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The -20 finally got me straightened out on what I was looking at in that diagram. The oil slinger was what was confusing me. Once I realized that then it all made sense again. Sadly I do think my passenger side hub/rotor assembly is worn out - when installing on the truck the inner bearing came...

So I have both my front wheel bearing assemblies removed while replacing the bearings and doing a brake job. I started second guessing myself during reassembly and now have gotten thoroughly confused by what I am reading on the interwebz about how it goes back together - to the point that I am...

Thanks Bob, turns out a friend of mine had a civvie W200 sitting in his hayfield for the last decade or so. The axle shaft nut on it came off normally. Not sure why mine was froze up so bad. By the way - I'd like to do a brake job while I have eveything apart but I don't want to replace the...

I had to heat up my passenger side axle shaft nut on my Front Dana 44 until it glowed orange before the %$#$ thing would budge. Now I don't know that I trust the steel after being that hot (it has that gray color to it which makes me think I may have normalized it). Does anyone know of a source...

Quick question - anyone know what size the freeze plugs are on these 318's? I assume they are all the same size - but in particular I need to replace the one by the starter motor.

The 1990 had an automatic but it was 2-wheel drive rather than 4-wheel drive. I'll see if I can check the timing this evening. This will be the first time I've done that - I assume the Haynes/Chiltons manual procedures are pretty straight-forward for that? I have the military manuals also -...

The 318 in my M880 is around 95,000 miles (if the OD is accurate) and has picked up a few bad habits this year. Smoking (blue-gray smoke) on start. Rough idle. Pinging under heavy load. I have my yearly off-roading trip coming up in October and need my tow rig in good working order. I am...

I would go 60/70 - the 70 will handle a larger gearset (up to 7.70) if you want later on. That's what came with the 92' W250 that I will be dropping an M880 body on in the future. (along with 6BT - A518 - and NP205)

Bad ground through the mounting bolts caused similar issues for me when I installed a new wiring harness. So I cheated - and ran a ground wire from cab/frame and bed/frame. Haven't had a problem since.

Went on an annual camping trip two weekends ago and got about 11MPG on the highway portion. Stock M880 on 33's and keeping it around 60-65 MPH. For the record I refer to this in FPG (feet per gallon) rather than MPG - it makes more sense. :lol:

The factory fuse panel is gone - I have completely rewired the truck so it now uses the Painless fuse panel. I was concerned about the sockets and my next step was probably to rebuild them by installing new posts. I had already tried cleaning them up. I tried the test listed in the manual for...

In case anyone is curious - adding the ground cables for the cab-frame and frame-bed took care of the issue. I had already cleaned up and ran new wire for the engine and body grounds off the battery. In fact I had cleaned and rewired every ground on the truck. The problem I surmise was rusty...

I am finishing up new wiring harness install and running into problems at the rear of the truck. So a couple of questions. First, did the M880's have an engine ground strap originally or should they have one? Second, how do the rear tail light/brake lights ground? Is it through the metal tail...

Probably a dumb question - but does a 6BT actually mate with the TF727 we have in the M880's?

I tried that - just standard counter-clockwise right? I guess mine are just froze up, but I wanted to make sure before I started putting that kind of force on it.

Okay, here is my attempt at the dumb question of the day: How do you remove the shifter knob on the NP203 shifter? Is the inside of the knob threaded? Or are you supposed to "push"the knob off by backing off the nut beneath it? Either I am doing it wrong or mine are really froze up - I have...

My 77' M880 is experiencing problems when shifting under heavy load. The symptoms: When gently accelerating up to 55-60mph the tranny will shift normally at all three gears. When rapidly accelerating up to 55-60mph it will shift late and sometimes doesn't want to shift at all. In fact, I have...

Yep. I'll try to get some pics of what I have this weekend and post them for you.

If you are going to swap in a Cummins then personally I would get rid of the 727 in favor of an overdrive tranny.

Anyone interested in troop benches in Central Arkansas? The wood is gone but I believe the rest is pretty close to complete. I can post up some pics if anyone is interested in them.