apextrans
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OK, so I'm having problem after problem with the truck lately & it all started with a blown out locking hub up front. I buy a set of manual locking hubs & install them, good to go. Few days later truck starts making a grumbling sound every time I hit a bump. Kick it into 4x4 & it goes away. I figure front hub bearing are shot. Another guy drives the truck & says the same thing. So, I price out front hubs knowing the truck has 150K on it. Before I get to buy the hubs, the tranny starts acting up. Starts off in 2nd for a whole day out of the blue. Threw a code & turns out 2nd gear is trashed. I dropped it into first while moving & unwelded whatever had become welded together in the 2nd gear & now it is shifting fine again. Tranny shop suggested a rebuild because it's as much work to rebuild as fix that problem. So now I guess I need a rebuild before it takes a dump completely. Anyway, back to the hub story. So, I get the new hubs & they have the wrong studs in them. Nobody told me there was coarse & fine thread offerings, & of course nobody stocks the fine thread so I knock out the old studs & put them in the new hubs. Heres where Keep It Simple Stupid comes into play. I had to babysit the neighbors kid along with one of my own today while I was planning to do the hubs. Kids were playing in the back yard so I decided to do the drivers side first so I could keep an eye on the kiddies while I'm working. All goes well with that side & then the wife & other child arrive home so I move to the passenger side now that there's another set of eyes to watch said kids. First thing I do is pull out the NEW manual hub & wha-la, it's trashed after 2 weeks (and has never been locked in except to test after installing) & is the source of my new noise. Bearing is gone & hub is full of shavings. I already had the other side installed so I when ahead & installed the new hub assembly on the pass side too. The ***** of this is I usually work on the pass side first because it's in the shade. Because of the kids, I did the drivers side first. Had I followed my usual routine I would have found the bad locking hub in the first 5 minutes & not installed the hubs & returned them for my 458 dollars back. I never even thought to check the locking hubs being that they were new. K.I.S.S.
I chalked it up to Preventitive Measures & an expensive lesson learned......again. I think one hub might have been bad though, it was a bit rough when turning by hand. Oh, I also found a leaking front axle seal so I guess it will have to come out again to fix that!!!!
This truck is killing me....
I chalked it up to Preventitive Measures & an expensive lesson learned......again. I think one hub might have been bad though, it was a bit rough when turning by hand. Oh, I also found a leaking front axle seal so I guess it will have to come out again to fix that!!!!
This truck is killing me....