| [GMCnet] That $@@(&&)! Final Drive bracket! [message #321729] |
Sun, 06 August 2017 20:59  |
Richard Denney
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Registered: April 2010
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So, what is the magic trick for removing the final drive?
I have all the bolts out (except one at top I left in loosely for safety)
and removed the steering stabilizer and its bracket (Ken will remember how
that interfered with us during transmission installation). I removed the
long bolt on the top bracket, and the bolts holding in the stub axle.
But the hood on that upper bracket wraps over the top of the FD case,
preventing it from sliding forward to separate from the transmission. I
know that those in the know cut that hood off, and Manny sent me a new
bracket that doesn't have it. The aft bolt holding that bracket to the
engine block is defeating me, but do you remove that (somehow) and that
blasted power steering lower bracket and leave the bracket on the FD case?
People change final drives routinely without messing with the transmission,
so I know there's a trick I'm missing. Do you pull the stub axle and rotate
the case around to clear that top bracket?
Rick "whose front end parts are all removed and ready for new stuff, but
wants the new final drive in first" Denney
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Rick Denney
73 x-Glacier 230 "Jaws"
Off-list email to rick at rickdenney dot com
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