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Offline chardrc

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Re: axle swap
« Reply #15 on: March 22, 2007, 05:13:25 PM »
ouch thats too bad.. you were making alot of progress.
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Offline Jeffy

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Re: axle swap
« Reply #16 on: March 22, 2007, 05:37:03 PM »
effing front rusted [censored], all the 4wd vaccum assembly bolts broke, no  swap morow, oh well 2wd wheeling this weekend

So why did you have to take the cover off anyway?
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lanulos89

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Re: axle swap
« Reply #17 on: March 22, 2007, 07:41:40 PM »
the guy i bought them from dropped the axle and smashed the vaccum assembly :guns:

lanulos89

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Re: axle swap
« Reply #18 on: March 23, 2007, 05:42:11 PM »
new plan of action is to take the ring and pinion out of the old axle and swap them into the axle that is currently installed in my jeep.  im gonna end up plasma cutting this axle apart to even get the gears out, its really rust.  so no 4wd for a while now which is kinda aggravating, i guess ill be going 2 wheeling instead of 4 wheeling

Offline Jeffy

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Re: axle swap
« Reply #19 on: March 23, 2007, 06:06:45 PM »
new plan of action is to take the ring and pinion out of the old axle and swap them into the axle that is currently installed in my jeep.  im gonna end up plasma cutting this axle apart to even get the gears out, its really rust.  so no 4wd for a while now which is kinda aggravating, i guess ill be going 2 wheeling instead of 4 wheeling

Why not just clean up the axle and extract the broken bolts?
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lanulos89

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Re: axle swap
« Reply #20 on: March 23, 2007, 11:13:51 PM »
i need new u joints  in the axle shafts, not sure what they are called exaclty., and i cant get the three bolts that hold either shaft loose, impact gun, heat nothing is working .  so i figure cut them apart and take the gears and throw them in and take the loss on the front axle.  200 to regear still isnt too shabby

Chad

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Re: axle swap
« Reply #21 on: March 24, 2007, 12:56:36 AM »
what kind  of school do u attend? we couldn't do nething but shutup and listen at my high school,they built us a brand new school and traded in the shop for a new computer lab for cad drawing

lanulos89

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Re: axle swap
« Reply #22 on: March 24, 2007, 06:43:56 AM »
in my high school senior year, you onl;y have to have 4 class credits, i could either do half day of high school, or they offer a boxes program, its a career technical institue as they all it.  i get my four credits in the afternoon.  so pretty much its i goto a diff building in the morn to a full size shop where they teach us about cars, touch the basics you need to be a tech.  most of the kids there cant even do brakes, so me and a couple of my friends there are way ahead, and the teacher knows so he pretty much lets us do what we want.  the week before last we pulled an engine and trans out of a 92 celica and swapped it in to a different celica, in 9 hours book time is 14.

Offline chardrc

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Re: axle swap
« Reply #23 on: March 24, 2007, 07:23:52 AM »
nice... my school shop is ok... we have a few mills and laves but for working on cars... the shop teacher has been working on converting his 4banger Toyota truck into a hydraulic driven truck.. for the last 2 years and still hasn't gotten much done so we cant really do anything there...
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might4banger

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Re: axle swap
« Reply #24 on: March 24, 2007, 07:31:53 AM »
lanulos89 -

When I replaced my vac. assembly, I broke some of the bolts that hold it on. Once the heads were removed I pried the vac cover off. Soaked the remains in PB Blaster a few times and barely got them out with vice grips... Had a just enough to get them out.

The other bolts you can't get loose are the 3 that hold the unit/wheel bearings in right ? Try pulling the brake calipers and rotors off and get to the back side of the bolts... (I think they go all the way thru.)
 
Something else you might try is to heat them up cherry red and quench them with water. That usually breaks anything loose!

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Re: axle swap
« Reply #25 on: March 24, 2007, 08:50:11 AM »
Yeah, PB Nut Blaster is supposed to be the best. 
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lanulos89

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Re: axle swap
« Reply #26 on: March 24, 2007, 07:37:26 PM »
tha xle is stripped, to bare minumums, im just gonna swap the gears, i dont give up guys, anyways, my fornt in my jeep now is in like 10000000000 times better condition than the other one.

lanulos89

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Re: axle swap
« Reply #27 on: April 19, 2007, 01:03:14 PM »
ok well yea oil change on jeep today, pulling it onto thealignment rack teacher notices the drve shaft spins a whole turn b4 is grabs the gears, yaya AXLE REBUILD.  shit never ends with this axle swap tale.  pinion gear is loose and is moving in and out.  great day 150 bucks at jeep and i got the parts, just need to start doing it,  got every thing all bearing and seal to completely rebuild the axle.  cant wait to rip it open yet again....

Offline chardrc

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Re: axle swap
« Reply #28 on: April 19, 2007, 04:33:41 PM »
man i had totally forgotten about your axle swap.. good luck with the rebuild.
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Offline aw12345

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Re: axle swap
« Reply #29 on: April 19, 2007, 06:21:03 PM »
When you regeared the axle are you sure you collapsed the collapsible spacer om the pinion sounds to me you did not collapse it it takes a lot of torque to do so or a very good 1/2 impact. Which is my prefered method. Otherwise it takes something close to 350 to 400 lbs/ft to collapse it. Either way you keep tightening till there is no play then spin pinion about10-20 revolution then check with an pound/inch scale beam or dial torque wrench
it should have 10-15 lbs/inch torque while turning near 10 for used bearings near 15 for new bearings.
I hope this gets you on the right track

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