1980 Longbed Pickup Build - Epically Slow Style (1 Viewer)

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Did you get yours back up and running. I am guessing that you have been working on a T-case for the last few days.

Negative. Mine is still on a lift at the shop.

The xfer was built by a shop and they are doing the correct thing and warranting the work 100%.

I hope to have it back in a couple of weeks.
 
Welllllllllllll, we got it halfway back together. Actually, we got it all the way back together less one axle. Apparently, the kit that was labeled as an fj60 kit was actually an fj40 kit. Seems the 40 long side is 2" shorter. So, I gotta order another long side axle. I'm prob gonna go ahead and order the stuff to upgrade the brakes as well.

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A few pics....

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I'll post pics of the birf tomorrow when I get to work. The bell is split and cracked in a few places. Turns out they are aftermarket birfs and not the originals.

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Some close up pics of birf destruction...

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Yeah... I think I broked it... :hillbilly:
 
Are those of it reassembled or did it just crack it so the guts fell out?
 
That is just the empty birf from the broken side. All the balls and the cage are out of it. I was just illustrating the significant carnage.

So, I was out of town last week for work and our tenants up and moved out of our rental house. So I've been playing catch up at work and dealing with the house. I'd love to just go drop the keys off at the bank but unfortunately I can't bring myself to do it. If you're ever at a wheeling event with me I'll be happy to regale you with tales of horror of owning a rental house. It would take too much space here and derail the thread too badly.

Anyway, enough about that. I'm hopefully going to be ordering my correct axle shaft this week or next. I honestly don't know when I'll have time to swap it in though. I may hit up beno and see if I can bring it over on a Sunday and do it. :hmm:

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Yeah I figured that was the broken one, it was just with all the cracks I was trying to decide if you reassembled the broken pieces back into the bell or if it was just cracked up that badly.

Sucks about the renters, so moral of the story is don't be a renter? Erin threw that out the other day and I am leery of trying that game out. And I am sure you have some very... uh, interesting stories to share.
 
Yeah I figured that was the broken one, it was just with all the cracks I was trying to decide if you reassembled the broken pieces back into the bell or if it was just cracked up that badly.

Yeah the cage came out in a million pieces so I didn't even bother trying to get a pic.

Sucks about the renters, so moral of the story is don't be a renter? Erin threw that out the other day and I am leery of trying that game out. And I am sure you have some very... uh, interesting stories to share.

Don't be a landlord.

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Yeah the cage came out in a million pieces so I didn't even bother trying to get a pic.

Sounds kind of like the pinion bearing in the Zuk.
 
I may hit up beno and see if I can bring it over on a Sunday and do it. :hmm:

Or just bring it over and have Beno do it because he doesn't have a rental house, he doesn't have a wife, he doesn't have a kid, he doesn't have a life and he spends all of his spare time wrenching anyway.

:)

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Or just bring it over and have Beno do it because he doesn't have a rental house, he doesn't have a wife, he doesn't have a kid, he doesn't have a life and he spends all of his spare time wrenching anyway.

:)

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If I didn't live so far away, I'd think my name was Beno after reading that! Haha

Probably describes a lot of us in the wheeling world in truth..... somebody remind me again, why do we do this? HA!

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somebody remind me again, why do we do this? HA!

coz we actually like it .. the only difference right now it's you are not been caught by hunting female .. I mean pre wife aka girlfriend .. :lol:
 
Probably describes a lot of us in the wheeling world in truth..... somebody remind me again, why do we do this?

I mostly do it because Erin tells me to.... ok, that's only a little true, mostly it is how I get away from all of the above for a minute every so often...
 
Truck is coming to Casa de Beno on Saturday.

Not the first time I've stored vehicles for months at a time *cough* "Clownmidget"

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