Been so much fun around here:
Got a bad vibration on the highway, pulled over and saw I was missing a cap. Locked in the hubs, turned it around to slowly limp it home and put it in 4wd to take some strain off the rear... made it a couple hundred feet. Lost the shaft at like 3mph so no big crisis that way.
So I get a new cross, put it in and a roller must have shifted so I go to pop it apart... no dice, go the other way, cap still won't come out. Get channel locks wiggle and pull and eventually get it.
Cap is extra long on MOOG crosses. Left to right is the GMB that spit a cap, OEM Spicer from my parts truck shaft I robbed a flange from and the MOOG. Probably stronger but a PITA to get a new cap out of a bead blasted flange... going to be a riot when some rust gets in the picture.
Go in the garage after fighting that at work... what is that? Its freaking antifreeze! Sure enough the heater core is leaking YET AGAIN.
Pretty much back up three times and punt on all that, get back to the NP208.
New seal installed, we have progress for the day!
No rear driveshaft, heater core is leaking coolant down the firewall although the truck hasn't ran in three weeks but I have a nifty boot on the distributor now.
Edit: Ordered a new output bearing for the NP208. Parts stores didn't have any close that didn't require freight so I ordered a Timkin from Rockauto yesterday, due this Thursday which was great so I could get this thing moving and off my bench while it was warm. Received an email this morning their inventory was off and they were out of stock. So I order an SKF... should be here by next Tuesday. :annoyed