Things are moving along. Had a buddy help me the past two days. He's green at best but still very helpful. He cleaned the housing today while I took off the carrier and pinion bearings. There was so much mud in the pinion bearings. I put a bunch of extensions together and beat the old inner seals out today too. One had been replaced and the other needed it. I also removed the outer pinion races from the housing. I did the deep but not too deep diagonal cut with some heat method to remove the pinion and carrier inner bearing races after I removed the cages. You'll see it pictured below. I struck differential gold and salvaged an intact 0.033in pinion shim. It's now in the super top secret container so I don't bend it (a cool whip container). Tomorrow I plan to finish cleaning the axle, drive the inner seals in, drive in pinion races, and get pinion depth set. Hopefully 0.033in will put me in the game.
