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I edit most of my post's five or six times because I don't proof read what I type. Yep air ride is the only way to go. I picked up 17 Bostrom 931 air ride in Ohio/Gl. Got back to Fl. and sold them all to one collector for 400 a piece no questions asked.
That was a good trip /investment and got...
Do believe if you have a grease fitting on cap or use the stock grease fitting you don't need a pressure relief installed. What one might do is start greasing with the trunnions first till resistance is felt in the hand grease gun and stop. Go do the rest of the grease fittings around the truck...
G said it had rubber seal and felt retainer post #61. You can see seal and retainer for felt A new rubber seal I believe will give enough to let air out and some grease. Old might not give as much and using a high power greaser pushes the grease to fast for the air/grease to escape. Then the...
The ball valve is the fast and easy way to get ready for fording. Myself I would leave it out as if the truck ever changes hands they might not know about it being installed and trouble will follow.
Does anyone remember the name of the big grocery store that was just on the other side of town and not to far from the airport. Ingles or something like that. They had some cheese made by snowdonia that I fell in love with. I can not get it here in Fl. and getting ready to go Ga. to drop off...
If you think it might be a problem I can take it out and have the local drive line shop spin it?
O boy get to use my virgin Tiger tool that has never been used and in the tool box for 10 years.
PS just spoke wit the drive line shop. He said put it in phase and drive it and if it is not correct...
https://www.drivelinesnw.com/part-trouble-shooting/vibration-analysis/phasing/
Willing to bet the person that was working on it before new not of what he did plus the shop foreman was sleeping caused the problem. Drive line balance should be fine finger crossed. Still needs to be corrected.
Got the last of OD stuff out of my house and into the trailer plus the house seems so much bigger. Also finished up the oil floating hub swap with newer wheels and tires.
You are the man and yes my front drive line is out of phase. I bought the tiger tool a long time ago so getting the joint apart will be easy. Thanks for the wake up call.
Seems like it will take at least two tubes of grease to change out that way plus makes a mess at the seal end. Correct way maybe six pumps to clear cap end six pumps to clear seal end. Lets pretend we went fording and the cap took on water. Now we have to push this water from one end to the...
Now look what happens if we put a zert in the cap. We push old grease into what should be a clean grease cavity. The pressure valve might let the old come out but sooner than later the old grease will end up at the rear bearing and seal. Then everytime we grease we just push old out the rear...
I checked the two Deuces and all my 5 toners they have the grease fiting installed. The five tonners are the same way as the Deuce's no plug in cap. Seems like it would have been easy to install a plug instead of having to loosen the cap to get the grease to flow to the front.
After learning...
Problem power grease gun putting out enough pressure to destroy seal with cavity closed off. Seems like once you get to where the trunnion set up is full of grease it will not need that much more grease to do a service. As I said before when I did get to service it when I first got the truck...
It is a weird the way the engineer designed it but I don't think we have to reinvent the wheel just figure out how to get it rolling.
Remove the cap and do inspection and reseal. Remove the plug in the cap if you have one. If not install one and open it. Start to pump grease in bottom grease...