Hard Rock Ocala April 2014, interest gauging thread

It says to go at least 500 miles taking it easy before romping on the gears so I can't hit the compound as hard as id like to yet. Did you go by that?

 

my rear gears were used, so they were already broken in but i drove around with my front locked in for like a month and i wheeled it once in that time.

 

Haha did you not know it was locked in?

Are we gonna have to pull tie rods to do my front diff this weekend?

 

I have manual hubs. So my hubs were locked, my tcase was in 2wd.

And I dont think we'll have to, I had to pull my lbj though.

 

Good cause my driver side isn't going anywhere unless it's cut off haha

 

Did you fuckin weld it on?

 

Nah it got a bit cross threaded on last time so impact was used to stick it back on

 

Cross threaded or torqued to spec, tight is tight.

 

You guys make the AMT in me cringe.

 

As long as we don't have to remove it soon

 

If we do ill weld the bitch back on.

 

Pretty sure there a way to just unbolt from the lbj and lift up the spindle and pop out the cv

 

yeah i took apart my hub, unbolted the LBJ and swung the spindle out of the way, but they i remembered i was doing my TREs any way so i needed an alignment so i just took off the UBJ to remove the whole spindle. do you have an impact gun?

 

I have 2 actually

 

ok good, so i dont have to bring any tools?

 

no sir unless you have a tool that makes removving an inner cv easier

 

youve got a pry bar or pickle fork? i used a pickle fork and hammer to remove my cvs

 

I has big pry bar yes

 

Got a question for ya. How did you get the inner CV popped loose without dicking up the little dust ring? I pretty much destroyed mine getting it out but I was replacing the CVs anyway so it really didn't concern me. Would be handy to know how to do it in the future though.

 

i used the pickle fork as a punch, i put on of the forks on one of the 3 flat spots and hit it with a hammer. if i didnt pop out on the second hit i rotated it and tried the next one till it popped out