o there are onloy 2 gaskets? I have one right infront of me. Its like a star shaped gasket made from paper. Its real beat and torn though. BUT is that all I need are two of those?

 

one round and one star gasket per side is all there is... well them and the O-ring in the dial...
thanks for the IH8mud link Jay really nice clear colour photo's... now I just have to get off my tail and re-build/install mine...

 

So i got snap rin pliers..got it out ok. NOW I cant find that little spring...uh-oh. I got the ball, but what do i do about the spring?

 

OO and the other one didnt even have a spring in it...its like a TINY spring that i saw

 

Good thread, added the ih8mud link to fav's. I think I saw a thread about your truck a while ago, do you have a link? Curious about the buick 3.8..

 

^^ there are about 500 threads about my truck hah. Just search my name and you can read EVERY mod ive done since I got the truck. Any questions on the 3.8 feel free to PM me

 

yes, as Avaitor pointed out, there are 4 gaskets total for both hubs.
A gasket that seals the hub to the truck, and the gasket that seals the dial to the hub body.
I.E Star shaped = hub body-dial gasket
Round gasket= hub body to truck gasket.
Both available at the dealer for around 10 bucks

No problemo, now you have no excuses to not get your hubs rebuilt and installed

Are you sure the spring is not stuck inside the dial? Mine were due to grease. I had to use a paper clip end to grab onto it and slide it out.

 

Wab fab has the spring and ball for like $5 and $1 shipping. Look at the Downey rebuild kit here: http://www.downeyoff-road.com/Chassi...riveTrain.html
It shows all the gaskets, 2 round rubber, 2 star paper, and 2 round paper. 1 of each goes on each side, and you may not need the rubber ones, just depends on what kind of shape yours are in. Then you need the bolts. I looked up mine again and they were about 10 cents each, then if you want a couple of extras and whatever they cost to mail. You can PM me if your interested. Here is the part number and site. 91239A318
http://www.mcmaster.com/

 

OK..So I have both balls out and both springs. The springs are each likr 1/2 an inch long ide guess? Is that all that cmes out fo the dials?

 

Yep.

 

sweetace! Im painting everything now and cleaning all the parts. You KNOW pictures will follow

 

Yeah I've bought those gaskets twice now... lost them once... I may have to buy them again unless I find them back...again! D'OH!!!

 

I have a paint question..Im leaving the BASE of the HUBs raw metal...than painting the outsdie ring hammered grey. Its reay dark, and also the same color as my wheels. WHAT COLOR should I paint the dials? LEave them red and do white letters? Paint them white and do black letters. Just throw me some ideas.

 

Ha!! One day your going to be cleaning (or in my case moving is the only reason to clean) and you're going to find a whole closet full of hub gaskets.

 

I have a real old set for SFA that were blue so I went with that, but my truck is blue too. If I had no other obvious reason to change it I would personally just stick with the red. OR... what have you got free in the garage right now?

 

the only paint i have in the garage is primer and hammered grey. Im keeping them red! but using a sudden touch of something..MWAHAHA u'll see lol

 

I've thought about doing mine Orange [I'm dutch] but it might end up looking like a badly faded red... what do you guy's think?

 

I left the dials red..and hand painted all the letters white ;-) I plan on the doing the same on the outer ring. They will be dark grey andi'll hand paint the LOCK and FREE white. Than clear coat over everything so it doesnt get chipped. SICK! lol

 

Oh my god! Hahahah Thats pretty silly man, well at least when you find them you will have enough for several re-builds in the future, right?

I would do the metal base, grey outter ring, and blue dial To look like the sfa hubs You can also just sand the paint off the raised letters then clear coat them. Im going to do that when I rebuild mine next.


.... a few months after I did this I found out the sfa hubs where blue

 

This shows the stages of cleaning/painting..in order that I did everything. ANy questions just ask!
Used this in a bucket to clean the parts

You can see how much dirt/grime came off!

Good old tooth bursh to scrub and paint thing to apply extra liquid

Nice and shiny ;-)

Hung and ready for primer

Paints I used

first coat of primer

First coat of HAMMERED grey

Original dials

My special touch to the red dials

This is where im at now


Im waiting for the outer rings to dry so I can paint the letters on there to. Than everything gets clear coated