UnkleMunky
06-12-2001, 10:49 AM
OK....I know some of this has been discussed in various ways before, and I'd asked a general question on this a few weeks back. Been driving the car mostly and finally got the J10 jacked up and checked the brakes/bearings as best I could.
I checked the diff fluid/gasket a little over a week ago and put in a new gasket and fluid. Also checked for "play" in both rear wheels then and nothing that seemed out of ordinary. Same noise with new diff fluid. Kind of a grating/revolution sound in the rear end.
OK....pulled off the drums and looked at the brakes. Left side drum is pretty rusty and in iffy shape....brakes are "ok" but I'm thinking of doing ALL new while I'm at this one...even new drums. Check the right(pass.) side and whoah....greasy, grimey all over. Caked on the brakes, inside of the drum, and looking like it's coming out of the axle. "Seal"??? Could this be a dead seal and then the bearing going now? With the grating sound, just curious if that sounds likely?
Obviously, it looks like a notable cleanup and full rear brake job(have to clean the junk off anyway), and rear bearings as well. I had checked on prices last week and can get the bearings pressed at a local parts shop pretty reasonably. They'd mentioned I have an "inner seal" to deal with. I'd also found mention of the inner race needing to be slide-pulled out. I'll grab the TSM and look the info over tonight, but wondering if this is sounding right to those who know better?
I'm figuring all new for brakes as I just want to do this once and get a lot of good miles out of the rear end yet! Will cost a little more, but I want this to last sometime now!
Thanks for any ipput.
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Michael(UnkleMunky)
'78 J10: 258, 4 speed, longbed, topper
'76 J10: Honcho, 360, TH400/QT
'89 Plymouth Reliant(PluggerMobile)
J-Pages(some of my auto pages) (http://www.eskie.net/superior/j-pages/index.htm)
unklemunky@eskie.net
I checked the diff fluid/gasket a little over a week ago and put in a new gasket and fluid. Also checked for "play" in both rear wheels then and nothing that seemed out of ordinary. Same noise with new diff fluid. Kind of a grating/revolution sound in the rear end.
OK....pulled off the drums and looked at the brakes. Left side drum is pretty rusty and in iffy shape....brakes are "ok" but I'm thinking of doing ALL new while I'm at this one...even new drums. Check the right(pass.) side and whoah....greasy, grimey all over. Caked on the brakes, inside of the drum, and looking like it's coming out of the axle. "Seal"??? Could this be a dead seal and then the bearing going now? With the grating sound, just curious if that sounds likely?
Obviously, it looks like a notable cleanup and full rear brake job(have to clean the junk off anyway), and rear bearings as well. I had checked on prices last week and can get the bearings pressed at a local parts shop pretty reasonably. They'd mentioned I have an "inner seal" to deal with. I'd also found mention of the inner race needing to be slide-pulled out. I'll grab the TSM and look the info over tonight, but wondering if this is sounding right to those who know better?
I'm figuring all new for brakes as I just want to do this once and get a lot of good miles out of the rear end yet! Will cost a little more, but I want this to last sometime now!
Thanks for any ipput.
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Michael(UnkleMunky)
'78 J10: 258, 4 speed, longbed, topper
'76 J10: Honcho, 360, TH400/QT
'89 Plymouth Reliant(PluggerMobile)
J-Pages(some of my auto pages) (http://www.eskie.net/superior/j-pages/index.htm)
unklemunky@eskie.net