MIKEMOKAS

looking forward to hearing about your install.

insert the axle shaft carefully.

MIKEMOKAS

haha, screw that home mechanic way of removing the axleshafts.... that crap sucks.

heading into town now with my tail betwewen my legs... hating that i have to pay to have them removed...

dang.

dirtoyboy

Unless you like doing this often...I would recommend Koyo Toyota bearings.. and set your preload correctly

any other bearings are junk IMO...especially trail gears.....I wouldnt wish those bearings on my worst enemy

rngrchad

I was just getting ready to post, but then read toyboy's post. He pretty much said just what I was going to say. I too would buy quality bearings as I have learned the hard by having to grind-out cheap bearing races time and time again after they grenade.....and trust me you do not want to have to take a die-grinder and cut out super-hardened bearing races.

GSGALLANT

This is a rear bearing we're talking about here...which isn't a tapered rolling element bearing. No preload setting required... and no grinding or cutting of races required. I do agree on getting quality bearings, though. You don't necessarily need to get KOYO (although they are great bearings). SKF and timken are also good bearings.

312necro213

Well, just like everything else you get what you pay for And they are all right, install a diff breather kit, it costs like $20 or if you want to do a nice one it costs like $50 and you will more then likely never have to redo the bearings again unless your doing something you really shouldn't be doing

MIKEMOKAS

update..

got all the bearings and seals gathered up so i went outside, set down a piece of plywood. and started bainging the axle against the ground..

after about 3 hits with some thick heavy duty gloves on my hands were throbbing..

i proceded to throw the axleshafts in the bed of my s10 and headed into town to do the presswork.. NOBODY would take on the task. it took my dad and i 3 days to find a shop that would do it in a 30 mile radius..

the guy that ended up doing it owned a engine building shop and was pretty much a one man show. he cut the collar off(which i dident want) but never knicked the axle.. ohh, and did it for 35 bucks.

but anyways.. its done now and all thats left to do is throw it on my truck..

the end. haha

InternetRoadkill

FYI, if you have a welder, the tool needed to press the rear bearings off is easy to make.

2wd_tuff

I made the tool needed to press the bearings and went to a friends shop and everything worked great. Just always remenber to remove the snap ring on the axle shaft it makes things easyer.
The first one i did (drivers side) went fine and I got everything put back together fine but now on the passenger side the axle shaft wont slide all the way in because it looks like there is a rod that hhas fallen blocking the axle from slipping into place. I know the axle is fine because the splines catch and can turn the diff. help me i dont know what to do and my dad says i have to pull the pumkin to fix it.