So for christmas a friend of mine bought me the upgraded diff pins from Sheptrans. After comparing them to the ones Buschur sells, I thought maybe my friend ordered me OEM ones through shep (Buschurs are silver in color and include dowels. Sheps are goldish in color and do not include dowels). I called sheptrans and verifed that my buddy did indeed purchase the correct upgraded pins.



After speaking with Travis(?) about the dowels not being included, he said to just reuse my stock ones (since my pins have not yet broken).
Im still skeptical on these upgraded pins and a little nervous about reusing the stock dowels.
Anyone have any suggestions/comments?

 

Pictures always help, but the stock dowels should be fine. How hard do you drive the car? Any AutoX / Road/ Drag Racing?

 

I pretty much baby the car. Never auto X'ed nor dragged but may. I just know a lot of people have had problems with these pins even stock. So when doing my clutch, these pins will be upgraded.

Ill try and post pics in a little bit.

 

Pic posted

 

Anyone...?

 

So i did a little more research on these pins (making phone calls and what not) and it seems as though Shep uses the "new" factory Mitsubishi center diff pins (hence why they are gold in color). I guess Mitsu tried to fix their own problem with these pins which is why they are different in color compared to our oem 2008 GSR's.
Now, Buschur uses a very hard material, and then sends their center diff pins out to get chromed allowing for a more slippery surface so they are more resistant in binding to the spider gears. For this reason, I will probably return the shep pins and order the Buschur pins.

 

Any idea of when mitsu started using these new pins.

 

im really not sure

 

What do these OEM replacement pins cost?

Bryan

 

The ones used by Shep cost roughly $50 and come with torrington bearings. Anyone want to buy mine?

 

The Shep one should be just fine I would keep those. Shep wouldn't sell them if they didn't work lol.

 

Anyone heard of a 2010 model failure yet since Mitsu tried to fix this problem?

 

x2 wondering the same as I have a 2010 and want to know if Mitsu has fixed this issue?

 

Yea this is interesting. It'd be cool if Mitsubishi issued a recall and we got new badass diff pins for free

 

John Shep would not release a product that he wouldn't stand by or be confident in, my tranny is actually with him at the moment and I am getting a full rebuild and these diff pins installed along with the 4.28 final drive. This guy has worked wonders in the transmission game and thats all he works with