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I started to try to reassemble my axle and didn't get far. I wanted to start with the inner axle seals so i could reinstall the gears and then work my way out from there. I was sent the wrong inner axle seals. In my excitement when receiving new parts i didn't look close enough at all my parts. About to order the right ones hope they come before the weekend. I guess I just have to work on something else , Its not like there are a shortage of things to do.
I am finally in the re assembly stage. The ring and pinion went back in last night. first in were the correct inner axle seals.
3/4 drive 1-7/8" socket on a couple of extensions worked very well to install seals
Hello 69 crew cab, just wanted to stop by and add my comments. Love the build and am a little jealous of the crew. Noticed you were saying you wanted to do a radio delete.
if your bezel is in good condition I am looking for one if you want to get rid of it. Let me know, keep up the great build.
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Thanks for the good feedback. Scroll back up and look at the picture of my radio area. It is not that I want to do a radio delete. At some point someone modified the radio and added these up fitter switches. They did a fairly good job they light up and function so I may keep them..
I havent posted any of the recent progress so I guess I will get up to date.
On my last build post I showed the axle with king pins installed. When I was getting ready to do this I looked for good build info online, since I had never rebuilt a Dana 60 king pin axle. I soon found BillaVista.com . This site has some truly excellent information with good photos and explanations. I believe that there is an error in one of the steps on his build instructions. Those of you out there with experience rebuilding these axle take a look at the following pictures at let me know what you think.
First I purchased a Yukon gear full Dana 60 Rebuild kit from 4WDFactory.com The kit came with 2 different seals for the upper king pin a short one and a taller one with a metal wear ring. This is the shorter of the 2 seals.
Billavista says to install the seals in this orientation with the lip facing this way. When fully assembled what does the lip seal against?
While trying to figure out how these seals were supposed to do any good i looked closely at both the kingpin bearing surface which has a nice machined surface and the underside of the Knuckle which holds the kingpin bushing.The underside of the knuckle has a cast , unmachined surface. The taller of the 2 seals installed the other direction
You can see how well it matches the machined face of the kingpin bearing surface and it has a metal wear ring facing the king pin bushing.
taller seal with the bushing
This is how I installed them. When fully assembled the bushing is snug up against the wear ring of the seal.
The way it was shown on Bilavista just didn't make sense there was nothing for the lip of the seal to seal against. I spent considerable time searching the internet and forums for a schematic showing the seal direction before deciding to install like this. I welcome any input from experienced D60 rebuilders, did I make the right choice or am I missing something?
I decided to rebuild my Original Dayton calipers instead of buying rebuilt ones. I looked at rebuilt ones at the parts store and they were a reproduction. Mine have the manufacture date cast into them which is pretty cool , they are super simple and the rebuild kit was only about 5 bucks! Original calipers after sandblasting and primer
My brake pistons were slightly corroded and i wanted to clean them up. This is what I came up with. polishing the brake pistons
I put the brake hone inside the piston to spin it and was able to put light pressure on them while spinning. First 220 then 400 then scotch brite . Good as new.
When rebuilding the calipers, put the inner seal in first then the dust boot and then the piston. I did the inner seal then the pistons and could not get the dust boot on. The piston actually holds the dust boot on. I had to put the caliper in the vice and use compressed air to push the pistons out again. They were in the vice loosely to keep the pistons from shooting across the shop like they did when i first tore them apart!
11-14-2018, 05:37 PM
