This the update everybody has been waiting to see!!!!!!!!!!!
Saturday 3/17/07
This is the way or break weekend to see if I even had a shot at getting to Moab on the 23rd.
Big thanks to my brother and bro-in-law for the help! We got the brakes bled, clutch bled, power steering system bled, and coolant in the truck.
EROCK made a square front driveshaft, he's getting good at fab'ing them.
This is how she sat Saturday morning.
My brother made me a sweet square front shaft. There is a total of 16" of slip.
Front shocks are in. Bilsteins are hard to install since they are gas pressurized.
We had to redrill the flange off of the back of the rear t-case to accept the larger bolt pattern of the CV'ed rear shaft.
In the process of impacting the flange nut off, the speedo gear slipped on the rear main shaft of the t-case. It sliped pass the detent ball and then somehow rotated 1/20 of a turn. When I went to install the flange after being drilled, it didn't fit. I tried everything and even put the flange on and got a large socket and tried to tighten it on.
Well, I had to take a small cover off of the rear of the t-case and see what was up. Sure enough, the speedo gear was turned and not lined up with the detent ball and was jammed on it. I pryed and pryed. It ended up taking my dad to pound it off the next day.
Rear brake proportioning valve is on!
Engine bay back together!
