2020 Knuckle Therapy

[HardyDanger]

Ok. Another wall.
when I was pulling the rear rotor off, I heard a ping. And now I’m stuck with ebrake shoes inside rotor. Passenger side came right off. I used the threaded hole to back of but she’s not moving.

 

[HardyDanger]

Crap. Missed the step in FSM of aligning match marks.
How in the heck do I remove this sucka!

 

[clx16]

Can you not rotate it either?

 

[HardyDanger]

Can you not rotate it either?

Yeah, stuck....i goofed on aligning the tensioner
hole to start...

 

[HardyDanger]

so I have the rotor flush with the end of the wheel studs and its just dragging the shoes out with it....Longer bolts? just keep going? Or BFH time?

 

[clx16]

I never bothered and had no issue. How about using a rope or strap to compress them through the gap?

 

[TomH]

Did you follow the hint in the FSM?

 

[HardyDanger]

Welp. Guess that works. Used some long A$$$ cheaters and kept going. Some carnage.

 

[HardyDanger]

Looks like this seal is going too! Party time.

 

[HardyDanger]

Did you follow the hint in the FSM?

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I didn’t align first. The passenger side came off so easy. I spaced it. I think they bound up in there and when I used the pusher cheaters the pins popped. As evidenced by the springs and bits in the pic.

 

[HardyDanger]

Yep. Scope creep. This seal is no bueno. There was more oil than grease in there. At least I have spares for all of this.

(edit: since posting this have learned it’s ok for oil to be sloshing around in there with the bearings. I pulled this apart because there was a lot of oil on the back of the hub, and oily goo was building up on other parts and figured a seal let loose)

Ok, clock is now ticking...this time next week supposed to be driving to Mojave....

 

[BILT4ME]

Yep. Scope creep. This seal is no bueno. There was more oil than grease in there. At least I have spares for all of this.
Ok, clock is now ticking...this time next week supposed to be driving to Mojave....
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If you're referring to the inner axle seal in the end of the spindle, not uncommon to run without it and allow the diff oil to lube the wheel bearings.

Look up threads from Tools R Us about rear axle seal and see his take on it. It's not the end of the world.

 

[HardyDanger]

If you're referring to the inner axle seal in the end of the spindle, not uncommon to run without it and allow the diff oil to lube the wheel bearings.

Look up threads from Tools R Us about rear axle seal and see his take on it. It's not the end of the world.

I learned that recently from someone else too. That’s kinda cool it can work like that. But, it was leaking to outside of hub, I rebuilt it before dinner. I’m gonna deal with the parking brake in the morn.

 

[Rusty Marlin]

If you're getting diff oil on brakes you need to replace the seal between the inner bearing and the hub. But you can leave out the axle tube seal.
I just did this job last weekend. After I packed the new bearings and hub with grease and changed all seals, I learned that's perfectly fine to run the rears in diff oil, which they were, and they were very happy to do so.
If I'm ever in there again, I'll strip the grease and axle seal and run them in diff oil. While my rear bearings while a little loose, they where immaculate. They looked new.

 

[HardyDanger]

Is it me or is the fitting flared beyond normal? Passenger rear hardline. None of the others looked like this.

 

[HardyDanger]

Normal.

 

[HardyDanger]

While waiting for new rear rotors to show up. (Tried turning them but no bueuno). I dropped the headliner and tackled the leaky sunroof. Rear gutter drains were attached, clogged.

Power flushed with this pump sprayer. The nozzle perfectly fit ID of hose.

Then snaked with coated aircraft cable

Then reassembled and loaded the tray with water and watched it all come out!!

 

[Rusty Marlin]

Good productive day.
Got mine all put back together yesterday. Made a dump run today, not overly glorious, but good solid work for a truck.

 

[HardyDanger]

Blarg....bled the brakes. Not Building pressure...reading Guessing I need to bleed the master. FSM is not specific. Says remove brake lines? both the top too or just one on the outside (in the little illustration)? Can this be don't without bench bleeding? Will I need to do all four corners and LSPV again?

 

[HardyDanger]

thinking I didn't pump enough fluid through and there's air trapping in the high points....might try to push another quart through each corner