Blazer Revival 2005!

Wow, learned something new tonight...

Thought i didn't label the bearing caps when I took it apart several years ago. So I went to pirate and started searching... Nothing was in the Dana 60 bible about it. So I starte searching the conventional way. On each cap there is a letter stamped either horizontal or vertical, it's stamped the same way on the housing where the gasket lays.

So the letter A was stamped on mine... I'll take picture and post tonight, maybe it will help someone else.

In the end, I did label them, but I had the races stuck on the caps and it was hiding. However, I didn't remember which way it went, writing in or out.

that is how my dana44 was... still marked it when i took it apart just cause i didnt know at first

Every axle I've taken apart has had the caps marked in some way that made them obvious as to where they go.

but mine used a D and opposite way D

Ok I'm dumb, eat my ass :flipoff2:

I'm thinking someone has redone the axle seals at one point in time, unless orange RTV is factory. When I took the carrier out I thought it was odd it didn't have any shims, and I really hadn't thought about it till I was putting it back together. However, the carrier moves horizontally. I don't have a dial indicator here, but using a pair of calipers, it appears to move .015". I really don't have time for this ****! Any suggestions?

i have a dial indicator you can borrow

The carrier shims are behind the carrier bearings. Most of my axles' carriers have been loose enough to be removed easily, but I never had one worn enough to move sideways.

Look like you've got a few choices.
1. Reset the grears. Lots of fun pressing bearings on and off.
2. Put shims in the wrong spots to make it tighter.
3. Say fawk it, it's made it this far, should make another 20 years.

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Originally Posted by Shaggy

i have a dial indicator you can borrow

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we've got a couple at work, but thanks for the offer

I think I'm going to bring some shim stock home from work and mess with it a little. I'll do it right after the clayton trip. Hopefully it will be ok

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Originally Posted by Doug Krebs

Ok I'm dumb, eat my ass :flipoff2:

I'm thinking someone has redone the axle seals at one point in time, unless orange RTV is factory. When I took the carrier out I thought it was odd it didn't have any shims, and I really hadn't thought about it till I was putting it back together. However, the carrier moves horizontally. I don't have a dial indicator here, but using a pair of calipers, it appears to move .015". I really don't have time for this ****! Any suggestions?

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I have heard you should leave the carrier in the housing or things like that happen. Did the carrier just slide in? I have to beat mine in with a 2x4 and good size hammer. Thats how I set my preload. :gigem:

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Originally Posted by Doug Krebs

Ok I'm dumb, eat my ass :flipoff2:

I'm thinking someone has redone the axle seals at one point in time, unless orange RTV is factory. When I took the carrier out I thought it was odd it didn't have any shims, and I really hadn't thought about it till I was putting it back together. However, the carrier moves horizontally. I don't have a dial indicator here, but using a pair of calipers, it appears to move .015". I really don't have time for this ****! Any suggestions?

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that crappy orange rtv job is factory, that's how every front 60 i've seen is.

alright krebs, i've got multiple voicemails and pm's from naysayers who think i'll be heading up to clayton on Friday sans a trailer...what's it gonna be...I think you can pull it out. :beer:

i think he can... shouldnt be too hard not that much left to do

I'll bet a bottle of Jim Beam Special Reserve or whatever the hell it was, that he makes it! If not, swing through Dallas Thursday night and pick up my scout!

wanna drop down into Mississippi and snag the Ugly girl on your way here?

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Originally Posted by uglyota

wanna drop down into Mississippi and snag the Ugly girl on your way here?

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thought about it but I have time restrictions, and I'm cutting it close at it is.