14ff... uh oh... Help?

[Zeus33rd]

Geeeezuuuussss.....


If it was in the housing, bearing caps all bolted down- Then why couldn't you have locked a large pipe wrench around the pinion yoke, and braced the other end on the ground? If all you have is smaller pipe wrences, stick a long cheater on the handle...

Or maybe I'm just chattering like a mindless chimp in a tree....

 

[dremu]

Geeeezuuuussss.....


If it was in the housing, bearing caps all bolted down- Then why couldn't you have locked a large pipe wrench around the pinion yoke, and braced the other end on the ground? If all you have is smaller pipe wrences, stick a long cheater on the handle...

Or maybe I'm just chattering like a mindless chimp in a tree....

Nah, 78Suburban's the king of overanalysis -- some wise guy once said

You worry about stuff way, WAAAY too much.

Still, I think once he gains experience he'll stop stressing so much. I useta worry about it all the time, but now that I've been through my trucks a coupla times, I just kinda go out and do stuff, figure it out as I go.

-- A

 

[78Suburban]

Well, I'm doing all of this stuff for the first time and learning, and I just have a major fear of screwing crap up, because I'm working on a limited budget and if something gets screwed up, I'm not gonna be able to wheel for a while. I guess I'm overly anal sometimes. I wanted a 4x4 to play with for a LONG time before I finally saved up and got one, and now that I have one, I just really don't want it to be messed up anymore than it already/usually is.

And it hadn't fit perfectly into the housing, so I was gonna take it back out anyway.. the adjuster collers were hard to turn..

Turning it over and over in the housing would be kinda a pain, the vice was pretty darn easy, except for sweating to death in the hot shed with the vice

 

[sandawgk5]

Did you put new locktite on the bolts before you torqued them or did you torque them with the loctite that had already cured and they got broken loose? Not being a dick just asking a question. Not really sure if everyone runs loctite I use it on almost every fastener in my rig

Ira

 

[78Suburban]

Did you put new locktite on the bolts before you torqued them or did you torque them with the loctite that had already cured and they got broken loose? Not being a dick just asking a question. Not really sure if everyone runs loctite I use it on almost every fastener in my rig

Ira

I didn't locktite them at all.. I did brake cleaner off the oil off the old bolts... I guess I should have loctited them.. oh well, its in the truck now, and as long as that gear pattern checks out with some mustard, I'm gonna leave them where they sit