What did you do in your garage today?

[Shinyribs]

Welp. That was a shit show.

Carrier bearing in the truck showed up. Worked on that starting at 8am. By 10, I had the grinder out cutting the bearing race off. Wearing glasses, still managed to get something lodged into my eye. Dropped everything and look, saw something in there. Off to the ER.

Wait two hours. They tell me they can't help. I need to see an eye specialist tomorrow. Just show up. ya. right. I'm sure if I needed drugs they'd hook me right up though.

Get home around 1pm. Eye all messed up. Welp, truck still needs work. Cut the race off, get the shaft in the press, pop out the old one.

Spend and hour trying to get the new one pressed on with a pipe. The entire unit won't fit in the press. Get that squared away. Lube up the slip yoke. Mount up the ends. Go to mount up the new carrier bearing. Bolt holes aren't even close.

The bearing is identical, but the mounting surface is different. My dumbass only looked at the bearing itself, not the mounting holes.

So this entire day was a waste. Popped the shaft off, threw it in the Vitara. I'm just going to take it down to a driveline place. Have them do it. Have them balance it and throw all new u-joints in it. I'm done with this shit. Just give me the part to bolt in. Wasted an entire fucking day trying to save some money. so mad

Those days are the worst, man. Especially with the eye stuff you got going on. Hope you feel better soon, Woods.

 

[woods]

Those days are the worst, man. Especially with the eye stuff you got going on. Hope you feel better soon, Woods.

Welp, eye doctor this afternoon. I don't see anything in my eye, but it itches like hell. Something isn't right. I just want to gouge the thing out.

Good news is I called the local driveshaft shop. They're going to balance it and press in a new carrier. I asked about u-joints.

yea, I can do all three of them in about 20m.
Wait. You can do three u-joints in 20m?
ya. easy. be about $20 total and about $30 per u-joint (Dana Spicer).
SOLD!

I'd be screwing with each one for an hour.

So I'm dropping this all off first thing tomorrow morning. They'll press the new carrier on, balance it, take care of the u-joints. be a few hundred bucks. I'm fine with that. Not me spending a full day in the dirt using pipes and shit trying to press things on.

This probably won't even fix the issue I've been having with the truck.

 

[MVI]

Somewhere around 1990 I too did a full driveline to fix a vibration issue. I had new rims, new tires, balanced, all ok. Axle bearings checked. New Transfer case mount installed.
A new driveline was installed to fix it. NOPE.
Turned out one of the new tires was Out of Round, they warrantied it, new tire, Truck was Smooooth after that.


Wife recently did the whole stuff in the eye drill.
Turned out it was stuck under her eyelid, so you could not see it. Best of luck today at the DR.

 

[woods]

Somewhere around 1990 I too did a full driveline to fix a vibration issue. I had new rims, new tires, balanced, all ok. Axle bearings checked. New Transfer case mount installed.
A new driveline was installed to fix it. NOPE.
Turned out one of the new tires was Out of Round, they warrantied it, new tire, Truck was Smooooth after that.


Wife recently did the whole stuff in the eye drill.
Turned out is was stuck under her eyelid, so you could not see it. Best of luck today at the DR.

This has been across a few sets of tires. Front end rebuild. Wheel alignment. Rotated tires and had them balanced. Still there. After this, who knows. I guess I'll just run it until I hear a bang or something.

 

[Shinyribs]

Had a '66 Impala with a vibration that would change from day to day. Couldn't find a thing wrong anywhere and took it to have the tires checked. Three bent rims!

That explained why the severity of the vibration was random. Every once in a while they'd synch up I guess 😁

 

[MVI]

 

[woods]

Any thoughts what that could be?

u-joints, drive shaft, and carrier/support bearing have about ten miles on them. been fighting a vibration that shows up at 40mph. upon trying to diagnose it, we discovered this noise.

Austin , you're a truck guy. Thoughts?

 

[MVI]

Sounds like you need to open up the pumpkin and inspect. I'd guess a few teeth are out of spec on ring or spiders

 

[psykown]

Yeah Id be leaning towards the differential as well, this is where a stethoscope works great, makes it super easy to pinpoint where that noise is coming from

 

[psykown]

Had these boring and faded silver hubcaps on the truck and figured why not get some practice in on them, I am actually kind of happy with how they turned out, now time to clean up the rims and decide what color to Cerakote them

 

[Austin]

Any thoughts what that could be?

Does it do that when the other wheel is free to spin?

 

[woods]

Does it do that when the other wheel is free to spin?

Yep. Sound from both sides. I chock the driver's, passenger spins and it clicks. Remove the chock, driver's spins, and it clicks. Though, I click the locker and it sounds like it goes away.

Sounds like you need to open up the pumpkin and inspect. I'd guess a few teeth are out of spec on ring or spiders

Guess that is the next step. And if it is, rebuilding a rear end is out of my league.

This is fantastic. I haven't not had a single issue with any of the vehicles for about a year now.

 

[woods]

I think I've reached my end point. I'm going to drop the truck off somewhere. Let them put it on the rack, listen to the clicking, check out the vibration. They can pull the cover. I mean, I pull the cover then what? Bunch'a metal comes out. Well, I'm not doing all those bearings. I don't have the time, space, or resources for that kind of job. I'm going to just have to send it somewhere and get fucked. Maybe I can sell a house to buy a new truck. I just don't know anymore.

 

[MVI]

Randys ring and pinion, sells a kit with everything you need, not bad on price, and their book for $29 on how to service and install gears is worth it's weight in gold.

 

[MVI]

 

[woods]

Randys ring and pinion, sells a kit with everything you need, not bad on price, and their book for $29 on how to service and install gears is worth it's weight in gold.

I think I've approached the point of my life, I'm going to swipe a card and spend the next three days on a motorcycle with a fishing pole latched to the tail rack.

 

[MVI]

That is a better plan than say, flying to Laredo on a historic day

 

[Austin]

I think I've approached the point of my life, I'm going to swipe a card and spend the next three days on a motorcycle with a fishing pole latched to the tail rack.

It's funny and nice when we reach that point. I take our DDs everywhere for oil, maintenance, etc but will spend all day getting greasy working on my off-road toy.... priorities.

 

[woods]

It's funny and nice when we reach that point. I take our DDs everywhere for oil, maintenance, etc but will spend all day getting greasy working on my off-road toy.... priorities.

The motorcycles. Take a seat on the rolling stool, and I'll slap any bike on the rack and do anything to it. No problem at all. I'll rebuild motors, grease triple trees, mount tires. No problem.

Laying on the gravel, on a slope, rust in my eyes, losing sockets in the dirt, throwing thousands at something only for it not to be the case. I think I'm over it. I ordered a radio for the Grand Vitara. I'll knock that out. Sit in the driver's seat and plug in a few wires. Sure. But this whole chasing problems, I think I'm finished.

 

[woods]

Called the local place that specializes in trucks (mostly large, diesel semi's) and drivelines. They said they do smaller trucks too and be happy to look at it. Not the vibration, but that clunking knocking noise. Hell, that may even be linked to the shimmy. Have them yank the cover and fix anything that may be wrong with it. I'm so done chasing this garbage.

Gets dropped off Monday.