I done showed you once.

You can upgrade the brakes when you do the high crossover steering as you gotta take the rims off again anyway. I'm going to do mine soon...as I actually thought I already had. :pat:

Looks good so far. :bigclap: I'll catch you tomorrow...lots of work to do.

 

So once the wheel hub assembly is off I could remove the seal & inner wheel bearing:







Now I remove the knuckle spindle dust shield:











Which allows the whole dust shield to come off: I set it on the leaf spring.

 

I hear ya...get some sleep, us whipper snappers go all night...

Work? You must be fabbing an exo for me right? :bigclap:

I bet the other side is fine, I may only run half a longfield...

Later!

 

Looks like it has been a LONG time since all that stuff has come off/out...maybe never. Replace all the stuff that came in the knuckle kit...like that rusted spindle dust shield.

 

Yeah, I am going to rebuild the knuckles. I got the time & can get the tools tommorrow. I'd be shortcutting at this point not to.

 

Once the dust cover is off, the knuckle spindle can be removed:







Which exposes the objective, the axle shaft...



I felt like I was delivering a baby....



Here she is:



After delivery...





Inner axle seal: (this little thing gave me quite a headache, I didn't have a seal puller)

 

Splines turn the axles, they are attached to the gears. (Somebody correct me if I'm wrong)

Wheel what you can, don't worry. I went to Tellico & rode the easier trails, I had just bought my truck & knew it wasn't built for the harder trails (yet). No worries, we'll have a good time. I still have to take it easy because of my stock steering.

 

Ok, sorry this is taking longer than I thought, but I have to stop every few minutes & clean the grease off to take a pic, then upload a few while the info is still fresh in my mind. My "helper" is out of town this week so be patient & I'll be done soon.

 

After a hour of hammering on the knuckles, I decided not to remove & rebuild them. Too much of a PITA... I have to do all that stuff when I do the steering mod anyway.
So the plan is re-install the new 30 splines with the new hub gears & ride tomorrow.

 

OK, so I put the new seal in. I tapped it in with a piece of wood so as not to damage it.





all seated in...



Time to put these in:



put them together & tapped it in



insertion...

 

Got it almost all the way in & hit the diff: :complain:







so I reached around & turned the driveshaft & then it slid it all the way. I think this is fully seated:





So I have to repack the knuckle with grease & button her back up using some new parts from the rebuild kit & change out the hub gears & then do the other side.

 

ok lunch time. Plus I have to get a seal puller for the other side, I ain't going through that again.

 

So I pack the knuckle around the birf with gease:



then apply sealant to attach the spindle:



I bolt the spindle on so the sealant cant take hold:



While all that stuff is drying I clean out the wheel hub for the new bearings:





Grease it up & put it in:





Then the seal:



Same wood handle from a paint roller...

 

Flip it over & pull the old crap off:



Sealant:



New crap:



Then back on: (this is where I first noticed what was a problem, the whell hub would not slide all the way back to where it sat originally & bolted to the caliper...



Bearing: (yes I added grease no pic)





Now to put this junk back on:







Here is where I run out of room:



Have I not seated the axle all the way?

That is the only thing I can think of why it wont go on. I have tightened it down so much now I can't even spin the wheel hub.

Any ideas or see anything I did wrong?

 

Around the birf once it is seated...fill that area FULL of grease...as better to have too much than too little. Good thing is on the other side you can still pump in some through the grease fitting cause IMO that wasn't enough.

Looking good. Now if you could only sell my tires. :pat:

 

Only thing wrong for no room...birf ain't in all the way...their a bitch.

 

Well it looks like I am going to have to pull it all back down to the birf... I swear I thought it was seated (see pics) One way to tell I suppose is put it in 4wd & spin the shaft, if the axle spins I'm in right? :pat:

Is there a certain way to put the wheel hub back on that I may have overlooked?

When you sell your tires you're getting a set I reckon...

 

That is the only reason I know of that everything won't fit...the birf isn't seated. Remember how much fun I had seating the other one...you are swapping that one out anyway, take the other side off and see how far it is in (seated) and compare.

Yes, the shaft should spin. There is a spot where it feels in, but it isn't, then there is that last little fit in where it is in the diff spindles. We had to turn the d-shaft and the axle to get things lined up just right, remember. Make sure you got the smaller dust shield turned the correct way, and everything else.

 

sounds good, I'll pull that other side & compare. It's pouring buckets outside now so It'll have to wait AGAIN... I won't chance that lightning, I swore too much today after it didn't fit...

Did the smaller cover look wrong to you?

I put the spindle on as tight as I could, I'm looking back at the pictures & it has to be the birf not seated. Damn, I wanted to wheel tomorrow.

 

That stuff goes on one way pretty much, so it has to be the birf.

I spent all day cramming a 1st gen roll bar into a 3rd gen 4Runner...not quite finished but it fit like a glove after I got it modified...should finish it up after it and some sliders get powder coated and then installed. I'm sure pics will be up eventually.