xXxPARAGONxXx’s 1999 Chevrolet K2500 Crew Cab

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This is true, except we have to “go to town” for anything bigger than a dollar store.

The Napa auto parts is also a feed store, hardware, lumber and equipment rental if that tells you anything about the area

Yup sounds like Lexington where my cousin lives. If you want some things, you can get them there, but otherwise you go to Giddings which is 20 miles away. Where my aunt and uncle used to live, in Cedar Creek, was even more that way, till the dollar store and a large convenience store came in a few years ago. You had to go to Bastrop, Lockhart or Austin ( and if it was Austin, you did everything you needed to there and made a day of it).

 

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Got the attachment in today. Will be working on removing the inner and outer pinion bearing cups in about thirty-minutes after I eat some dinner.

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The screw on the J-36598 will pull the outer pinion bearing cup out of the bore by pulling the J-36598-5 out. This is how the J-36598-5 it is situated in the bore before I insert the screw.

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There are ridges on the J-36598-5 that will grasp the cup as it is pulled out.

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As the cup is pulled out...

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That is a really cool tool/jig/setup/thingy.

I want one…

 

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Outer pinion bearing cup out.

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That is a really cool tool/jig/setup/thingy.

I want one…

Yeah, those engineers at Kent-Moore, Miller, Bosch...they're something special (in a good way).

 

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Are the fingers spring loaded? I guess they’re for alignment

 

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So, rather than pulling the inner pinion bearing cup out, the J-36598-5 is also made so it can PUSH the inner pinion bearing cup out, through the opposite end of the pinion gear bore.

 

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Are the fingers spring loaded? I guess they’re for alignment

Yes, they are. Actually not only for alignment, but to allow the tool to be used for the dual purpose of removing both cups, since the bore diameter is different at each cup point. The spring-loaded fingers allow the tool to squeeze into the much narrower area around the outer pinion cup.

On the other hand, at the inner pinion cup, the spring-loaded fingers spring out into two 180-degree apart grooves machined into the axle housing, where they can grip the inner pinion bearing cup.

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