I put Roscoe up on jackstands today so I can take the wheels to Tom's Tire and get some maypops put on it. I don't want to invest in good tires until it runs, but I also want tires that will hold air for more than five minutes. It was a real struggle to get the lugnuts off and then get the front wheels broke free of the rotors. I had to break out the slide hammer on one.
Hmm... I wonder if that carrier bearing is any good? Fortunately I snatched one up when RockAuto put them on closeout. It took me about twenty minutes to pound the old bearing off with my mini-sledge, and I only hit my thumb about four times. I won't actually install the new bearing until I get the transmission mounted up and see if the front half of the driveshaft needs shortened for the 4L80E.
Something funny's going on with the transmission yoke. It's a small-spline unit, but supposedly this truck had a 454. I have a spare TH400 yoke, and it slides nicely into the 4L80, but it's definitely larger than the truck's yoke. The only thing I don't like is that the ears on it are narrower.
Any which way, the existing yoke is too pitted to use, even on a 700R4.
My coworker who gave me the truck made a big joke out of the dual exhaust with glasspacks on it and how I was getting a real steal of a deal because the exhaust was "worth so much". I chopped the exhaust apart and loaded it into WCJr with a bunch of scrap metal. One of the glasspacks had rusted through and was dumping rust flakes everywhere. The other glasspack was packed full of acorns and nesting material. It was only a 2" exhaust anyways. The 2.5" exhaust on WCJr will probably get swapped over and finished out to the rear bumper with an additional muffler at the back to tone it down further.
Hmm... I wonder if that carrier bearing is any good? Fortunately I snatched one up when RockAuto put them on closeout. It took me about twenty minutes to pound the old bearing off with my mini-sledge, and I only hit my thumb about four times. I won't actually install the new bearing until I get the transmission mounted up and see if the front half of the driveshaft needs shortened for the 4L80E.
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Something funny's going on with the transmission yoke. It's a small-spline unit, but supposedly this truck had a 454. I have a spare TH400 yoke, and it slides nicely into the 4L80, but it's definitely larger than the truck's yoke. The only thing I don't like is that the ears on it are narrower.
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Any which way, the existing yoke is too pitted to use, even on a 700R4.
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My coworker who gave me the truck made a big joke out of the dual exhaust with glasspacks on it and how I was getting a real steal of a deal because the exhaust was "worth so much". I chopped the exhaust apart and loaded it into WCJr with a bunch of scrap metal. One of the glasspacks had rusted through and was dumping rust flakes everywhere. The other glasspack was packed full of acorns and nesting material. It was only a 2" exhaust anyways. The 2.5" exhaust on WCJr will probably get swapped over and finished out to the rear bumper with an additional muffler at the back to tone it down further.