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Time to check transfercase and front diffy, you likely have a bad bearing somewhere.
Dan Whitaker
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A life time of to & from O' Reilly's 
I went to them Monday to get plugs for the wife's 'Zuki. They didn't have the NGK V-Power that is the factory plug. They could order them. No I don't want to order plugs. I want to do this today.
They sell me another NGK which is supposed to work. I get home take on of the old plugs out. All is fine except that the ones they gave me have a 13/16 head not a 5/8. A 13/16 plug socket won't fit in the hole of the valve cover.
I grab the Haynes manual I have and it says the plug they gave me was for 1990 and older. Someone loaded the wrong info in their system.
I ended up putting Autolite's in.
I went to them Monday to get plugs for the wife's 'Zuki. They didn't have the NGK V-Power that is the factory plug. They could order them. No I don't want to order plugs. I want to do this today.
They sell me another NGK which is supposed to work. I get home take on of the old plugs out. All is fine except that the ones they gave me have a 13/16 head not a 5/8. A 13/16 plug socket won't fit in the hole of the valve cover.
I grab the Haynes manual I have and it says the plug they gave me was for 1990 and older. Someone loaded the wrong info in their system.
I ended up putting Autolite's in.
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Nope-
transfer case was swapped, and the front diffy is fine. Also-the trans mount, motor mounts are fine.
The cv grenaded.
the one 3 weeks ago had a very torn up boot, and gravel in the cv joint. You could tell they used the old boot for the rebuild.
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dang after the fiasco with the BII stock driveshaft (rear was CV style at t case and rear end, they blew up all the time) I cannot believe went to the CV front yoke in 98, what a dumb idea.. my 96 AWD t case and D shaft worked flawless, if it goes bad, $10 u joint
time for a 4406
time for a 4406
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dang after the fiasco with the BII stock driveshaft (rear was CV style at t case and rear end, they blew up all the time) I cannot believe went to the CV front yoke in 98, what a dumb idea.. my 96 AWD t case and D shaft worked flawless, if it goes bad, $10 u joint
time for a 4406
I think he is-in fact I may swap back-
In the meantime-
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fancy schmancy!
You could sell those on here for sure! Powedercoat them "smith red"!! Nice idea
You could sell those on here for sure! Powedercoat them "smith red"!! Nice idea
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Well, I think it was Gavin who recommended greasing the cv joint before install. I cannot find the thread now-however I will admit Bryan was just bolting them in out of the box.
I checked the new u joint end-and it felt a bit dry, sure enough 4 pumps on the grease gun and a bit came out the seals-
So we inserted a needle into the small hole on the cv joint end. 24 squeezes before grease came out the hole---
Maybe this will help this one survive--huh?
I checked the new u joint end-and it felt a bit dry, sure enough 4 pumps on the grease gun and a bit came out the seals-
So we inserted a needle into the small hole on the cv joint end. 24 squeezes before grease came out the hole---
Maybe this will help this one survive--huh?
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