I am getting so close to getting this front end back together I can taste it! And it tastes like de-greaser dripping on me as I clean the face of my front 3rd member in preparation for some FIPG and a gasket!
In typical noob fashion I was walking up the hill to my garage going over in my head how I was going to get the right side knuckle done tonight. I suddenly realized that if I did it as planned I would soon find that I would have a very difficult time getting my front 3rd member on... Duh. I could have put my front 3rd on way back when I put the rear on... WTF was I waiting for?
So anyway, I get on my back, clean the faces real well (dripping the aformentioned de-greaser), apply a super thin layer of FIPG, put on my paper gasket and heft the 3rd into place. A few turns of a socket wrench followed by appropriate applicaiton of torque (35lb/ft according to Haynes...suprisingly the FSM doesn't seem to specify the torque for this anywhere I could find) and a major part of the vehicle is back on it!!! An upgrade too! (3.73 diffs).
Then I set about my knuckles. But I remembered I hadn't installed my new studs in my hubs yet. That took a fair amount of time and it's time to go nitey-nite. So I went over all my instructions and parts one more time and I'm now 100% sure that next time I have a few hours I will have at least one of my front hubs/knuckles back together!
