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Re: F350 knuckle swap
« Reply #15 on: March 11, 2012, 08:37:43 PM »
no time and my lathe in my lab only goes to 4" on the 4 jaw chuck
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Re: F350 knuckle swap
« Reply #16 on: March 11, 2012, 08:38:21 PM »
M4 can do it Nick style though....
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Re: F350 knuckle swap
« Reply #17 on: March 11, 2012, 09:28:40 PM »
Nick style is all about getting it done!
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« Reply #18 on: March 11, 2012, 09:53:22 PM »
I was thinking of nick styling it, not so sure on that though!

Bridgeport rotator table?

Wish Vic was closer. 45 minute drive kills me almost as much as just plain being busy as fuck.

Flying out weds night again, want to be ready for assembly Sunday when I get back. Lotsa miles to burn. Want to keep the truck rollable until it's ready for reassembly...

I can push the PA night trip back if I need to, drop dead is Friday in that case. I'm not gonna miss a weekend.



I swear I used to have a tool to deal with problems like this one:


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« Reply #19 on: March 11, 2012, 09:57:28 PM »
That forklift sitting in NJ really belongs at M4WD, by the way

Thought of that on the way home...
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« Reply #20 on: March 11, 2012, 10:01:59 PM »
Oh - the reason for the sudden priority....

Both rotors were shitty 12-15k ago when I slapped pads on them. All 4 surfaces were roughly even though and I lubed the pins nice... All was well.

I guess this rotor was angry on one side and just shucked all the friction material off the inner pad and went metal to metal pretty soon after....



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Re: F350 knuckle swap
« Reply #21 on: March 11, 2012, 10:05:05 PM »
that is a sick rotor!


I dont need a fork truck i have a shovel with a sweet PTO boom!
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« Reply #22 on: March 11, 2012, 10:09:55 PM »
Not enough travel in the piston to close that gap I quickly found - but didn't break it.

I shoved the piston back in, pulled the caliper, found a bush mechanic rated spacer, used some sweet Frontier zip ties and carried on. I debated finding a rotor and pads for a bit, decided I'd try this and see how bad it was. Trailer brakes and exhaust brake were both behaving and the drums had fresh shoes, it was tolerable.

Brakes on that thing have been so shitty that aside from the pull it wasn't as big an impact as it should have been. Drove carefully, stuck to interstates and avoided traffic wherever I could.... I think I used up my good luck for a while. Probably had enough due to being 1/4 Irish and close to St. Patty's? Luck of the Irish!


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« Reply #23 on: March 11, 2012, 10:11:38 PM »
Oh - no symptoms at all until I got a little ratcheting feeling as I came to a stop, about a dozen stops before crunching noises. Never made noise. Damn thing.

Just as good as the steering. Which is fully better now. I probably didn't post about that... Drag link adjuster snapped as I was about to back into the parking lot in Syracuse.
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Re: F350 knuckle swap
« Reply #24 on: March 11, 2012, 10:18:39 PM »
lol


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« Reply #25 on: March 11, 2012, 11:30:52 PM »
Less of a pile with every new part!

Garage didn't collapse. I'll be over sometime to press studs out. They're the right thread so I don't wanna wreck them, and they laugh at my air hammer... 2#er is occupied ;D

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« Reply #26 on: March 11, 2012, 11:33:54 PM »
My cat pic is the best part of this thread.
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« Reply #27 on: March 12, 2012, 12:53:43 AM »
Need a 12pt 9/16 to get the rotors off the hub

Need an un-modified d60 spindle socket to get one side broken free.

Need to look at the writeup on this to remind myself of steering joint stuff. I think I just need to hog out the tapers in the ford knuckles and the dodge stuff bolts up.
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« Reply #28 on: March 12, 2012, 10:28:05 PM »
A D60 exploded all over my garage. Scaly rust piles everywhere!

100% torn down though. Knuckles are ready for ball joint removal and wire wheeling, hubs are ready for magical metal removal.

If I can figure out how to fixture a grinder, I can bolt a spindle to the bench and do it plenty accurately. Not sure how to do that though... I need more whacky shit laying around to build things off of.
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« Reply #29 on: March 13, 2012, 08:21:51 AM »
So you can do it plenty accurately but you don't know how? Haha
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