Holy Bat****! I'm sorry to hear about your troubles, but you could not be in better hands now!
Late in the day yesterday, I talked to Kevin on the phone about the helicoiled trunion bolthole
I found doing my knuckles. Kevin gave a brief digest of your problems, but I had no idea that they were in the middle of this kind of nightmare. I was not happy to hear that "How to fix" turns out to be "Where to find a passenger knuckle housing". I was feeling kinda sick about it, then I wake up this morning and read the gory details of your experience as documented by Kevin. I must say, I'm feeling much better now.
I've done knuckle jobs a couple of times now. I'm not a mechanic. There are some good write-ups on Mud about how to do it right. I had everything clean and painted, ready to go back together. I slipped on the housing, got the trunions seated, w/bearing retainers in place, and got the bearing retainer bolts just barely tight, slapped in the birf, and a big gob of grease, cleaned my hands and went looking for the torque specs for the knuckle studs and the torque wrench. Started tightening to 71ft/lbs. Without too much pressure one of the top trunion bolt spun. WTF! I pulled it out and there was this springy thing around the threads. I knew what it was for, just couldn't remember the frickin name for it, Helicoil, that's right. Again, I'm not a mechanic, and not much experience with these things, so I called Kevin - the guru of all things Land Cruiser and got the low down.
I feel at least some of your pain. Maybe we can do a group buy on Monday?
Later,
Trent
Late in the day yesterday, I talked to Kevin on the phone about the helicoiled trunion bolthole
I found doing my knuckles. Kevin gave a brief digest of your problems, but I had no idea that they were in the middle of this kind of nightmare. I was not happy to hear that "How to fix" turns out to be "Where to find a passenger knuckle housing". I was feeling kinda sick about it, then I wake up this morning and read the gory details of your experience as documented by Kevin. I must say, I'm feeling much better now.I've done knuckle jobs a couple of times now. I'm not a mechanic. There are some good write-ups on Mud about how to do it right. I had everything clean and painted, ready to go back together. I slipped on the housing, got the trunions seated, w/bearing retainers in place, and got the bearing retainer bolts just barely tight, slapped in the birf, and a big gob of grease, cleaned my hands and went looking for the torque specs for the knuckle studs and the torque wrench. Started tightening to 71ft/lbs. Without too much pressure one of the top trunion bolt spun. WTF! I pulled it out and there was this springy thing around the threads. I knew what it was for, just couldn't remember the frickin name for it, Helicoil, that's right. Again, I'm not a mechanic, and not much experience with these things, so I called Kevin - the guru of all things Land Cruiser and got the low down.
I feel at least some of your pain. Maybe we can do a group buy on Monday?
Later,
Trent
