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'86 K30 Crew Cab Build

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GWeakland620 said:
Nice work. I wish I had your resources to make my own inner seal press! :bow:
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Thanks! Access to a pile of left over steel and a lathe is a sweet perk. I wish I had one at my house, but having access to one at work is the next best thing. The seal press worked out great.
 
I think that would be more doable if a couple of my local buddies wanted to split it. We've done 4-5 seals in the last couple years, I think that's worth it.
 
The seals I used could have gone in totally unmodified if i had not fully seated the lip seal portion in the counterbore. If you left them .060-.075" or so shy of fully seated they would work with the front flange/lip intact. I don't think it would have interfered with the carrier or bearings doing them that way. I'll verify this and give an update when I put my carrier back in.
 
GWeakland620 said:
I think that would be more doable if a couple of my local buddies wanted to split it. We've done 4-5 seals in the last couple years, I think that's worth it.
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I was able to spend $25 at lowes on some all thread, washers and nuts for a seal installer. However I pulled the seal from the C (from the outside) rather than spreading them into the tubes.

Nice work @LNielson
 
I usually just get a long piece of pipe and a 3/4" drive socket that fits the seal and a helper with a bfh and drive them in from the opposite side through the tube. You have to fill the lip with grease where the spring is so that you don't accidentally pop out the spring.
 
Truckman4life said:
I usually just get a long piece of pipe and a 3/4" drive socket that fits the seal and a helper with a bfh and drive them in from the opposite side through the tube. You have to fill the lip with grease where the spring is so that you don't accidentally pop out the spring.
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That would work for sure, I'd imagine the helper would be essential. These seals were a way tight fit. I think it would be really easy to fubar one if it got started even a little bit crooked. I think simple and low tech is often the best method, and usually the least expensive too.
 
My gears are installed. I made my own setup bearings with some Advanced Auto Parts cheapies, worked out great. Big thanks again to @blazinzuk for long distance pattern reading help.

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Here's a look at my final pattern:
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I'm putting in a set of these studs in. Somebody please school me, loctite into the housing, or just snug them up?
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Ran into one small setback, my yoke seal surface looked bad, so i. ought a seal saver and the dang thing had the break away end pop off about 1/16 shy of where it should have and it will eat my new pinion seal if I were to run it. Yes, I used some slip fit loctite on it, so it is trash now for sure.
 
LNielson said:
Ran into one small setback, my yoke seal surface looked bad, so i. ought a seal saver and the dang thing had the break away end pop off about 1/16 shy of where it should have and it will eat my new pinion seal if I were to run it. Yes, I used some slip fit loctite on it, so it is trash now for sure.
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I’ve been this guy before. Next time stick your yoke in the freezer for a couple hours and once you start don’t waste any time at all. Speedy sleeves can be a ******
 
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