Hi my name is jake. This is my first post ever on coloradok5.com and so far i like what i've seen and i was hoping that maybe i could get some help from yall if at all possible.
About 3 weeks ago I bought a 97 k2500 4x4 with the 7.4. I drove it home and everything. All the things that I could see on the truck looked perfectly fine until the day after I went wheeling. The front left cv axle had popped out. So me thinking it wasn't a big deal i went to autozone and got a brand new direct replacement axle. I installed everything correctly. Start it up, back up a little bit and pop there it goes again. Now i had decided to take the truck to a pro to see what was up with the truck. He finds some things wrong, bent crossmember, differential drop arm bent, diff bracket broken, and a few more parts either bent/broken. Knowing that i didn't do anything hard enough on my truck to do that kind of damage I got to thinking. Jason replaced all the parts at a reasonable price and he got everything fixed up nice and neat. But now with the right parts for the truck, the cv shaft is still about 5/8" inch too far out of the boot. All of the adjustments were shifted to the left side where the needed space was and that's how much we still needed to go, 5/8". Took a look at the frame and saw a few possible smalle bends in the frame of the truck. This week I am taking the truck to a frame shop around town to see if there is any serious damage. If anyone knows any other problems that I could be facing with the hyperextended cv axle please let me know. I've never really seen anything like this before. Thanks for your help. If you would like to email me just email me at [Email/][email protected][/Email] thanks guys
About 3 weeks ago I bought a 97 k2500 4x4 with the 7.4. I drove it home and everything. All the things that I could see on the truck looked perfectly fine until the day after I went wheeling. The front left cv axle had popped out. So me thinking it wasn't a big deal i went to autozone and got a brand new direct replacement axle. I installed everything correctly. Start it up, back up a little bit and pop there it goes again. Now i had decided to take the truck to a pro to see what was up with the truck. He finds some things wrong, bent crossmember, differential drop arm bent, diff bracket broken, and a few more parts either bent/broken. Knowing that i didn't do anything hard enough on my truck to do that kind of damage I got to thinking. Jason replaced all the parts at a reasonable price and he got everything fixed up nice and neat. But now with the right parts for the truck, the cv shaft is still about 5/8" inch too far out of the boot. All of the adjustments were shifted to the left side where the needed space was and that's how much we still needed to go, 5/8". Took a look at the frame and saw a few possible smalle bends in the frame of the truck. This week I am taking the truck to a frame shop around town to see if there is any serious damage. If anyone knows any other problems that I could be facing with the hyperextended cv axle please let me know. I've never really seen anything like this before. Thanks for your help. If you would like to email me just email me at [Email/][email protected][/Email] thanks guys
