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With the newly painted bumper, I washed her up and took a 100 mile trip up to the mountains to visit family. This was the first time sleeping in it since Fall 2019. I've only driven it on a couple short drives just to exercise it. | (1 Comments) | Time to look at the stub axles. I found the passenger side has some slop between the yoke and axle. Hopefully it just needs serviced and re-tightened up. | plenty of room to roll around underneath.... |
stub axle snap ring | I've done a couple stub axle jobs, and until now, I fought getting the internal snap rings out because I didn't have the correct tool. I purchased these Knipex 44 11 J3 40-100mm internal snap ring pliers and life is beautiful. | The yoke nut was loose, but that wasn't the issue, the axle's forward/backward rotational movement was between the drive flange and axle splines. | You can clearly see the worn teeth. This axle could have gone another 20k miles?? I don't know? But it's not going back into the FMC I'm driving. I will keep it as an emergency spare. |
After I pulled the yoke off, I could see the beautiful clean blue in color (probably synthetic) grease inside the axle cavity, I honestly did not want to tear it apart, the bearings were clearly lubed perfectly, BUT I had to see the drive flange end of the axle. Yes, I could have just pulled the drive flange off and inspected, but if you are just planning on servicing stub axle bearings, removing the drive flange is unnecessary. | This is the reason I haven't been working on 324 as much as I would like to...I'm putting disk brakes on it, the rear is done. | 1953 cj3b. 1963 Corvette 327, with a 1968 Mustang GT top-loader 4-speed. Should haul a$$! Was originally built in the early 70's as sand dragger. It had been setting for the last 7-10 years before I bought it. Someone added a winch and some poorly designed power steering, I think it was used to pull logs around the property and drive through mud holes up in WA state.... | |
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