Emergency Brakes...
Emergency Brakes...
I has none now...LOL...
I have a noise in my truck right now so I decided to start dropping all the fluids out of my truck today to do a little preventive maintenance on it. Pulled the pan on the rearend and found a tooth from something, dont know what, but its a metal tooth, and I can't find where it came from. I also found out that my differential pin has been walking around some and has wore the differential slightly so it has a little play, looks like its time for a lunch box locker at some point. Well I pulled the calipers and rotors off also and found what I had suspected, both of my parking brakes were junk. I undone the cables and stripped all the parking brake parts off the axle and left the cables. I am going to just put a TCI Line Lock on it cause that will work better than the crappy factory setup that never worked that good to begin with. I was looking at my rotors and realized one was wore down to about 1/2 the size of a stock one and the other was getting thin. The pads were good but the rotors were straight junk. Since Advance Auto Parts is running a 2 rotor and gold pads deal I went ahead and bought the rear rotors and pads (I will keep the pads for later) and put them on. I put the rear diff cover on and dumped in 2 quarts of Coastal 80/90 and the rest was Lucas Gear Stabilizer. Started on the front differential by draining it and I only had 1 bottle of 80/90 left (forgot to account for the front axle when I bought the stuff) so I went back this evening and got 2 more and will finish up the front diff tomorrow along with changing the tranny, t-case, and engine oil along with a fuel filter. While I was under the truck I spun the front passenger side tire and water started running out of my CV boot, I believe this is my noise problem, though I do plan to stick all 4 corners on jackstands and run the truck up in the air to see if I can pin-point the noise. This sucks as I didn't want to buy a CV shaft but on well, I will get two from the junkyard and be done with it.
I have a noise in my truck right now so I decided to start dropping all the fluids out of my truck today to do a little preventive maintenance on it. Pulled the pan on the rearend and found a tooth from something, dont know what, but its a metal tooth, and I can't find where it came from. I also found out that my differential pin has been walking around some and has wore the differential slightly so it has a little play, looks like its time for a lunch box locker at some point. Well I pulled the calipers and rotors off also and found what I had suspected, both of my parking brakes were junk. I undone the cables and stripped all the parking brake parts off the axle and left the cables. I am going to just put a TCI Line Lock on it cause that will work better than the crappy factory setup that never worked that good to begin with. I was looking at my rotors and realized one was wore down to about 1/2 the size of a stock one and the other was getting thin. The pads were good but the rotors were straight junk. Since Advance Auto Parts is running a 2 rotor and gold pads deal I went ahead and bought the rear rotors and pads (I will keep the pads for later) and put them on. I put the rear diff cover on and dumped in 2 quarts of Coastal 80/90 and the rest was Lucas Gear Stabilizer. Started on the front differential by draining it and I only had 1 bottle of 80/90 left (forgot to account for the front axle when I bought the stuff) so I went back this evening and got 2 more and will finish up the front diff tomorrow along with changing the tranny, t-case, and engine oil along with a fuel filter. While I was under the truck I spun the front passenger side tire and water started running out of my CV boot, I believe this is my noise problem, though I do plan to stick all 4 corners on jackstands and run the truck up in the air to see if I can pin-point the noise. This sucks as I didn't want to buy a CV shaft but on well, I will get two from the junkyard and be done with it.



