JRBAMATEX
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I Changed the output shaft seal on the front rear axle and the input shaft seal on the last rear axle yesterday. The second or last axle went pretty smooth. I thought it would be the more difficult of the two. Negative.... The front rear was a challenge. The nut on the pinion shaft that holds the flange on was immovable under my own power. Also as you can imagine the quarters are pretty tight under there and do not offer much room for a big cheater bar. So I resorted to putting a 20 ton bottle jack under the handle of my 3/4" drive ratchet and jacking it up. There was only a handful of things that could happen. Either the ratchet explodes and sends shrapnel everywhere including into me or the truck comes off the ground or the nut lets go. The nut gave. Reluctantly, but it did give. Then I broke my seal puller trying to get the old seal out. So I had to take the seal housing off. Then put it all back together. Should have taken a few hours. Took most of the day. I am so soar! from working in that little space. I climbed out and the wife says "You're filthy!" Oh... you think?
Side note: Made a shifter boot for the T-Case lever today. Need to make a mounting plate to secure it to the tunnel but the boot turned out real nice. See pic below.
Side note: Made a shifter boot for the T-Case lever today. Need to make a mounting plate to secure it to the tunnel but the boot turned out real nice. See pic below.
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