welding the gears in my rearend (good or bad) ????

[1970chevelle]

I have a 96 chevy 5.7 auto trans 10 bolt rearend its my daily driver i do tend to drive hard and dont like that iv got a one wheel spiner Whean im doing burn outs i don't really have the cash to put into the rearend but I've got a 220 welder lol just not sure if its a good idea to do to a daily driver so looking for opinions thank

[durty]

NOT a good idea, it would make it almost impossible to drive in the rain, more likely to break an axle, id leave it alone till ya can afford a good posi unit

[8I MALIBU]

NOT a good idea, it would make it almost impossible to drive in the rain, more likely to break an axle, id leave it alone till ya can afford a good posi unit

Yea definately NOT a good idea! Another cheap solution is to shim your spider gears. On my s10 that I had I shimmed the side gears closer to the spider gears and made it all tight. I drove that truck on the street and it worked fine for me. I even ran it at Mokan like that and it helped me hook up since I was able to do a burn out with both slicks instead of just the one tire. This is a fairly cheap solution but it's definately not as easy as it sounds to do tho. Lol

[hotrodredneck]

give me a call i can tell you how to do it and make it last the longest but like every one else said. its like a mini spool sooner or later it will pop you need c clip elinators
but i do this in my crawlers and i can get it to hold up to 40's for a good while and the axle is what brakes first pm me and i will give you my number

[DN]

Here's what I did in my old Trooper. Didn't just weld the gears together...I cut 3/8"thick pieces of steel and welded them inside all the gears...did this on both sides. It was strong and worked great off-road. I drove it on the street too, but it ate up tires and embarrassed the wife when we were screeching around a parking lot.

[1970chevelle]

I still haven't decided yet but if i do weld would a 220 stick welder do the trick ?

[DN]

I think it would work OK. I had a buddy MIG weld mine just so it wouldn't be quite as messy.

[hotrodredneck]

a lincoln 220 is fine you have to use nickel rods and dont weld the gears together like i said i have done alot of this pm me and i will give you my number and i can walk you through it.