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When first looking at it and talking with Arlee, it sounded like he was running crush sleeves and loosing preload. He had said the pinion was loose and had to tighten the yoke nut by 1/4 turn and restake it. We pulled the diff apart and found a factory crush sleeve and no shims. We slapped it...

Thanks everyone for the replies. I need to measure out the inner, outer knuckle, the bearing pocket and the spindle. Don't need it long term, could probably get the measurements needed in about an hour. Does anyone have one tore down already? Edit: Thanks for the call earlier Brandon!

Anyone in the the Tacoma and south area have a Rockwell steer axle I can do some measurements on? Preferably tore apart...... If not, I'll need to tear it apart...... :redneck:

Set up correctly, you should be getting good life out of the Yukons; we've had real good luck with them. You are fairly close to me, get that 3rd up to Centralia and I'll take a good look at it for you. If you want to bring your housing up we can check that too.

X2 on the tents sucks thing Clark, if the wind is blowing, it is way worse than you can imagine. We stayed the last couple years with a friend in his Motorhome; 2 years ago the wind was so bad that the MH was swaying a foot or two to one side (at least it seemed that bad :D). It is also a...

Yes, you need to swap axles, the stock Sami stuff barely holds its own with the 1.3s and 1.6 swaps, anything bigger is asking for broken parts. 1.6 is a nice easy weekend swap and not too bad on the pocket book if you can find a good engine at a decent price. 2.0 is a decent swap too, call...

Cool to hear Pook, kick some ass!

And vehicle weight.

Nope, pretty sure I meant 5+ gears; that covers the 5.71s as well as the 5.29s.

Have your diffs put together by someone who knows what they are doing and the 5+ gearsets will be OK. Pay good hard cash or bribe someone with beer or liquor, either way get it done right.

Nice report and pics! Thanks.

Not yet, but will find out and post up when they are available.

Wanted to run it for the past couple years... This year, it was the same weekend as the Marlin Roundup. The year before it was the same weekend as the Pomona OR Expo.

[/lurk mode] :D [lurk mode] .

Odie, Todd from Aqualu is talking about bringing his big FJ40 down for a snow run mid Jan. Let me know when you have a firm day and I'll pass the word along. Tommy B.... better bring down that battery and fuel pump, your rig will fit this trip. :flipoff: