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Re: F350 knuckle swap
« Reply #30 on: March 13, 2012, 09:18:13 AM »
He lacks the nick technology needed to do it erock

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Re: F350 knuckle swap
« Reply #31 on: March 13, 2012, 11:57:42 AM »
do you know how to fixture an angle grinder, sparky?
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Re: F350 knuckle swap
« Reply #32 on: March 13, 2012, 03:04:19 PM »
see if I had this setup sitting around I'd be all set

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Re: F350 knuckle swap
« Reply #33 on: March 13, 2012, 06:47:14 PM »
That looks like what I used for my rims

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« Reply #34 on: March 13, 2012, 10:04:35 PM »
Precision! Thought they'd be too tall but it worked great.



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Re: F350 knuckle swap
« Reply #35 on: March 13, 2012, 11:11:19 PM »
Huzzah!

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« Reply #36 on: March 13, 2012, 11:30:48 PM »
Probably would've gotten as far as Ball joints and painting the knuckles, but I ended up selling the ring and pinion and I needed to strip the housing of those...

I did at least get the axles separated
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« Reply #37 on: March 13, 2012, 11:51:45 PM »
Amazingly, I found that my garage DID have room for even more mess :-/

I'll need a scrap run soon!
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« Reply #38 on: March 20, 2012, 12:23:03 AM »
Bent the ball joint press and ran out of grease. Should be done tomorrow night after a parts run.

So much crusty rust :-x
Spent more time hammering and chiseling scale and wire wheeling than anything else.

All except new calipers are painted. Need ball joints installed, inner bearings greased, inner hub seals installed, spindle bearings and seals installed. Aside from that I'm up against old truck tear down for axle ujoint assembly, brake bleeding, and general assembly. I hope the cutoff wheel fits to just hack the ball joints. I don't feel like dealing with full correct teardown of unit bearings. might be easier in the long run than disassembly later though.

All existing wheel bearings were good. One bad axle seal and spindle bearing. Getting new hub and axle seals and both spindle bearings replaced. Never worth reusing spindle bearings, at least one is almost always bad at teardown.
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« Reply #39 on: March 21, 2012, 02:52:49 AM »
Should be all set as soon as I suck the rest of the lug studs in with the impact.

Have an odd unsolved issue on the passenger side, the hub is out about 3/8" further. I may tear it back down at some future point and swap inner bearing and race in case they're wrong parts. It seems to be sitting where it had been on the old axle judging from seal marks on the spindle. The inner bearing doesn't have the typical 1/4" of slop between itself and the hub seal, it's nearly tight. Noticed that as soon as I put the seal in. Pulled it, felt around, things feel seated. Put it back together and no change. It was getting late so I found a couple washers to shim the brake bracket as needed and I'll take a test drive tomorrow and make sure it doesn't do anything funny and worry about it sooner or later as appropriate.

I hate bleeding new calipers, that took FOREVER.
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« Reply #40 on: March 21, 2012, 09:21:17 AM »
Highly successful 0.3 mile test drive!!

Had to tighten screws on my impact, it was a weak, leaking machine. Now it's back to 600 foot pound status.
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« Reply #41 on: March 21, 2012, 09:21:54 AM »
Sweet replaced parts



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Re: F350 knuckle swap
« Reply #42 on: March 21, 2012, 09:27:03 AM »
wow thats hosed

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Re: F350 knuckle swap
« Reply #43 on: March 21, 2012, 09:28:07 AM »
bus full of nuns territory

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Re: F350 knuckle swap
« Reply #44 on: March 21, 2012, 10:29:52 AM »
Id run them