New Rear Axle and Poly Bushings Install
09-29-2014, 08:16 AM
#12
5th Gear Member
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Redding, CA
Posts: 4,552
stupid question, but what can this rear handle? I'm looking to max out at 650rwhp in the future, 700 tops (with a new lower end) but right now sitting at 450rwhp give or take... I dont want 4.10s because of the highway driving I do (70 miles one way to work nearly all highway), and thought this was a really good deal.... any more info?
09-29-2014, 01:04 PM
#13
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Virginia
Posts: 33
Ok guys,
I got her done! No real issues. I would recomend this to anyone with a bit of skill and some patience. I used only hand tools and when putting it back in I did need some help. Two other people to be exact and one other jack. I did not have time to put these pics on a site that will make it easy to link them to this thread so I shared them to this link..
https://plus.google.com/photos/11650...48599766103841
Feel free to look. Now I did NOT put in the poly bushings. One, the stock ones are in great shape, that said the work to burn them out would have been just too much for my time budget. The entire operation from start to finish was about 12 hours. Now this was my first time doing this so I really took my time.
As for the bushings the car feels great and there is no issue so far. I have only driven it about 20 miles and I am taking it easy to get the pattern set.
For anyone doing I would highly recomend to put the gear oil in BEFORE you put the rear end back in. The fill plug is in the front and unless you have a pump you will not be able to get the bottles up there.
other then that it was a great experiance and worth the work. She is so quite not I think there is something wrong. I will add to this after she gets broken in. Sorry for the lack of a good write up with each picture having an explinataion but I am not used to this site yet but I will get there.
Thanks for the input to all
G
I got her done! No real issues. I would recomend this to anyone with a bit of skill and some patience. I used only hand tools and when putting it back in I did need some help. Two other people to be exact and one other jack. I did not have time to put these pics on a site that will make it easy to link them to this thread so I shared them to this link..
https://plus.google.com/photos/11650...48599766103841
Feel free to look. Now I did NOT put in the poly bushings. One, the stock ones are in great shape, that said the work to burn them out would have been just too much for my time budget. The entire operation from start to finish was about 12 hours. Now this was my first time doing this so I really took my time.
As for the bushings the car feels great and there is no issue so far. I have only driven it about 20 miles and I am taking it easy to get the pattern set.
For anyone doing I would highly recomend to put the gear oil in BEFORE you put the rear end back in. The fill plug is in the front and unless you have a pump you will not be able to get the bottles up there.
other then that it was a great experiance and worth the work. She is so quite not I think there is something wrong. I will add to this after she gets broken in. Sorry for the lack of a good write up with each picture having an explinataion but I am not used to this site yet but I will get there.
Thanks for the input to all
G
Last edited by GS81VETT; 09-29-2014 at 01:17 PM.
09-29-2014, 03:29 PM
#14
3rd Gear Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 738
Ok guys,
I got her done! No real issues. I would recomend this to anyone with a bit of skill and some patience. I used only hand tools and when putting it back in I did need some help. Two other people to be exact and one other jack. I did not have time to put these pics on a site that will make it easy to link them to this thread so I shared them to this link..
https://plus.google.com/photos/11650...48599766103841
Feel free to look. Now I did NOT put in the poly bushings. One, the stock ones are in great shape, that said the work to burn them out would have been just too much for my time budget. The entire operation from start to finish was about 12 hours. Now this was my first time doing this so I really took my time.
As for the bushings the car feels great and there is no issue so far. I have only driven it about 20 miles and I am taking it easy to get the pattern set.
For anyone doing I would highly recomend to put the gear oil in BEFORE you put the rear end back in. The fill plug is in the front and unless you have a pump you will not be able to get the bottles up there.
other then that it was a great experiance and worth the work. She is so quite not I think there is something wrong. I will add to this after she gets broken in. Sorry for the lack of a good write up with each picture having an explinataion but I am not used to this site yet but I will get there.
Thanks for the input to all
G
I got her done! No real issues. I would recomend this to anyone with a bit of skill and some patience. I used only hand tools and when putting it back in I did need some help. Two other people to be exact and one other jack. I did not have time to put these pics on a site that will make it easy to link them to this thread so I shared them to this link..
https://plus.google.com/photos/11650...48599766103841
Feel free to look. Now I did NOT put in the poly bushings. One, the stock ones are in great shape, that said the work to burn them out would have been just too much for my time budget. The entire operation from start to finish was about 12 hours. Now this was my first time doing this so I really took my time.
As for the bushings the car feels great and there is no issue so far. I have only driven it about 20 miles and I am taking it easy to get the pattern set.
For anyone doing I would highly recomend to put the gear oil in BEFORE you put the rear end back in. The fill plug is in the front and unless you have a pump you will not be able to get the bottles up there.
other then that it was a great experiance and worth the work. She is so quite not I think there is something wrong. I will add to this after she gets broken in. Sorry for the lack of a good write up with each picture having an explinataion but I am not used to this site yet but I will get there.
Thanks for the input to all
G
Get a piece of tubing, push it on the tip of the bottle (that's why they are tapered and have ribs on them). Stick the end of the tubing in the fill hole, invert the bottle and squeeze.
09-29-2014, 04:03 PM
#16
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Virginia
Posts: 33
Yes if you dont have a choice there are ways. I was just saying if you have the housing out it is easier to fill er up before you put it back in. Not a lot of room under there.
10-02-2014, 08:18 AM
#19
6th Gear Member
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: state of confusion
Posts: 7,635
I don't remember if I used a short tube on the little bottle for adding the axle lube like know I do for the transmission.
Norm
10-02-2014, 09:22 AM
#20
3rd Gear Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 738
I didn't even find the attach-a-tube-to-the-quart-bottle method to work anywhere near as good as using the little 4-ounce friction modifier bottle to squirt the lube into the pumpkin. It's not quite as tedious as it sounds to do it this way, and way less frustrating than having quart bottles that you can't empty no matter how high up you try to get it or how hard you squeeze it..
I don't remember if I used a short tube on the little bottle for adding the axle lube like know I do for the transmission.
Norm
I don't remember if I used a short tube on the little bottle for adding the axle lube like know I do for the transmission.
Norm