Hi,
I posted a while back on changing my bellows out. Finally got a chance to start working on it after i started a new job. Heres whats up.
Drained the oil, disconnect all the linkages, removed the bolts. Transmission came of easily. No icky stuff in the drive and the oil was clean. Bellows on the other hand was a mix of sludge, salt crystals, and rust everywhere.
The u joints felt fine no slop or play in them, the shaft coming out of the engine didn't budge at all up or down and the seal isn't damaged. There is no slop in in the transmission end and the big bearing on the bottom was clean as a whistle. I think i may have lucked out. My neighbor likes to tinker with those things so he is going to replace the u-joints and clean it up. Who ever previously changed it used bellows adheasive when i was told you werent.
Now for spline grease i have a whole bunch of Chevron extreme pressure extreme temp NLGI 2 i think grease. We use it on the semi 5th wheels. Will that work for greasing the splines and hitting the zirk fiting on top of the bell housing to grease the bearing.
Oh yeah it took all of 20min to take the transmission off one i found my allen wrench to get to the bolts inside the cover...
I posted a while back on changing my bellows out. Finally got a chance to start working on it after i started a new job. Heres whats up.
Drained the oil, disconnect all the linkages, removed the bolts. Transmission came of easily. No icky stuff in the drive and the oil was clean. Bellows on the other hand was a mix of sludge, salt crystals, and rust everywhere.
The u joints felt fine no slop or play in them, the shaft coming out of the engine didn't budge at all up or down and the seal isn't damaged. There is no slop in in the transmission end and the big bearing on the bottom was clean as a whistle. I think i may have lucked out. My neighbor likes to tinker with those things so he is going to replace the u-joints and clean it up. Who ever previously changed it used bellows adheasive when i was told you werent.
Now for spline grease i have a whole bunch of Chevron extreme pressure extreme temp NLGI 2 i think grease. We use it on the semi 5th wheels. Will that work for greasing the splines and hitting the zirk fiting on top of the bell housing to grease the bearing.
Oh yeah it took all of 20min to take the transmission off one i found my allen wrench to get to the bolts inside the cover...