More this afternoon, it pretty much all about the Ranger today... it was a great day.
Dove into the other side since I am held up waiting for paint to dry for the PS.
Wheel bearing grease doesn't look encouraging.
Who says D35's don't have drain plugs.
Oil was nice and clean, I was impressed.
This truck must have been fun to drive, one side of the u-joint is frozen and the knuckle is stuck in this position because the u-joint wouldn't flex. I played with it and eventually got the loose side so the knuckle will move so I could get the stupid wheel speed sensor block out of the way. I am thrilled to be rid of those stupid ABS sensors, they are a PITA.
Ew
That stupid odd sized screw. Beat a socket on and pray, so far I am 2 for 2 and hope to end my run there.
Pulled the diff, looks nice inside:
Nice and clean.
The center joint is the only one worth a crap. All the rollers were still there and still had grease.
The center joint replaced and the yokes cleaned up. I got one side of it primed too.
Work in progress here:
More detail of the nastyness.
Blew a cap apart.
Gonna have to cut the cross I think, the other two caps are still fused to the cross. I was fighting a headache by now and left it for later.
Starting to take the knuckle off, I think I hurt the lower ball joint. Suppose this is one of those rebuildable ones?
And the alignment bushing kinda crumbled on me. I might just get new aftermarket ones and be done with it. The other side looked different, I also notice it had aftermarket balljoints and the DS probably were original. I wonder if they had to change the bushing to get it to align after changing the balljoints.