Emergency - help - front axle issue (1 Viewer)

[wb1948]

I hate to make a dumb ass post like this, but I am doing a front axle rebuild, and have a concern. I was replacing the knuckle bearing races, and I beat on the bottom race for about 20 minutes until I finally got it in. Now that I look at it the ball(end part of the axle housing) seems to be tilted upwards. Is this how they are designed with top bearing tilted back and bottom bearing pushed out? Or did I bend my axle frame? Or is it even possible to do this with a big ass hammer?

 

[IdahoDoug]

Impossible. The slight angle you're seeing is called the kingpin angle and it's designed that way.

DougM

 

[Rookie2]

My trunion bearing races were a bear to get out too. It was making nuggets out of the end of my brass drift. I had to use a steel drift to work them out, and it still took some considerable beating. I too was concerned I could have bent the axle end. I think there's some kind of opticle illusion going on, or maybe that's just the way it is, but zipped it up and was all good.

By the way, the birf section floating around on that other thread is not a to scale and accurate rendering of the 80's birfield. I think it's was originally taken from another Toy vehicle, but posted to illustrate the general conditions. The trunion bearings are not tilted over like that picture, in an 80.


Rookie2

 

[wb1948]

I am a paranoid freak sometime. About 20 minutes after posting this I realized how unreasonable my worries were, plus I looked at the knuckle cavity angle on the other side and realized it was the same on the other side.

Someone delete this before my reputation is tarnished.

 

[turbocruiser]

I am a paranoid freak sometime. About 20 minutes after posting this I realized how unreasonable my worries were, plus I looked at the knuckle cavity angle on the other side and realized it was the same on the other side.

Someone delete this before my reputation is tarnished.

Dude, take it easy on yourself, you are doing your own work, you are learning from your own mistakes as well as from what you did right that you thought was a mistake! That's how we all do things I think. to you i say!

 

[bjowett]

You must be a gorillililililalalalalala to bend that bell... dayam!!!!!

Seriously, people that don't make mistakes just suck!

 

[Lars]

I agree with the above 2 posts... it' all part of the learning process.

 

[RavenTai]

By the way, the birf section floating around on that other thread is not a to scale and accurate rendering of the 80's birfield. I think it's was originally taken from another Toy vehicle, but posted to illustrate the general conditions. The trunion bearings are not tilted over like that picture, in an 80.


Rookie2

the 80 knuckle it tilted over pretty good, the pic has to be an original 80 picture, it shows the ABS sensor and ring on the birf, also the calipers are pistoned on both sides, any previous land cruiser have 4 piston calipers? the end has a drive plate instead of hub locks. also the star of the birf is shown without cutouts like the earlier birf.

 

[brownbear]

You must be a gorillililililalalalalala to bend that bell... dayam!!!!!

hairless ape! sometimes heat makes things move nice. use a heat gun if it is really stiff. I would not use a torch. It would burn oil bad. the heat gun would help expand the metal.