Regearing project (1 Viewer)

[juane]

Mike,
Greg can help you paint the drive shafts with candy stripes.
juane

Yes, the diffs are going back in on Saturday, one way or the other. The rear is almost ready for the axles. Right hub is back on and the parking brake adjusted. Just need to bolt up the caliper on that side. I should have the left side finished tonight too. Brake system is flushed and all 4 calipers loaded with new pads. Drive shafts cleaned and lubed. Birfs disassembled, cleaned, and packed. I'm swapping sides this time. Still need to drive in the knuckle bearing races and start putting the knuckles back together. New lower knuckle studs and nuts.

Reassembly should go fairly quickly tomorrow.

-Mike-

 

[cruiserdan]

The parts man is in the bullpen warmed up......

Faced my first batter (James) and let him have it....

Jon walks up to the plate and gets his while James is paying.....

 

[BionicCruiser]

sorry i couldn't make it. i got OT at work.

 

[pappy]

Jon walks up to the plate and gets his while James is paying.....

Ya, well maybe. I was buying FZJ80 parts, and they sure were not for me!

 

[Cruisergreg]

Mike,
Greg can help you paint the drive shafts with candy stripes.
juane

I suggested it but he didn't bite.

 

[Beowulf]

A big "Thank You" to everyone that helped get the diffs in. Rory, Jon, & Greg were here early. The Rory-jack worked very good on the rear. Ali, Graham, and Onur came by to make sure everything was going OK. Onur cannot resist getting dirty when he is around wrenches and trucks.

Birfs disassembled, cleaned, and packed. I'm swapping sides this time.

For the arm chair quarterbacks, it appears swapping sides on the birfs was a bad idea. This was 100% my decision. I will have more information later.

-Mike-

 

[pappy]

For the arm chair quarterbacks, it appears swapping sides on the birfs was a bad idea. This was 100% my decision. I will have more information later. -Mike-

Are you leaking? If you are going back in that deep you might want to take care of that too. Insurance.

 

[Beowulf]

Are you leaking?

No leaks Jon but I wish it was a leak. I am about 80% sure a birf cage let go.

-Mike-

 

[pappy]

No leaks Jon but I wish it was a leak. I am about 80% sure a birf cage let go.

-Mike-

LONGFIELDs
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[Beowulf]

This is a possibility. It has been reported that Bobby says they should last ~60k with normal driving. I am driving the Cruiser about 7k per year now so a set of Longs would last me about 8 years. I can live with that.

First I gotta make sure that is the problem.
-Mike-

 

[Beowulf]

Long side birfield is busted into little bits and pieces. The cage of course. I have a spare that was heat treated a few years ago, called a Smurf'd birf. I think I am going to throw that in for now. The two birfields were disassembled, one at a time so that I could make sure they went back together correctly. I am certain they were both assembled the same way so if one was put together wrong then the other one was probably put together wrong.

If the short side birf fails this week then I did a royal screw up and put them together wrong (not impossible but I don't think I did.) If it doesn't fail then I will draw the conclusion that my mistake was swapping sides. Either way, I messed up.

Putting in the spare will give me some time to decide on replacements and I am leaning toward Newfields for the reason mentioned above. (Sorry Dan.)

-Mike-

 

[Cruiserdrew]

B--

Impressive.

What were you doing when yours broke? I've seen the 80 birfs take major abuse and only seen 1 failure.

I wanted to give you a data point from Norcal Sam"s truck. His Longfields were clicking loud enough to be annoying by 20k miles.

If you PM me your address, I will mail you a present that might make you feel better about this.

 

[OGBeno]

Wait a second--

You mean from yesterday to today you busted a birfield?

What side was it?

This is not good. This should not have happened with normal PM procedures.

Call me Mike, I have an extra OEM to donate.

-o-

 

[TroutRunner]

Let's see. Mike has broken truck now...Rory worked on truck...Rory's truck is always broken...Don't let Rory work on my truck.

G

 

[pappy]

Long side birfield is busted into little bits and pieces. The cage of course.

Mike,

 

[OGBeno]

LONGFIELDs
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Not worth it, IMHO.

 

[OGBeno]

Let's see. Mike has broken truck now...Rory worked on truck...Rory's truck is always broken...Don't let Rory work on my truck.

G

I disagree. He's had some small problems after a very large enema that his vehicle underwent...after all, we are not on the Araco line making these things.

 

[Cruisergreg]

Something had to go terribly wrong for a birf to grenade on a test run. Even if the circlip arrangement wasn't right the thing should have leaked, not grenaded. Different wear patterns aside. I doubt swapping sides caused this. As with the axle seals, perhaps you should call it a day around 7:00 pm or so when doing reassembly of anything.

 

[OGBeno]

Something had to go terribly wrong for a birf to grenade on a test run. Even if the circlip arrangement wasn't right the thing should have leaked, not grenaded. Different wear patterns aside. I doubt swapping sides caused this.

x2. Just talked with Mike. I'll be going over first thing in the AM to assess the situation and get Pristine on the road again.

 

[Cruiserdrew]

I like the idea that the cage or star was upside down. That would cause it to bind and metal fragments would result. I've never tried to put an 80 birf star in upside down to see if it fit. They don't on the earlier ones.