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Re: [GMCnet] Final Drive Intermediate Axle questions [message #322561 is a reply to message #322549] |
Wed, 23 August 2017 15:20 |
Kosier
Messages: 834 Registered: February 2008
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Rick,
Have you considered the country boy trick of putting a flat washer on the
bolt in between the bracket and block?
Gary Kosier
77PB w/500Cad
Newark, Ohio
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From: "Richard Denney"
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 1:45 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Final Drive Intermediate Axle questions
> I did just get an email from Manny--he's apparently been following along.
> He's offered to send a replacement and I'm taking him up on
> that--correcting the issue with this one will be something he's far more
> skilled at doing than I am.
>
> He thinks the most likely probability is that the bracket isn't straight
> and it's pushing the shaft too far into the final drive.
>
> For posterity, he tells me that the 3.21 axle bearing is indeed different,
> with a slightly smaller inside diameter. He sleeves the shaft so that it
> will accommodate the bearing used for the 3.07 shaft, and thus the bracket
> is also used for that shaft. That's why there's no tab for the strut. The
> bearing used for the original 3.21 shaft is obsolete and no longer
> available. If I'm understanding correctly, he also sleeves the seal race
> where it enters the final drive to use a better quality seal.
>
> This is a most unusual problem--it's never happened to him before. I have
> suspicion that this bracket was on a vehicle that had some damage that
> pushed the bracket inboard in way that is hard to see. It wouldn't take
> much.
>
> Rick "good discussion--thanks" Denney
>
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Richard Denney
> wrote:
>
>> ...
>>
>> I'll bet I'm going to find that the bracket isn't really square--the
>> mounting tabs and the part to which the bearing retainer attaches should
>> be
>> plano-parallel, and those tabs should be at a right angle to the axle or
>> the bearing will bind.
>>
>>
>
> --
> '73 X-Glacier 230 "Jaws"
> Northern Virginia
> Offlist email: rick at rickdenney dot com
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