Trying to replace my carrier bearing and aparently my guibo too:thumbdwn: and i for the life of me can not get the driveshaft out. I have un bolted the 4 nuts on the rear of the shaft (to the diff) and the 6 nuts on the guibo removing the 3 bolts i can get out. carrier bearing is un bolted too, now from the looks of it the shaft should collapse or slide in on its self and give you room to drop it out but no such luck.
probably a simple answer but its appretiated nun the less, really want to have the dirty thirty ready for the upcoming auto x and the rally-x after that.
Is there not a threaded nut at the center of the shaft that you can turn with a large wrench? So that shaft may slide inward. Also lower trans suppro bracket a little to give yourself a little more room to move the shaft a bit.
ok i see the nut, went a bought a pipe wrench so i had something to fit it, but now that too massive to fit on it and have any room w/o hitting the exhaust...which i cant pull because the PO decided to fit a long tube header and striped one of the bolts holding the 2 pipes onto the header
Avoid dis-assembling the prop shaft into two pieces! If you have to do this...first mark the two sections so that you can re-assemble it in exactly the same position...failure to do this can lead to vibration at certain speeds!
i disasembled it (needed to replace the CSB) but marked it first went back to gether fine, cant belive i missed the giant nut ha ha oh well, now she is still vibraating under hard loads at low speeds, if you baby the throllte no issues, i have tried re preloading the bearing so many times i want to shoot myself, so it leads me to belive the the guibo, which is showing some age is the culprate (sp?) guss ill order that tonight and repeat the process, unless you guys have another idea?
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