Friday, June 8, 2012
New rear axle
To install a new axle it can be difficult, you will need to first un tighten your lug nuts. Then jack the rear end of your car up, and finishing un-bolting your tires. Once this is done you should get under your car and start to unblot your drive shaft. There should be a U-joint you will take the codder pin out of either side then slide the bolt out of the two u joints, now your drive shaft should drop down, now the drive shaft should be out of your way. Next you should unbolt the rear diff from your axle there should be eight bolts two on each side. Once you have the diff cover off and the fluid drained you should start removing the gears out of the housing as it is draining you can remove your breaks. to do this their should be two mounting bolts on the back side of the break caliper. Remove those two bolts, and then hang the calipers on somthing do not let them hang freely as it is a saftey hazard. You can now take of the actualy roder there should be a hole somewhere on the roder, take the mmounting scre it should fit right in the hole and screw it in, this will seperate the roder from the actuall axle. Once you have this done it is time to move back to the rear diff. their should be eight studs inside the rear diff housing unscrew the studs from the rear axle. You can now completely take off the rear diff. All thats left to take off is the suspension for stock suspension you should unbolt a u bolt around the leaf springs which should allow the rear axle to drop down. Now that you have removed everything you should be able to put the new one in. To do this start off with the suspension. then put the rear diff back on with all the gears and the cover, then put the roters on and calipers and hook the drive shaft up. All you have left to do now is re bolt the wheels back on now when you frist put the new rear axle on drive around your neighborhood to let the new diff fluid adjust to the new power of the axle. This is esential or your diff will blow very quickly.
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