Finally got around to swaping my bent front housing for an '85 housing I had on a beater project that had my gussets and everything on it. This gave me a chance to refresh seals, wipers and repack everything with grease etc. I went and did the martacks on my axles this time. I left the c-clips out last time and without martacks I had alot of grease migrate into my gear oil since the seals didn't line up ideally on the axles.
I also did a little more tuning on my front springs. I am using some longer 3rd gen pickup rears that are old many emu springs. They had one long arch leaf from another rear pack added and still handled a little floppy on the new configuaration. I want everything to get lower and handle better so I took out the long leaf and put then two bottom leaves from some stock front packs under the top three emu leaves. Then I trimed the emu overload a bit and put it back on the bottom. Stock front springs have alot more leaf material to the rear of the spring and I think there is an engineering reason for this, probably trying to keep them soft over minor bumps but still have some resistance to body roll and axle wrap I'm guessing. They are flatter, a little lower and a bit stiffer. We'll see how it does.
