Patent ID: 8096567

Claim:
An adjustable carrier housing for receiving a drive shaft that is drivingly coupled to a drive axle and attaching the drive shaft and drive axle to a vehicle chassis, comprising: a sub-frame adapted to be connected to the vehicle chassis with the sub-frame including a plurality of side walls each defining an aperture; a pair of cover gears having an outside periphery including a plurality of splines with each of the cover gears attached to opposite sides of the carrier housing and positioned within the apertures located on the respective side walls; a ring gear positioned proximate to each of the apertures and each ring gear having an inside including a plurality of splines for cooperating with the splines of the cover gears; wherein the ring gears are coupled to the cover gears; and wherein the carrier housing is fixedly coupled to the sub-frame by an interlocking relationship between the splines of the cover gears and ring gears.