Rear Axle

We began the process of tak­ing apart the rear end of the car today. Drums are off, brakes torn down and the axles are out so that we can replace the bear­ings and gas­kets before we put it all back together again. We also pulled apart the dif­fer­en­tial and are in the process of eval­u­at­ing it to deter­mine whether we need to do any­thing else, my guess is at the very min­i­mum, with it now apart we are going to replace the pin­ion bear­ing and seal. Only the axle tube itself is left in the car, but at the next oppor­tu­nity we will remove it along with the springs, ball joint and other sus­pen­sion parts so that we can get them cleaned and painted before we put them back.

On a side note, when we pulled the dif­fer­en­tial cover, the whole gear set came with it and that piece must weigh about 100 pounds. I think you could use this stuff in a dump truck with­out any trou­ble.….….. No won­der this beast weighs in at about 5,000 pounds.

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