I pressed a diff side joint through a sleave. Avoid my mistake and grind the lip down on the outer flange and insert the joint like Blaine did. Much cleaner that way.,
It looks like a stock bushing will go back in for the time being. In order to do this correctly, the entire axle will need to be removed. There's no way I'm going to try and do the welding needed here with the axle in the Jeep. I have all the parts for a 5.13 regear, including a HP30 housing, so I'll likely do it then!In your first pic, I believe you have to grind down that lip flat with the bracket on n both sides
It looks like a stock bushing will go back in for the time being. In order to do this correctly, the entire axle will need to be removed. There's no way I'm going to try and do the welding needed here with the axle in the Jeep. I have all the parts for a 5.13 regear, including a HP30 housing, so I'll likely do it then!
Sometimes the obvious is right in front of you. This is definitely a job to do with the whole assembly removed!
Sometimes the obvious is right in front of you. This is definitely a job to do with the whole assembly removed!
IIIRC Blaine also uses a piece of exhaust tubing in the passenger side to give the bushings more “press”
Not having to deal with any of this is exactly why I used an early HP30 CAD axle instead of looking around for a non CAD. The passenger uca joint is cast into the cad housing so installing the JJ is identical to doing the driver side.
Seems like the CAD axle comes with it's own set of challenges though, right?