rear-end swap time!!!
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rear-end swap time!!! i have a 3.23 with open diff in there now...this is a 3.42 w/ posi rear-end out of a 2000 WS.6...i cleaned and painted it up...plus i got a 1 piece driveshaft for cheap...i mean CHEAP!
i'm sure it won't be that big of a difference but hell the fact that i no longer will do "one tire fires" is worth the price i paid for this rear...it had less than 60k miles on it too!
GAME ON!
so without further adu...or however you spell it...can anyone guess what i'm doing today?
i'm sure it won't be that big of a difference but hell the fact that i no longer will do "one tire fires" is worth the price i paid for this rear...it had less than 60k miles on it too!
GAME ON!
so without further adu...or however you spell it...can anyone guess what i'm doing today?
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well i was having trouble with the brakes getting them off and i sliced open my finger and had to go to the ER so the project was delayed...hopefully i can get back on it tomorrow...
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well...it's 2:30am...dang what a long day...
so i got the rearend on the ground about an hour and a half after i started, not bad...couple rusted bolts...
then the 2 piece driveshaft gave me a hell of a time, couldn't figure out for the life of me how to get that out...
then after getting that out, i spent about...2 hours trying to get the right rear brake line off...gave up...came back an hour later and ended up slicing my finger to the bone and having to go to the ER.
after spending a total of about 2 and a half hours in the ER, i got out, decided i was gonna get some bigger vicegrips so i went to Lowes, got those and a rubber mallot to get off the brake drums and headed back.
i didn't care what the nurse said i was getting **** done. went back got the brake line off in less than 30 minutes got it inside and then fell into ANOTHER hard ship...
the bolt that releases the center cylinder to hold the axles apart was COMPLETELY striped...****! so i drilled as much as i could...ended up bashing the crap out of it and then getting it out, an hour and a half later...
then after that it took me about an hour to convert everything over to the new rear and fill it up with fluid...
I AM NEVER DOING THIS AGAIN!!! THANK GOD!
so i got the rearend on the ground about an hour and a half after i started, not bad...couple rusted bolts...
then the 2 piece driveshaft gave me a hell of a time, couldn't figure out for the life of me how to get that out...
then after getting that out, i spent about...2 hours trying to get the right rear brake line off...gave up...came back an hour later and ended up slicing my finger to the bone and having to go to the ER.
after spending a total of about 2 and a half hours in the ER, i got out, decided i was gonna get some bigger vicegrips so i went to Lowes, got those and a rubber mallot to get off the brake drums and headed back.
i didn't care what the nurse said i was getting **** done. went back got the brake line off in less than 30 minutes got it inside and then fell into ANOTHER hard ship...
the bolt that releases the center cylinder to hold the axles apart was COMPLETELY striped...****! so i drilled as much as i could...ended up bashing the crap out of it and then getting it out, an hour and a half later...
then after that it took me about an hour to convert everything over to the new rear and fill it up with fluid...
I AM NEVER DOING THIS AGAIN!!! THANK GOD!
congrats again! 
