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    Good Zf5 rebuilder

    Thank you for that recommendation. Did you get a full rebuild or just a certain thing fixed there?
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    Wheel bearings.

    +1 on that. I just finished rebuilding that part of the axle on mine. At least three needle bearings were out of the cage and ground flat. Didn't fix the problem I'm having much to my surprise but that's a different thread
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    Good Zf5 rebuilder

    Modoc is an awesome county.
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    Just how important is GVWR in these old trucks..?

    I know they are tough but damn! Must be pretty flat around there. Low range would be the only way that would happen here
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    Just how important is GVWR in these old trucks..?

    Picking springs that are right for camper on and off will be tough. If you are on the overloads it will ride like crap off road. I can't ever keep air bags from failing in off road rigs. I haven't tried long travel ones tho just a variety of ways to leave them loose on the spring but stay in...
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    Good Zf5 rebuilder

    Does that help? My set up is the south bend clutch set up so idk if it's relevant to your situation
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    Good Zf5 rebuilder

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    Just how important is GVWR in these old trucks..?

    Lighter is always better. Gear vendor is nice with 4.88s. Hope you do a build thread
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    Good Zf5 rebuilder

    throw out bearing or the pocket bearing? Why would the throw out bearing have anything to do with it. I put it back together after I opened it up just to make sure I could since lots of people say you can't work on a zf5 without the special jig. I'm with the people that say it is a little...
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    Good Zf5 rebuilder

    Well there is more to the story. In all fairness I didn't ask lkq to do anything. I bought the truck with the fresh rebuild in it already. Also I'm living about 3 1/2 hours away from Redding. And the tranny is behind a 12v cummins. So it didn't seem worth it to pursue since I knew I would...
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    Good Zf5 rebuilder

    Thanks russ, I'll hit you up if I head that way for sure
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    Good Zf5 rebuilder

    Good point. Seems unlikely it would have done that if there was plenty of oil getting to it. The way it failed I was expecting it to look like a grenade went off in there. When I opened it up everything looked pristine. Then I realized that the input and output were solidly fused. Only time...
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    Good Zf5 rebuilder

    Pocket bearing melted welding the input to the output. I've been meaning to tackle it myself but haven't gotten to it. Had to be preload set to tight
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    Exhaust questions

    Weather or not you have a turbo makes no difference. It's the factory turbo motor has differences that effect balancing. Different flywheel different harmonic balancer. if you want more opinions on flywheels you probably need a different thread so the topic isn't buried. I had both the wrong...
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    Good Zf5 rebuilder

    Thanks. That's a bit of a drive but having somebody that really knows this tranny do it is worth a lot. I replaced my smoked fresh reman with a quarter million mile factory original about a year ago and it's still busting ass. Of course the reman catastrophicly failed going down a 10% grade...
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