shawn

I was replacing my 5.29 with 4.56's. I have a truetrac in the front currently. Now, we can't get the inner axle stubbs to pull out so we can proceed with the rest of the job. I've already done this once before when we had to pull them for other reasons. Before we just loosed the carrier bolts to hopefully take them out of a bind, but this time nothing works. It has tension rings or clips that hold them in that seat in a grove in the diff. I guess the tolerances are alot tighter in the truetrac vs. the factory front diff. Anybody had the same problems or any advice??????????? Oh yeah, its an 88 4runner 7.5 front.

ZUK

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shawn

The step where the use a hammer and a screw driver to drive the inner axles out isn''t possible with the truetrac. We have used everything to pull them out from the outside. The clips are boogered up inthere I figure. Mostly because, I'm guessing, the place inthe truetrac where the clips seat into the groove, must be tighter.

ZUK

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ahhh....you're right. :walk:

shawn

now what?

JamesD

Ship it to ZUK!!!

James

ZUK

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ha ha...ya, I'd say ship it to me but I'm a wuss and it's frikkin hot here now. I would use the power of persuasion...and a tap from a hammer while tension is applied....the shock wave would be enough to cause the compression ring to "give". Sounds like a 2 person job.....2 crowbars and a hammer.