Dark Seas M1008 Project

[DarkSeas]

Photos of the case broken down and what I found on the magnet.





Photos after cleaning the case a couple days before (before teardown):

Before:



After:




And yes my fiancé convinced me we needed a new puppy. That's Willow. She likes to help. 4 month old dutch shepherd.

 

[Mullaney]

Photos of the case broken down and what I found on the magnet.

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Photos after cleaning the case a couple days before (before teardown):

Before:
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After:

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And yes my fiancé convinced me we needed a new puppy. That's Willow. She likes to help. 4 month old dutch shepherd.

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Wow. What a difference it made - cleaning up the TC.
Looks like Willow was worn out. From all that helping

The parts look pretty good. I would look closely at the chain - making sure it wasn't stretched with the washer flying around inside.

 

[DarkSeas]

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Wow. What a difference it made - cleaning up the TC.
Looks like Willow was worn out. From all that helping

Yeah man I'm really happy I took the time to get it right, I'm super proud to share how the case turned out after like 4 hours of scrubbing with brillo pads and some dawn.

Willow is definitely my little helper out on the tailgate. Just gotta remind her sometimes that brake clean will never taste good, no matter how exciting the can hiss sounds are. At least she can't speak english so she can't learn to repeat what I say at the truck back to her mom!

 

[Mullaney]

Yeah man I'm really happy I took the time to get it right, I'm super proud to share how the case turned out after like 4 hours of scrubbing with brillo pads and some dawn.

Willow is definitely my little helper out on the tailgate. Just gotta remind her sometimes that brake clean will never taste good, no matter how exciting the can hiss sounds are. At least she can't speak english so she can't learn to repeat what I say at the truck back to her mom!

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Yep. For Sure!

 

[DarkSeas]

Borrowing a seal driver set today/tomorrow to drive some seals into the transfercase and put it back together. Bearings are in. Replaced all 120 needle bearings on the driven shaft, wasn't too bad.

Plan is to get the truck back together and drive her outta there within a month. Some stuff came up and she's gotta move.

Only issue I see is I've got a rotten inner-passenger fender and two sketchy battery setups. I can get an inner fender for around $45 off LMC, JEGS, Holley, Summit, etc. A ratchet strap might do in a pinch, but sourcing a battery tray that could fit on a fender replacement is proving difficult. Anybody else deal with this?



Above: TM 20P for battery trays.
Below: All I can find are LH and RH versions of this, or used battery trays on ebay for like $130-250 a pop.

 

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Borrowing a seal driver set today/tomorrow to drive some seals into the transfercase and put it back together. Bearings are in. Replaced all 120 needle bearings on the driven shaft, wasn't too bad.

Plan is to get the truck back together and drive her outta there within a month. Some stuff came up and she's gotta move.

Only issue I see is I've got a rotten inner-passenger fender and two sketchy battery setups. I can get an inner fender for around $45 off LMC, JEGS, Holley, Summit, etc. A ratchet strap might do in a pinch, but sourcing a battery tray that could fit on a fender replacement is proving difficult. Anybody else deal with this?

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Above: TM 20P for battery trays.
Below: All I can find are LH and RH versions of this, or used battery trays on ebay for like $130-250 a pop.

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Are you missing the original battery trays? Hillbilly Wizard sells replacement ones if so and they come with the hold-downs as well.

Replacement fender liners are still the same shape as original so the battery trays will fit fine. All you'll have to do is drill a couple new holes in the fender liner (as they aren't pre-drilled) for the bottom bolts that mount to them. I went with LMC as shipping seemed reasonable.

 

[DarkSeas]

Are you missing the original battery trays? Hillbilly Wizard sells replacement ones if so and they come with the hold-downs as well.

Replacement fender liners are still the same shape as original so the battery trays will fit fine. All you'll have to do is drill a couple new holes in the fender liner (as they aren't pre-drilled) for the bottom bolts that mount to them. I went with LMC as shipping seemed reasonable.

I've got the original rear but it's in rough shape. I saw HBW had a front tray but I was gonna try and find a cheaper temporary alternative before I go spending $150+ on a used OEM replacement. At the moment the front tray would be useless until I replace that inner fender, the current one would give the front tray nothing to stand on haha