Okay... back to this truck story.
Last Saturday, when doing the front-end, interior work, etc. I knew the driveshaft needed new u-joints and fix the leaking transfer case output housing seal.
Let's take everyone down a spiral of events, that lead to me washing my hands, putting my tools away and going home.
Pulled driveshaft to do new moog u-joints, rear went in just fine, removed the front yoke, u-joint and began reassembly. Noticed regardless of what I did, the second inner retaining clip on the joint wouldn't install. Out comes the calipers! Only to find some mongoloid hammered the oem u-joints out so hard, that they managed to bend the ears on the driveshaft, almost 3/16" inward. Well, crap. Rather than stress the ears back open, I decided to order a brand new Dorman driveshaft, which arrived today. It's actually well built and significantly larger diameter than the OEM shaft.
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After finding the trogdor smashed driveshaft last Saturday, I figured i'd move onto removing the output shaft seal. Only to find the leak was from an actual crack on the lip edge of the tailshaft housing. CRAP!
I did find GM still sells the output housing, new. So I ordered one.
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So, i'll install these parts after work, today. Check / fill the transfer case and finally have a mobile truck, again.
I ordered some 285/75/16's to step down from the 315/75/16's, they should be in tomorrow morning. I'll get them swapped out, take the truck on a test drive, then hopefully let the daughter loose in the drivers seat.