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I'm just going to change the whole chunk out. I'll pull the bed, lift the chunk out with my wrecker, drop the new chunk in, then put the dropside I have back on there. Just have to order a third member to housing gasket. Ill fix this one later, when I'm not relying on it for transport.

That's funny. I found a piece of a shim in the rear axle when I changed the oil in it, but it has no problems or end play yet. Nothing in the oil on the intermediate.

Ha, you posted before I could edit. That is the thread I found, and has the part numbers.

Well I tightened it as much as I am comfortable doing, and it still has more movement than I like. I must have battered the bearings out of spec. I did not think to get the number off of the race while I had the seal retainer off either, and the bearing and race numbers are not in the quick...

Yes I did, thoroughly before I took the first fastener off. The shims adjust the preload, but the bearing retention collar presses onto the cross shaft to retain the tapered bearings against the shims. My rear pinion nut was installed loosely and it looks like that gave room for the collar to...

Took the rear seal retainer off and inspected the bearing. No sign of failure, no metal dust or shavings, oil was clean. I went ahead and replaced the rear pinion seal on this axle because it has been leaking. Put it all back together and went to town on both pinion nuts with my 1" impact, but...

My intermediate axle has lost the pinion preload and given me a vibration. I've done about 800-900 miles in the past five days and the bearings have not burned up on me and it hasn't gotten any worse so I'm fairly sure the bearings are not bad, just lost the preload. I understand that this is...