80 Making wierd noises

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Hey guys, my dad's 80 started making strange noises a while ago. When driving every once in a while the front left corner start making a really ugle vibrating sound, sort of like the brake is trying to grab a hole, except it's just bouncing off. Think of it as trying to shove a piece of really hard rubber into a grinder, how it would just sort of bounce a lot. That's the only way that I can explain it. Mechanic thinks it might have something to do with the ABS. Any suggestions?
 
Classic dry spindle bushing. Do a search here on that in the body of posts and you'll find an evening's reading. Can anyone think of a way to get lube in there without pulling the spindle off? Any lube would help to prevent damage for a week or so. Wonder if the truck were jacked up with the dry side high and a bit of dripping down the axle stub while hand turning it would get some oil in there. This would prevent damage for a while.

Obviously a proper birf repack is going to do it as well.

DougM
 
IdahoDoug said:
Can anyone think of a way to get lube in there without pulling the spindle off?
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Doug,
You've seen this before.

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Not particularly elegant but it works.

-B-
 
B - Great tool! That's an excellent fab - why did you make it?

DougM
 
IdahoDoug said:
B - Great tool! That's an excellent fab - why did you make it?
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I made it to lube the spindle bushing. :D

Copper pieces came from Lowes, hub nut was a spare, grease zirk from NAPA. About 15 minutes to put the pieces together and then let the JB Weld harden overnight.

The idea came from C-Dan. He told me he had seen his techs use a similar DIY tool for lubing the spindle bushing. It would be better if you could weld it but I wasn't paying to have someone weld it for me. The JB is doing a great job and it's not a tool you'll use very often.

-B-
 
PurpleFJ62 said:
do you know exactly what pipe thread you got?
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Read post #6 carefully, and closely examine the photos. The gray material is JB Weld. There is no threaded pipe.

-B-
 
Did anybody ever find out if we could get the hollow birfs from the mines that had the Zerk built in?
 
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