^^ right? Far better design.
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Hmmm, so are they lubed by the gear oil? I'm clearly a little green on this as most full floats I've seen have bearings like a front spindle.
What are those on?
What are those on?
jfz80
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Pretty sure both of those are on fords, Johnny’s is for sure. They still have similar wheel bearing setup but run in a gear lube bath. Kinda like when the 80 rear axle seal is compromised; and some folks even seem to think its ok to let those ride in similar fashion if the flange seal isnt leaking and slinging oil.
IIRC Toyota is the only one who uses grease packed wheel bearings in a FF rear axle application. My 14 bolt rear axle (chevy 1ton) uses oil bath wheel bearings, so do the dana equivalents (dodge/ford/chevy from 3/4t on up). When talking big boy axles like what rice and I pictured yesterday, all the way up to HDTs, all of them to my knowledge are oil bath with enormous oil capacities. For example, my ferd takes 3.5 gallons of gear oil in the rear end.
Oil bath is good because you have more thermal mass in fluid to pull heat out of the wheel bearings, and it's easy to change the wheel bearing lubrication by just draining and refilling the gear oil. Oil bath is bad because if you smoke a single wheel bearing, or the diff, you really should change all the wheel bearings, and the diff bearings, and flush the whole housing out real good. (assuming metal shavings are in the fluid)
Oil bath is good because you have more thermal mass in fluid to pull heat out of the wheel bearings, and it's easy to change the wheel bearing lubrication by just draining and refilling the gear oil. Oil bath is bad because if you smoke a single wheel bearing, or the diff, you really should change all the wheel bearings, and the diff bearings, and flush the whole housing out real good. (assuming metal shavings are in the fluid)
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Interesting. I have a 97 F250HD with a sterling rear. Haven't had the rear end apart, but I just assumed it was greased bearings.
Ima have to do a little research as I'm getting ready to do some maintenance on it. I did change the rear diff fluid on it and it didn't take anywhere near that much fluid.
Ima have to do a little research as I'm getting ready to do some maintenance on it. I did change the rear diff fluid on it and it didn't take anywhere near that much fluid.
Sterling same thing.
The "little" pickup truck axles like your sterling and my 14 bolt don't have crazy capacities, but the principles are the same. The differential is designed to flow oil down the axle tubes to the wheel bearings while moving just like the big stuff.
fourtrax
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don't think that can be turned 
Those ridges are wear indicators. The owner must have opted for the foot massaging brake pedal.
Agree. The physics behind it is pretty solid as well. We all know getting air close to the heat source improves cooling.
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I pre lubed an LS3 today. If you ever pre lubed a SBC you remember pulling the dizzy and using an extension shaft for the dizzy to oil pump. You hooked up your drill and ran the oil pump, I have memories of my father doing it when I was a kid.
No dizzy driven oil pump these days on GM motors so you need to pump oil through the motor through the galley. GM recommends this hand pump set up that is expensive as hell for what it is. I found this set up on Hot Rod magazine on line I believe. Basically an old style SBC oil pump mounted to a plate on the lid, a dizzy extension a couple hoses and some fittings. 8 quarts of 5-30 Dexos oil in the bucket.
You can see the pressure line in the upper left of the photo, blue fitting.
No dizzy driven oil pump these days on GM motors so you need to pump oil through the motor through the galley. GM recommends this hand pump set up that is expensive as hell for what it is. I found this set up on Hot Rod magazine on line I believe. Basically an old style SBC oil pump mounted to a plate on the lid, a dizzy extension a couple hoses and some fittings. 8 quarts of 5-30 Dexos oil in the bucket.
You can see the pressure line in the upper left of the photo, blue fitting.
Installing long tubes on my brothers Malibu tonight
Tomorrow installing a new fuel pin on the D90 and then may take it to the OHV park to see how it changed.
Tomorrow installing a new fuel pin on the D90 and then may take it to the OHV park to see how it changed.
tamiya body with a micro crawler drivetrain?
I got the same body sitting on a self and the crawler in storage
Way too busy and already have a project but another kind of dropped in my lap.
Andreas old jetta tdi is now our again. 2 years after I gave it to my sister she has destroyed the interior I installed before giving it to her and doesn't want to fix the CV axles or glow plugs. I'm going to pull.the motor, trans and all the new parts I put into it. Keep the motto sell the rest and then swap a mini for Andrea's eventual DD for if and when the focus dies (260k and still rock solid though).
Or if I can find a good old Chinook camper I'll swap.that and then convert to 4wd.
Motor will get upgraded injectors, turbo and tuning.
Andreas old jetta tdi is now our again. 2 years after I gave it to my sister she has destroyed the interior I installed before giving it to her and doesn't want to fix the CV axles or glow plugs. I'm going to pull.the motor, trans and all the new parts I put into it. Keep the motto sell the rest and then swap a mini for Andrea's eventual DD for if and when the focus dies (260k and still rock solid though).
Or if I can find a good old Chinook camper I'll swap.that and then convert to 4wd.
Motor will get upgraded injectors, turbo and tuning.
forgot to update this. We got the long tubes done, but the drivers side proved to be a little more difficult and bled into the next day so we didn't touch the defender other than drive it around my brothers property. So much nicer than the 110 I sold. Panorama back glass installed.
yeah, tamiya 1/24 model on a 1/24 ecx barrage chassis. I'm not sure it will be worth all the mods. it needs a smaller pinion gear to run slower, the reciever/esc is bit wonky, and the axle width is too wide for more than a semi, semi scale. .
your kit is the sports model, with all the aftermarket addons that an 80 series would need. mine is the cheaper basic kit.
I brought my 1983 fj40 home yesterday from concord. I was a trip, took 29 all the way home. At the 30th stop light i stop counting. I had to maintain high rpm for the truck not to cut off. Made it home and changed the carburetor. Now it starts right away. I am going to do brakes do general maintenance and run it for a while. I hope i can paint it at some point and fix the rust but i am happy so far.
