning and canopy shop when I was growing up and I sometimes take it for granted that some of the equipment I had access to/worked with ALL SUMMER/EVERY DAMN SUMMER is available to anyone. Although 12 ton hydraulic benders should be able to do it and they are pretty common and relatively cheap too - I have one in the barn in Georgia I don't think was $200 NIB.

I get nailed when I reply "just go weld the damn thing" all the time, thinking everyone can weld and has a welder just sitting in the garage, LOL...