Locking hubs parts

[Wes Harden]

The D44 I am working on, was full time with drive slugs. About a year ago I put used warn premium locking hubs on this axle.
Upon disassembly, this time I found these steel cups right up against the outer bearings.

Looks like a spring similar to the one the drive slugs use would fit in there.
Installed

My thinking is I need to leave these out since the Warn don't have a spring.
Posting for second opinion.

 

[Bent77]

I run them to keep the grease toward the bearing

 

[skunked]

I don't recall seeing those on my spicer/D44 however the yukons on the D60 use them.

 

[mrk5]

I don't recall seeing those on my spicer/D44 however the yukons on the D60 use them.

I just had my yukon lockouts apart and those spring cups are missing. I had a shop put the arb in that axle a number of years ago and they must not have put them back in.

 

[Wes Harden]

I run them to keep the grease toward the bearing

I thought about it, but there is nothing to hold them up against the bearing. I got lucky not pulling them when I did the manual hubs.
I didn't see them in the nasty black sticky grease.
I have plenty of grease in these hubs, am not worried about bearing lube.

 

[tarussell]

To the best of my knowledge those are only for the springs , as you said, and only if it calls for them - I agree with Bent that they could help keep grease from sling’n but only if held in place; with the Warns they would just be along for the ride doin nuth’n.

 

[Bent77]

along for the ride doin nuth’n.

Just like me…

 

[tarussell]

 

[skunked]

I just had my yukon lockouts apart and those spring cups are missing. I had a shop put the arb in that axle a number of years ago and they must not have put them back in.

I actually didn’t run them with the smaller splined stubs. Didn’t make a difference.

 

[onetonbb74]

There used on Spicer style slugs with the cap for full time trucks. That ring holds the spring that puts pressure on the stub shaft to hold/press the seal on the stub to the sealing surface on the back of the spindle. You don't need that ring with the warn premiums.

 

[nvrenuf]

Winner ^^

 

[Wes Harden]

thanks all i left them out, put with the slugs i tok out last year. just wanted reassurance, since sometimes I can think myself into a corner.

 

[wazzabie]

Did you try reaching out to Warn. Perhaps warn has a parts diagram.

 

[Wes Harden]

The hub kit I purchased with snap rings orings and screws came with a pamphlet, had some exploded views but so small and smudged it didn't help.