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[Mudrat]

HOLY $HIT

WTF is up with THIS???

Sub Total $19.00
* Shipping --- free
Handling $10.95
*** Total $29.95

To pull a 5/8" sized socket out a of bin and drop it in a frigg'n box???

Needless to say I canx'ed the order - that's out f'kng ragous!!

I'll buy a cheap socket and cut to suit for $2!!!

edit: sorry my bad, it's a 3/4 socket and I have an old one that's "going under the knife" (ok, band saw and die grinder)
Can't wait for a certain MACHINIST to get back off deployment =D>

[fuzz401]

is the sleeve socket the same thing for a MD 30 rear?

[tufcj]

It's the same as a Dana 30 front. As a matter of fact, the Dana 30 and 44 use the same ball joints. I bought mine years ago for my CJ.

Bob
tufcj

[Mudrat]

It's the same as a Dana 30 front. As a matter of fact, the Dana 30 and 44 use the same ball joints. I bought mine years ago for my CJ.

Bob
tufcj

Well I have one or two of those here as well, but $amn!! Free shipping but almost $11 for "handling"!!

Yeah - I know:
If you need a tool and don't buy it...
you'll eventually pay for it...
and not have it.
Henry Ford

[fuzz401]

I have the socket

[Mudrat]

I have one now too Carved up the junker socket, now all I need to do is find the right socket for the frigg'n nut (bigger than 1 1/4, smaller than 1 1/2 and I can't find my 'tween sizes?? to losen the BJ.



Think about having the right tool One that fit's a nut to loosen your BJ ... it would be WAAAAAAAYYYYY good right now

[ironman_gq]

I used an 18 inch crescent wrench when I did a buddies ball joints

[Mudrat]

I used an 18 inch crescent wrench when I did a buddies ball joints

Tried an 18" pipe wrench (adjusted correctly) - was afraid I was going to pull the Jeep off the jack stand!!! Found the right socket at Northern Tool for the impact wrench today
tomorrow - the AIR TOOLS!!!!

Like I told Fuzz on the phone, whomever put this axel together didn't know what the &uck they were doing!! It took the spindle nut socket and about 250+ pounds of impact hammer to get the outter nut loose!! They had jacked this thing so tight the slotted washer was starting to thread and the pin on the inner nut was sheared off (might have been part of the problem with the outter bearing coming out in pieces and the race being a perd'y shade of blue??)

Next is the diff - if they can't assemble a wheel bearing right- I doubt the locker is set right. (the rear wasn't too bad though?) And I'm hoping the cost of buying and rebuilding somebody's elses 44 is STILL going to be less than a new one (or a D60FF)

We'll see . . .

Oh, did I mention the 5 nuts holding the brake caliper mount on weren't even tightened down? THAT is the cause of a total rebuild. The dumb ba$tards who "built" this axle got one over on me. A$$ hole!!! If I could find his e-mail or phone number we would have a discussion - but my hard drived crashed and I lost all that

[ironman_gq]

some people just dont have the patience to do it right. I tell people all the time when they ask to help that I rather do it by myself cause if I screw it up I cant blame anyone but myself and my own stupidity

[76-cj7]

5 nuts holding on the brake caliper mount????? Should be 6 for GM, jeep and dodge....ford used 5 nuts to hold the spindle on....you sure you ain't got ford from the knuckle out?????