I replaced my broke rear end (3.50) with one from a salvage yard. Got it all put back together and took it for a test drive. Everything was great until I put it in 4wd, and it locked down tight!!!! Took it all back apart, pulled the pumpkin and discovered a 4.11. Now my truck is in the shop having the tranny and tcase replaced. So don't be an idiot like me and trust what your local salvage yard tells you.

Wallyford

 

gulp.

 

You didn't count the teeth! Idiot! THat is like girls that tell you they are clean. Don't trust that one either. Use protection. Or in your case, use your knowledge as protection and don't trust what yards say.

 

Well, idiot, move over - long time ago I got a tranny from a junk yard for a '55 Buick - spent days in the front yard replacing it. (Anyone who has changed one knows what it is - enclosed driveline and all, and heavier than two regular trannys). Well, guess what - it didn't work any better than the old one -- ... you're not alone out there

 

I've found it,s easiest to ask them what ratio they have. Before you tell them what you need. Evens the odds a little. Have you since found the right axle?

 

Happy to oblige a friend.

YOU"RE AN IDIOT.

Though, I just replaced my clutch in my F350, and spent several hours struggling to get the tranny onto the engine, only to find I left the clutch tool in the clutch/pilot bearing.

Then, after buttening everything up, bleeding, and starting it, I heard a nasty clanging/crashing sound and shut it down immediately.

Pulled it apart again today... hey, lookee, there's my 19mm socket!

You are not alone. Just brave enough to admit it

 

Just remember......stuff happens. We have all been through through a common situation. When your on a roll I just walk away and regroup.

 

I remember the old socket in the flywheel on a buddies rollback. Broke the ZF bellhousing destroying the tranny. Yikes. When I was a younger man I did brakes on my brothers Courrier. They locked up in Anderson, SC carrying way too much gravel for my uncle. Opened them up and hey there's my needle nose pliers. Did the brakes the night before leaving MD for SC by droplight. Even dropped the truck on the droplight when finished. Sweet. When these things happen just press on!!!

 

Thanks for the stories and support ya'll. I'm not a mechanic, but I do like to do as much of my own work as I can. And I am just as much to blame as anybody. But my baby is in the shop having the tranny and tcase replaced along with the right rearend. The front axle has been pulled and checked out, did have milky fluid, so that has been changed, and new 40 series flowmasters will be installed also.

Thanks, Wallyford

 

idiot, lol.
How much is all that going to cost you now?
I can feel your pain(in the wallet).
I personally haven't done something that bad, but the worst I've done it try to pull and fix a 300lb t case(203), put it back in, then it doesn't work, then pull it, and try to put in a 205 and nothing went together, so I ended up putting the 300lb 203 back in after I found nothing wrong with it, and now I found out it's the shift linkage.

 

I'm a "monkey" who also does all my own work, unless I need to lift the truck completely off the ground, in which case I'll bite the bullet and open my wallet. I did that with the front ball joints last year.

The various cars we have, I've lifted off the ground using two floor jacks. Jack the front into the air, toss jackstands under, then do the same for the rear.

The crewcab, weighing almost 7000lbs, unfortunately pushes the jacks right into the asphault requiring massive crowbar effort to get them out.

I tried the plywood-under-the-jack method a few times, maybe I used crappy plywood, who knows, but it splintered and I didn't feel comfortable climbing under the truck.

Anyway, don't sweat the mistakes. Even professionals make them, as much as we'd like them not to. Everyone has brain-dead days. You just don't want one of those during a job interview

 

That sucks.

I guess I was kinda lucky since the only major mistake I didn't discover before a test drive resulted in a lost driveshaft.

Were there any tag on the rear? If yes, what did it say?

 

a little late for that isn't it?

 

Always good to check first but then we could not feed on someones misfortune and then realize the stupid things each of us have done in the past.

 

Mistakes teach valuable lessons.But I wouldn't say Idiot thats harsh how about dummy.Just kidding sorry to here that.appreciate ya!I dont know ya to call you dumb I have plenty of idiot stories and Im sure we all do!