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FOR MUD

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You hate to do the most on your rig?

For me it's gotta be replacing the front axle inner seals.....It's the root canal/colonoscopy (At the same time...While awake ) of working on these trucks.
I had to replace the long side shaft last month, so I went ahead and replaced both seals....Went wheelin...Long side leaked...Broke short side u-joint...Today I replaced short side shaft and both seals (Again)
Such a pain in the ass to do for a couple of seals.
I thought about it all week long....Not looking foreword to it...I looked like a kid the first day of school going out to my shop this morning....Went pretty smooth (Except when I smashed my finger getting the carrier housing out)....Still hated it.
 
Haven't had the pumpkins apart yet to know that one, but heater core and front axle Ujoints rank up there pretty high to me
 
The damn 12mm 12 point driveshaft flange bolts on a 205. Using ford 1350 cv shafts and you only get an 1/8th of a turn each crank of the wrench. Can only pull the bolt from a certain spot cause it hits the bearing retainer.
I wish the depth of the yoke throat was bigger to have a little more freedom there.
Other than that I put the clutch disc in backward. Fully installed with a triple stick doubler. Didn't notice till the test drive. Sent it to a buddy and paid him to fix my dumdum. Never do that again. Even correctly. No way.
 
On the Blazer......I'm fairly cool with about anything. Tow rig, CP3 ( high pressure fuel pump). Next big one will be when I do injectors. Sometimes having a LB7 sucks.
 
ChrisPerry said:
On the Blazer......I'm fairly cool with about anything. Tow rig, CP3 ( high pressure fuel pump). Next big one will be when I do injectors. Sometimes having a LB7 sucks.
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Injectors aren't that bad.. I just did fpr and fuel lines for the cp3. Going to have to put in a new cp3 next year as I still don't have all my power back. It's way better but still not back to 100%. May put a lift pump on just to not have to get into the valley again.
 
I would have to say working on old crusty exhaust systems with all the crusty bolts snapping off, and having to drill, tap, and heli-coil everything. Trying to get a Harmonic Damper of the front of an engine with the engine still in the vehicle is a sucky one too.
 
Inner axle seals on the D60 definitely bring the suck. The pass side still leaks.

The worst recently was a broken bolt in the crank for the harmonic balancer. Had to pull the crank.
 
Injection pump on 6.2/6.5 and heater cores on the A/C trucks. Swapping from an auto to manual kind sucks but it's totally worth it so I don't mind it as much.

Oh, rebuilding the door guts!! That sucks too.
 
mine is power steering pumps. every 2-3 mudding trips mine goes out. I think the hydro assist puts too much of a strain on them.
 
'60 inner seals, '60 king pins (and i haven't even replaced an upper pin, mine were ok), anything involving drum brakes or under dash HVAC stuff.
 
ANY job involving rusted seized bolts that are likely to snap off,which is about every job here in the salty northeast--
--exhaust studs in particular,replacing exhaust manifolds is among my least favorite chores as the bolt heads often must be torched off because no wrench known to mankind will grip them being so whittled down from rust,then the manifold pried off over the remaining stubs,and its usually impossible to get them all out of the heads without one breaking off in them..drilling them out sucks royally,your lucky not to ruin the heads trying to extract one with success..

I've had to use a sawsall to slice the manifold lengthwise and break them off in chunks in order to remove them..if your lucky you wont need to jack the engine up off its mounts to gain enough clearance from the frame rails to get the manifolds off intact..

I hate any job that involves bench pressing a transmission,transfer case or lying on the ground with your arm up over you,jobs that should be done on a lift ,but are often done lying flat on your back on a cement slab floor or driveway..oil pan replacement for example..nothing like having oil drip into your eyes while your arms go numb from lack of blood flow..

Also leaning over under the hood for hours ,one of the worst jobs is removing the heads from an engine still bolted to the chassis..

I learned its quicker to pull the engine,then do it on a stand or bench,and much easier on your back..it took me about 2 months to be able to stand up straight again without a "pulled muscle" ache after removing only one head off a 305 in my '71 GMC back in 1987,I bet if I tried that now,I'd never fully recover--maybe not even get it off at all..

I have removed an engine to replace exhaust manifolds before rather than have to butcher them with a sawsall and torches,then deal with drilling out busted bolts and tapping the holes..

Never had to replace front axle seals yet--and probably wont unless one decided to leak all the lube out overnight,otherwise I'd just keep topping it off..ditto for drippy transfer cases--they get some Lucas and topped off,I'm not about to drop one to put in seals when I only have to add a quart every couple of months..

I've done only one heater core,it sucked but wasn't that bad on a square body,I wouldn't attempt one on anything newer myself..sometimes it pays to pay someone else to do the sucky jobs..
 
I'm not having a party over the paint job I'm doing to it right now.

Suffice to say that there are more dents than meet the naked eye, and although I don't want it showroom fine I'll try to get the dents that I can hide my hand in removed.

With orange being the new black, that's the main color - with a re-do of the white rear fiberglass top which was tri-color yucky blue, darker yucky blue and black (I think, but that was a long time ago).

So - my vote for un-fun is body work and painting.
 
I detest body work also,seeing up here your patching rot holes and applying bondo more often than oil changes it seems..you need a certain amount of skill to be good at body work..
Given the choice between mechanical repairs and body work,I'd rather suffer with the mechanical repairs..at least once thats done it wont need re-doing soon,hopefully..

I have zero patience for sanding things to perfection, and trying to apply paint so it looks "nice"..most of my rust repairs lately consist of sheet metal,pop rivets or self drilling screws and a blast of rattle can primer..I don't even apply bondo half the time..
Its discouraging to see any further efforts thwarted by mother nature in short order,or ruined in a matter of seconds by a slight misjudgement while parking or manuvering.
I have tried many times to make a nice looking repair,and came close to it,then had it destroyed by a moron who backed into the truck,or flings a door open against it..or wrecked it myself..not worth the time or effort really..looks come last to me,I'm more impressed by performance..
 
ChrisPerry said:
Something must be wrong with me, I like the smell of it. The more it's burnt the better.:dunno:
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Many years ago I was working for a mid sized construction company and I was draining some really burnt gear oil out of a planetary before I rebuilt it. I got a service call, when I got back the whole building had to be evacuated cause the stink was drawn into the AC air intake.....Yes it did smell that bad.:D
It also stained my hands black for a couple of weeks.
 
ChrisPerry said:
Something must be wrong with me, I like the smell of it. The more it's burnt the better.:dunno:
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Oh yeah, good stuff! I also like the smell of limited slip additive. When I worked in a dealership parts dept I used to mess with the other guys by threatening to open a bottle, they ran like little girls.
 
I was forced to work at a parts counter where a display of Amalie postitraction lube additive,the "good stuff" made of real whale sperm,decided to ooze a few bottles worth out of a few bottles over a weekend ,after the cleaning crew knocked over the display..

It was 18 months of hell--every morning I'd come into work,inhale,and proceed to turn green and want to peuke..after a hour or so I became "noseblind" to it and it didn't seem to bother me as much..nothing I tried cleaning the counter and catalogs off with from brake cleaner to carb cleaner or anything else had any effect on reducing the stench of that nasty goo..

One positive thing about that odor was it kept many customers away from my counter--they let someone else wait on them even if it meant waiting..a few times my boss said "He can help you",and the customer said "eh--no thanks-I'll WAIT..it STINKS at his counter!..
Then he had to explain it wasn't ME that was making the stink..
 
NO, NO, NO, Dear God NO!
I know it was a typo, but the additive was Sperm Whale Oil, NOT what you said!
Sperm whales have huge reservoirs of oil in their heads that they use as echo chambers for echolocation, and it has amazing properties. I used to have a small jar of it that my father got when he was in the air force during the war.
The military had drums and drums of the stuff as a rust preventive for guns going overseas.

Great stuff, but smelly.
 
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