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rear end blows
well i have noticed the driver side axle moving in and out excesivly and i thought it may have been the C clip and boy was i wrong here is a pic of the gear set its the baring on the left
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...k/100_0366.jpg
here is a pic of the baring cap that is tore up it has bad groves on the out side but i dont think you can see it in the pic
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...k/100_0367.jpg
and her is a pic of a little trash on the magnet pen
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...k/100_0370.jpg
what do you think caused this or is it just catastrofic failure??
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Thats not a catastrophic failure. Thats just a failure. I'd show you a catastrophic failure but putfile died and took all my pictures with it. To sum it up it took the rear end, rear end cover. Driveshaft. Amazingly it did not take out my transfer case.
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ya, lucky it didnt blow... usually will send the pin through the cover and destroy alot of good parts... whats ur plan now, detroit?
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Is that Slidell TX or OK? Hope it's the former but if the latter then holler.
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The pin went through the cover? Wow. When I broke 2-3 of mine the pin always came out and destroyed both the carrier and the gear set but never got out of the housing.
Good job! :thumb:
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ive had 2 come out the cover just like that...lol
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well my plans are tomorrow im going to take it all the way apart and see what all went wrong ...the first sighn was the axle was pushing out and the rottor and it was rubbing on the calliper bracket thing ...i have the eaton posi with 373s and i dont really know what im going to do now because i just had the four link redone with knew coil overs and im hoping that it didnt mess up the axle ..
im in slidell la.
well this happend two years ago
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...nthecoast1.jpg and i think it may have started all this mess .....it took out one side of my four link,exsaust,hole in the gas tank and some other crap it spit it out the tail shaft of the trans(this was when it was bagged)
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why would the left side shims look like this??
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...Picture002.jpg
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...Picture005.jpg
every thing is layed out on the correct side so i can find out what exactly happend
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...Picture007.jpg
need help im dumd founded how this would happend and i cant find out where all the shavings and pices of metal came from
thanks
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How do the rollers on the side bearings look? Usually the hardness comes off in flakes sticking to the magnet. As the bearings wear, they get thinner taking up side bearing preload (the shims have to be forced in slightly to put pressure on the side bearings). When the preload is gone the carrier can move side to side. Who did the previous install? It would be nice to know how much preload was put on the side bearings with shims. I can tell it's been into as the factory puts one large cast iron spacer and one shim per side, service procedure has you put a steel spacer and multiple shims to take up the extra space and add preload. I reuse the cast iron spacers anyway 'cause it's a hassle to stack up a bunch of steels but they are brittle being cast iron and will crack if hammered in improperly.
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the bearing races look good but the outer part of the left bearing is chewd up a bit and the bearing it self looks to be egg shapped a little i tryd to take a pic but it was to blury .....the guy that did it for me is going to come over and take a look at it
the bad part is my truck has been sitting in the garage for 11 months or so and it only has 23000 miles on her ...it stays in the garage broke ....this is an easy fix i hope..then maybe i will put down some good numbers at the track..im trying to get all the little bugs worked out before they turn into a bad head ake
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well i got it back together today and tuesday im going to get it scaled out and get the bars adj. and get it finished up
im hopeing to go to the track wed. night
