Well after 6 freaky hours I'm done. Here I thought that swapping out a front IFS would be easy (it was the last two times I did it....).

All said and done the new 4.56 front with the Lockrite in it is in the rig. After fighting with the stub shaft (and the confusion that came with it), locating a seal that was completely missing and spraying all the sand out of the diff I can now say that the install is done.


Heck I'm too tired to even go try it out.......

 

Nice!! Good job man!!

 

I'll tell you that we got the old one out in just under 40 minutes. If it had been a straight swap we'd have been done in under two hours. Next time I'll rebuild the damn diff on a bench before I get ready to install it, if there is a next time.

 

you didn't look it over before you put it in? way to go, WAY TO GO...

 

Sweet dude. I just saw a 7.5 lockrite on craigslist last week. And an 8" v6 Aussie. Still haven't heard from anyone that has tried the v6 version.

 

Yeah laugh it up. Let me tell you how the day went.....

Before we put the locked front in my friend noticed that there was some gear oil leaking out of the drivers side shaft at the end. Well we decided that it would be better to check out the seal while it was out of the truck, good thing we did.

I thought that the little C clips on the inside had to be removed before you could pull the axle out (live and learn) so we pulled the diff cover only to realize two things.
1) you can't even see the damn clip.
2) the diff was loaded with sand.

So several hours of online looking (a post here) and lots of time looking at the diff I finally realized my mistake and just grabbed a dead fall hammer and beat the shaft out. When we got the tube off and looked we figured out how sand had gotten into the diff. There wasn't a seal in there at all.

Into town we go to find an axle seal, man I love the guys behind the counter, and after explaining that I did not need either a front main for a V6 or the front main for an auto transmission we had the part. Once we got it all all cleaned out, put back together and full of fluid it took half an hour to get it installed.

Tomorrow my friend I'm going wheeling even if we do get hit by the giant snow storm that is supposed to blow in.

 

Hey Junks, now that your done, wanna drive to Wa, and gimme a hand putting the lockright in the rear pumpkin of my runner????? LOL. Good job, dude!

 

Full of sand? geeezus.


Sounds like it's time to hit the trails!

 

junkers , where did you get the seal and whats the part number on that.


and glad you made it through that ok !!

 

I got it at Autozone but have no idea what the part number is. Sorry.

 

Easier to cut off IFS than put a locker in one.

 

Yeah the front can be a pita for sure. Just gota be patient and not get frustrated. My rear was way easier. Great job! You will love it!