SYE install

[WARRIORWELDING]

Pretty much, right? I'm kinda seeing 3 options...
1. Pay someone else to do it and never post here again
2. Do it myself, taking it out and on the bench...hoping to not be ridiculed beyond reasonable measures
3. Do it myself in the Jeep....
a) Get it right and escape humiliation
b) FUBAR it and become the new Marty of the boards because I can't even get the simplest mod right.

Only partly right, if I had money I wouldn't do it either.
Bench or Not. It's just extra work.
And for Marty, up until recent your just polar opposites. You have reservations and ask questions. He on the other hand would go like a scud missle until hitting something, not necessarily a target.
I feel like it was in jest and like Me or Marty or any one else I take it all as The Little NC family.
I just think most of us are trying really hard to convey its simplicity.

 

[WARRIORWELDING]

On another note I would gladly except payment for the instal...but your round trip would take longer then the job at hand!

 

[92_SquareEye]

In the Advance Adapters install video (as well as several others), it recommends using RTV on the splines and nut when installing the yokes. I'm pretty sure I've never done this on any yoke. Necessary? Thanks!

 

[NC-V]

Sometimes there will be a rubber sealing washer that goes under the nut that holds the yoke on and that seals the splines from leaking fluid. The RTV replaces the need for the rubber washer. I would recommend some RTV to seal up the splines.

 

[92_SquareEye]

Thanks. I got all the way to reassembly yesterday, but I have the older style with the needle bearings. I need to press those out of the main gear before I can continue....

 

[a_kelley]

Thanks. I got all the way to reassembly yesterday, but I have the older style with the needle bearings. I need to press those out of the main gear before I can continue....

If you have a shop press, use the new shaft to press the bearings out. Worked great on the last one I did.

 

[92_SquareEye]

If you have a shop press, use the new shaft to press the bearings out. Worked great on the last one I did.

I went over to @BRUISER 's shop and he pressed them out for me. It is back in the Jeep now. Waiting for the driveshaft to be made and shipped.

 

[shawn]

Pretty much, right? I'm kinda seeing 3 options...
1. Pay someone else to do it and never post here again
2. Do it myself, taking it out and on the bench...hoping to not be ridiculed beyond reasonable measures
3. Do it myself in the Jeep....
a) Get it right and escape humiliation
b) FUBAR it and become the new Marty of the boards because I can't even get the simplest mod right.

Meh, I fawked up the RTV on the tailshaft housing on one of the ones I did on the bench. I rode around with it like that for a year or so before I got tired of the leaks and resealed the cover with it under the jeep.

 

[92_SquareEye]

Hoping not to have any leaks. RTV'd the case and tail housing pretty solid and added a bit to the splines for good measure...in addition to the star rubber washers. I'm glad I pulled it and did it on the bench. A) my snap ring pliers are not the best and I fought the crap out of each and every one of them; and B) my shift rail had to be cut down about 3/4" and that would have been even less fun under the Jeep. I know I could have broken everything down, but i just went easier for me on the bench. Added new u-joints to the front shaft and am waiting on the rear shaft to be made and sent. Might actually be able to take it out this year. Oddly, that Face thing showed me this memory from 8 yrs ago today....