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Well....crap.
And the hits just keep on coming!
So I pulled the hub cap off the hub and started to clean up the spring and retainer. Wow, she's REALLY DIRTY! As I dig deeper into the morass of grease, rust and grit it becomes glaringly apparent that these hubs haven't seen a service since the vehicle was acquired and, they are beyond service and repair.
The innards are so damn rusted that there are sections of the metal spring retainer that are exceptionally thin and the spring is toast. Dangit! Guess I'll be ordering some new locking hubs. I'm trying to search around now to see if I can find any locking hubs locally but I am resigning myself to the fact that I will probably have to order them online and wait.
Guess, I'll finish getting the other hub assembly put back together and on the truck then cover both sides with garbage bags to keep them out of the elements. I guess this means I will be starting early on fixing my son's Jeep Grand Cherokee. I am doing a transfer case swap and so need to drop the case from my son's Jeep. I already have a new case but I need to check input shaft length to see if I need to swap the shafts.
And the hits just keep on coming!
So I pulled the hub cap off the hub and started to clean up the spring and retainer. Wow, she's REALLY DIRTY! As I dig deeper into the morass of grease, rust and grit it becomes glaringly apparent that these hubs haven't seen a service since the vehicle was acquired and, they are beyond service and repair.
The innards are so damn rusted that there are sections of the metal spring retainer that are exceptionally thin and the spring is toast. Dangit! Guess I'll be ordering some new locking hubs. I'm trying to search around now to see if I can find any locking hubs locally but I am resigning myself to the fact that I will probably have to order them online and wait.
Guess, I'll finish getting the other hub assembly put back together and on the truck then cover both sides with garbage bags to keep them out of the elements. I guess this means I will be starting early on fixing my son's Jeep Grand Cherokee. I am doing a transfer case swap and so need to drop the case from my son's Jeep. I already have a new case but I need to check input shaft length to see if I need to swap the shafts.