Just as the title says...
I don't want to wait for my 10 bolt to explode with the 37s so I picked up a 1994 6 lug 14 bolt on the cheap. I have a 79 Dana 44 for the front end but the rear end goes in first.
Opened her up and she looked great. Went ahead and replaced the bearings and seals. Shafts were clean as could be. Magnet had really granular fine material on it, no chunks. all gears and spiders look good. It has a G80 but I'm going to replace it when it blows up if I wheel it hard.
Then the fun began with the angle grinder and wire wheels/flap disks/profanity/beer/sniffing toxic fumes.
This is how she started. Pretty ugly and heavy and a dark shade of corrosion.
Lightened her up a bit and just might have burned up the motor on my cheeeap angle grinder.
Ground down to the bone finally.
Cleaned her up and etched her before putting on the 1st coat of Por15
and POR 15 x 2 coats. Ready to rock and roll.
I'll get the disk brake kit on tomorrow and all bolted up, brake lines run as soon as i learn how to flare them and bend them, and then I should be ready to go. I'll need a proportioning valve I'm aware. Still trying to find which one is best.
I don't want to wait for my 10 bolt to explode with the 37s so I picked up a 1994 6 lug 14 bolt on the cheap. I have a 79 Dana 44 for the front end but the rear end goes in first.
Opened her up and she looked great. Went ahead and replaced the bearings and seals. Shafts were clean as could be. Magnet had really granular fine material on it, no chunks. all gears and spiders look good. It has a G80 but I'm going to replace it when it blows up if I wheel it hard.
Then the fun began with the angle grinder and wire wheels/flap disks/profanity/beer/sniffing toxic fumes.
This is how she started. Pretty ugly and heavy and a dark shade of corrosion.
Lightened her up a bit and just might have burned up the motor on my cheeeap angle grinder.
Ground down to the bone finally.
Cleaned her up and etched her before putting on the 1st coat of Por15
and POR 15 x 2 coats. Ready to rock and roll.
I'll get the disk brake kit on tomorrow and all bolted up, brake lines run as soon as i learn how to flare them and bend them, and then I should be ready to go. I'll need a proportioning valve I'm aware. Still trying to find which one is best.