I can't help you with your search because I'm on the dry side of the state but I will say one thing, even though this site has vendors who pay to advertise here, its nice as a member to be able to recommend a non vendor business in a general chat area without receiving a nasty pm from...
After spending some money which a portion ends up with the state. Most people will just pay the fine instead of dealing with the hassle of fighting the ticket, they know this and train for this no matter how much they deny it a very small portion of law enforcement actually protects the populace...
A polycrystalline cubic boron nitride (CBN) tool with a TiN coating is what I used to make setup bearings for my 60 but the average wheeler doesn't have the tooling or equipment like that just laying around lol. You can use a brake hone with medium grit stones but I heard its time consuming.
And if you want to split hairs the differential in question is a 8.8 not toyota 8" which in that case the spool will bend but a welded Carrier will take the gears out. Its not the spools fault but the inherent design of the toyota diff.
I called yesterday, no answer. Probably because of the holiday weekend but I heard it's difficult to get in touch with him anyways. It would be nice if he had one on the shelf he could ship me instead of going thru the process of having my local machinist make one.
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A pirate search led me here. I'm looking for the cat that owns DD machine or someone with knowledge as to whether he still produces the doubler kits. Mainly the shaft between the two gearboxes is what I need. The 231 is a GM model.
Thanks boys:kiss: