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It's hitting the nut. I don't know whether or not these are factory bolts, they're just what came with the parts when I bought them.

New issue to resolve, when I was assembling the hubs today we noticed that on both sides the rotor is contacting the lower ball joint bolts. I'm wondering if maybe they are backwards. Unfortunately if they are and I have to flip them around I will be SOL because flipping those bolts causes them...

Just got back from my AT on friday, got a little time to finish up the axle over the weekend. Finally got the remainder of the scale off, I discovered that beating the housing directly with the mallet was very effective at cracking through the scale, then cleaned it up with a masonry chisel...

Ha ha, yeah that truck is a piece of work, we're going to have it for a while. Found out today the driver has been going so long on the wobbly kingpins that the both spindles are trashed. It's got a busted air line, leaking differential, leaking axle seal, all the shoes and drums were trash, the...

Yep, I just started last week as a full time diesel mechanic. Funny story about that, it's actually a place I used to work security at making garbage, one of the terminal managers knew I had been a mechanic in the Army and offered me a job in the shop. It's been great so far and I work with a...

Well the new job certainly has it's perks, mainly being able to bring in my own stuff when I'm off the clock to work on. Brought the axle in today with me and changed out the pinion bearings after I was done for the day. Those bearings were TOASTED! Glad I'm changing them, both axles had pitted...

Yeah I have no idea what I'm going to use them for since I don't work on anything with safety wire but, well I have them now.

Alright well I'll be swapping everything, got my bearing set and whatnot in today. Funny, speaking of wasted military tools. I had to go in to my unit for the day today to make up for a training day I took off. Spent most of the morning running around with a skid loader moving scrap wood...

I think just about everyone on this site has had their project "snowball" it doesn't take much to get started but oh man the more parts you find the more parts you want. My swinger started out as a stock /6 rebuild and body work, and now I have coil spring suspension and a big block. haha...

Oh man that duster came out pretty! Great work I'm really diggin the paint.

Ha, maybe there's just more trickery going on on the army side. Last fiscal year our motor sergeant ordered us to take the 5 yard loader and accidentally destroy an entire pallet of alternators behind the motor pool. That way we could retain the same budget for the next year by ordering more so...

That's not surprising, if there's one thing I've noticed in the military that seems to be universal it's that we like to hang on to things long past their intended service life. Usually by changing some insignificant system and then calling it a new model. Like how we have a craptillion...

Well since I moved most of my tools into the shop I'm a little bit short handed here at home, I'll have to replenish my stock. Can't do much with the axle without my sockets and wrenches so I went at the leaf springs, a long overdue project of getting the old metal outer rings out from the old...

Hey it's keeping me happy and at least I can't feel the irritation so no complaints! I have a cousin that just enlisted 11B in the guard, tried to talk him out of being a bang bang but the recruiters were more convincing I guess. He hasn't left for basic yet, OSUT he's gonna have lot's of fun...

Haha, thanks it still stings a bit but it's a lot better today and less irritated. I'm a 91B wheeled vehicle mechanic in the Reserves, I operate a 20 ton oshkosh 8x8 wrecker. I literally slept all day yesterday, woke up for a bout 4 hours then fell back asleep for the rest of the night.

Axle is welded up nice now, tubes are welded and the perches are on and set. Will be cleaning it up and re-assembling next to get it ready to go under the car. Another chapter in my rear axle saga, while I was grinding the perches off I managed to get a shard of metal up behind my safety...

Ok so, just a little update. I got the axle back from the shop again. I was right they measured off the yoke and not the casting so it ended up with the wrong offset, they fixed it free of charge with another inch of tube and a slug and it's dead on now. Continuing my rear end swap which is...

I'll just bring all the pieces I have with me when I pay them a visit monday morning. Until then there's nothing I can do on the car since the next couple steps hinge on me being able to paint the engine bay, and it's still 40 degrees outside.

That would make sense looking at it, doesn't seem to be missing from anything I still have so it must have come from the old wheel bearings. Thanks. As for the housing I don't know what I can do with it I'm not buying another one because I'm just sick of this. It would be easy if the shop would...

Well well well here we go AGAIN with the never ending rear end crap. Decided to break out the tape measure to check where I was going to put the spring perches. lo and behold the shop cut one side 1" short. So now I have a 17" passenger side tube and a 16"in drivers side tube instead of them...

I doubt mine will look quite as nice as yours jrlegacy. Got my hands on an air needler at went at the housing with, turns out the scale on it was a little more than it could handle so I ended up going back to the chisel and mallet method. Finally found some good metal.

A needler certainly looks like it would do the job, I just need to get a hold of one.

Got the axle back from the shop! They put quite a bit of weld on it, should do the job I think. Still need to weld the axle tubes, cut the sway bar brackets and perches, and get new perches on it. The shop was nice and pulled the old wheel bearings for me, which is good since I don't have a...

Thanks bomber! Dropped the axle off today to get chopped, shop said they should have it done by wednesday. At least I have some spare parts now with two axles.

Both axle housing completely stripped down now, save for the pinion gear. Going to drop one of them at the shop tomorrow to get it narrowed and welded, whichever one they'd rather use. The brake backing plate came off in rare form. :D The new axle doesn't look quite as bad with most of the...

I need to call them today, I might not even bother with RI driveshaft if I like what they give me.

Ha I didn't even think of using a needler, I'm just going to keep chipping away at it until I either find the end or strike oil. :blob:

Got a couple more parts in today, mini starter, flywheel, and the brake hoses for the front. I picked up the paint I need for the engine bay but didn't get to actually start on it, the igniter in the heater we were using broke so I didn't feel like wasting paint in the cold garage...

First round of parts starting to roll in now, got my hydraulic clutch bits in along with the leaf bushings and the trans mount. I also picked up some semi-gloss black paint that I'm going to shoot the interior floors with over the weekend providing I can steal my friends torpedo heater and his...

Keep it up! A lot of people aren't motivated enough and would scrap a car like that. Props for saving another A-body :burnout: