I've been told that my carrier bearings are shot in my rear axle (rear axle is kin to a Dana 60). A shop wanted to charge me $600 to replace them :eeek: . After getting my thoughts under control, I informed them, no.
Having pulled the 3rd member before, I don't think its $600 worth of work. The pinion bearing (and everything in regards to the pinion) is fine so I'm thinking of just replacing the carrier bearings. I found the carrier bearings for a reasonable price and I'm thinking of doing it myself.
Any pitfalls to doing it myself? My idea is pull the 3rd member and taking it to a shop and having them pull the old bearings and press on the new ones. Then re-installing the 3rd member and then check the tolerance with a dial gauge. If needed, get shims in there (currently it doesn't have any shims in there so I kinda have a feeling it won't need any). BTW where can I procure shims? I figure NAPA would have them.
But yeah, but wanted to ask here. I don't think its anything ground breaking but wanted to ask anyway. The rest of the rear axle is in good shape (except for looking like crap, but whatever). I figure if I can get out for under $100 doing it myself, that would be fine (found timken bearing and races for $30). One last thing, this isn't my DD so if it has to sit in the garage for a few days with no diff cover on it, then that is fine.
Thanks for any help on this.
Having pulled the 3rd member before, I don't think its $600 worth of work. The pinion bearing (and everything in regards to the pinion) is fine so I'm thinking of just replacing the carrier bearings. I found the carrier bearings for a reasonable price and I'm thinking of doing it myself.
Any pitfalls to doing it myself? My idea is pull the 3rd member and taking it to a shop and having them pull the old bearings and press on the new ones. Then re-installing the 3rd member and then check the tolerance with a dial gauge. If needed, get shims in there (currently it doesn't have any shims in there so I kinda have a feeling it won't need any). BTW where can I procure shims? I figure NAPA would have them.
But yeah, but wanted to ask here. I don't think its anything ground breaking but wanted to ask anyway. The rest of the rear axle is in good shape (except for looking like crap, but whatever). I figure if I can get out for under $100 doing it myself, that would be fine (found timken bearing and races for $30). One last thing, this isn't my DD so if it has to sit in the garage for a few days with no diff cover on it, then that is fine.
Thanks for any help on this.