i wouldnt even worry about them..

 

Haha it's hard not to, we have been trying to get more than me and one other guy to meet up and the one time we get more, i happen to get sick... It's a bummer but thats the brakes.

 

As mentioned in a diff thread, her are more pictures of my neighbors project. It's awesome.
Rear axle


Rear hub


Front locking hub


Front axle


Other than that i don't know too much on it. On news about TGM i got the tires balanced and rotated. They were all 1 or less ounces out of balance.

 

The rear diff. is a Dana 60, the front one is a Dana too, I would guess it's a 60 too, but it could be a 44.

On edit: I just saw the hub picture, it's a Dana 60 too.

 

I thought it was a D60, i couldn't remember. I figured a D44 would have been too weak for these tires.

 

It could have pushed them but.. eventually the 44 would break..
That front could be d50/60.. so its 50/50 chance...

Most likely 4.56 gears with semi float rear

 

I don't know the details of the axles or anything but i could probably ask him next time i talk to him.

 

Yea ask him.. semi float rear.. 4.56s or higher

 

Well i found out that the 4 bolts that hold the driveline to the t-case were loose causing the drive line to make a thumping sound when under power. I was pretty concerned about it being the u-joints or something.

 

Well that's a relief then! You don't want those bolts coming off though that would have been pretty bad.

U-joints aren't too fun to replace.. When I did mine just the other day, I put one in wrong (a stupid pin fell out on the U-joint next to the T-case) when putting the double cardon joint back together so I had to be real careful to not mess up the pins in the joint when taking that whole assembly back out to re-do the U-joint. That Double Cardon Joint thing stresses me out!

 

Oh yeah i did mine last year and it was terrible. I hated doing the cardone joint... But if i have to do them again i still have my old part numbers so i am not worried about that part. The way i ended up doing it is pulling the caps off and kind of did them 1 at a time.

 

Yeah that's what I did I think about 3-4 years ago. I did the two front u_joints and the cardone joint. I couldn't get the ball socket out of the housing on the joint though so I had to buy a dremel too to very carefully carve the metal ring the ball fit in so I could pull the whole thing out. I believe I put the front U-joint in too tightly though which is why it wore out on me completely. The other two U-joints were good, but I replcaed both near the cardone joint.

Which really sucks is, I think my old cardone joint was ok, but I dropped on of the pins from the ball underneath it (it has a small hole in the bottom just big enough for a pin to slip through... and be stuck between the ball and the housing) and there seemed to be 2 or 3 more missing pins I couldn't find. Maybe a few pins did get eaten up, but there was an ok amount of grease in the ball. Anyways I had to replace the whole thing since I didn't have enough pins, and they are a different size then the U-joint pins. This time though, the ball joint came out much easier and I did it with the help of some tools at the local Oreillys. The guys there know me really well and help me out a lot with problems I have. They don't always have answers to my questions, but they sure do try to help me out.

 

Haha i replaced all 3 joints and the cardon ball joint. Here is the old to new



There were a few caps that were dried out and had no more needles left. The whole thing was a pain to do but overall i'm glad it was done. The experience was nice. The first few u joints were completely wrong, then the second to final set were close but they were off by a few hundredths of a centimeter i guess. And i ruined a spark plug socket by hammering the tar out of it.

 

Haha that top ball joint looks pretty bad, but maybe its just grease making it look all weird. I didn't actually buy the housing for mine, I purchased the new ball/seal and pried the old out and gently pounded the new in. That saved me 40 bucks so it's worth it.

Yeah I try to keep some crappy old sockets to hammer on. My dad has a whole bunch of sockets that are partially rusty and no one uses, so I've just grabbed some of those when I had to do my U-Joints. Hopefully I won't have to do any more soon, but this time I did it was about 1/5th the time it took me to do it the first time. I didn't know what I was doing the first time and now I do! Learning is cool!

 

nah it isn't just the grease. it is messed up pretty bad, I could have just gotten new guts but I figured a whole new piece would be better. it didn't cost too much anyway.