It's been a good past few weeks for the cruiser over here!
Went ahead and refreshed the front axle as an ongoing overall refresh of the truck before I get real serious about powerplant transfers. The truck was in some pretty serious need of attention for the steering, braking, and continence...
You know how it goes, the list of "things you might as well do while you are down there" gets progressively longer the more you work on the truck...So this time around in the shop I replaced/serviced:
- Inner/Outer wheel bearings
- Trunion bearings
- Inner axle seals
- Cleaned & repacked birfields
- Cleared debris from axle after past birfield failure damage
- hub assembly degrease
- 4x new front brake lines
- Front calipers replaced
- Front rotors & pads replaced
- Brake fluid flushed
- P/S pressure line replaced
- P/S pump replaced
- 5x Tie Rod Ends replaced
- both steering links replaced
- steering stabilizer replaced
- alignment at the local fire tire.
I started with a teardown of the axles and got everything loaded up onto the partcart, and got real busy with a new HF parts washer.
After reshaping the inner axle housing of some birfield-explosion damage and thoroughly cleaning out the axle of debris, the reassembly process begun. I made use of the Wits End seal overdriver and that really simplified the process for the IAS as well.
Didn't take long to see that most of my tie rod ends needs to be replaced, as well as the rotors, calipers, pads....So additional components were ordered and the rebuild began.
Took a few in progress shots but let's skip to the good stuff. I'm still chasing down a little hissing and air entry into the P/S system. but soon we will be back to business!
