Happy New Year....This vid reminds me about my dragging days in the late 50's early 60's here in MN. So glad to see you/Teresa and poochie back. Missed ya.
I just bought myself one of those Milwaukee compressors a few months ago! It's an amazing tool to keep in your truck! Great choice for a gift. GREAT VIDEO FOLKS!
I do enjoy your videos. I wish I was back in the area so I could bring you some work. It's so hard to find anyone that is trustworthy anymore. My uncle says your the best anywhere around. I'm from Groom but off in Kansas now. Next time I'm in town I'd enjoy saying hello.
Merry Christmas! Welcome to the "GOLDEN YEARS" . The trick, as I have found it is to quickly realize that you have begun the process of falling, and devote the next few fractions of a second preparing to land, which is certainly coming next. Keith Olberman gave a short synopsis on his Monday "Countdown" on You Tube. FYI, another feature of the golden years is the potato peeler up the old wazoo to address bladder retention. On my original note, thanks for the 8" autopsy. If I may, I will include my narration of the process. I know that you are intimately aware of these terms znd processes, but many others are not, and it is for them that I post this. First, this is a stamped housing axle assembly that loads the pig from the front, and has a closed back end. The other style being the integral pig with pushed-in housing tubes, which appears to be more popular today. As you shared while pulling the pig, there are flat washers, but they should not be brass, but soft copper, much like brake banjo washers. Their purpose is to deform when installed, providing a mechanical seal for the oil. As such, if they can be re-used, which is not desirable, they should be heated to redness on a fire brick, and allowed to cool, to restore any ductility which may still be present, although new washers are desirable. Moving to the axle ends, the hole in the axle end was, and is the access for the retaining nuts that hold the bearing retaining plate and the brake backing plate. A small punch can be employed to knock the bolts out of the axle flange, which may make the axle removal easier.. Now we have the axle, bearing to housing retainer plate, Sealed bearing assembly and bearing to axle shaft retaining ring, the "wedding ring". For disassembly, there are a bunch of "hacks" involving grinders, chisels, torches, etc, but I have found that a bearing splitter, some fine thread hardened "all thread" lets me make a set-up in my press that pulls it apart one element at a time. To install the new bearing and the old ring, set them on an incandescent lightbulb for about 10 minutes, and press into position, remembering to install the retaining plate first, so you don't lose your 100 attaboys. For the pig disassembly, The sidelocks are removed and the saddle bearing bolts loosened. The side adjusters are slackened and removed then the saddle bearing caps. Marking the caps is a good idea, but should this be forgotted, an examination of the side adjuster treads or bearing bore cross-hatching can be utilized for proper identification. The first bearing cup to come off, the grayish one, it's shot. Any graying of the cup denotes wear to the point of replacement of the whole assembly, cup and cone. Bearings are the best deal in precision in the entire vehicle, given the manufacturing tolerances and metallurgy versus cost. Don't spoil a good job for a few bucks.. The next part is the pinion. After seeing how this is addressed, it's no wonder why these are popular in the go-fast crowd.This is a "caged" pinion, the removable element containing the pinion and bearings being the cage. This is also a "straddle" pinion rather than an "overhung" pinion. The bearing in the case for the pinion nose, gives a much more rigid set-up and more desirable resolution of the forces involved between the pinion and ring. Larger trucks use this almost exclusively, which is where I see them. Don't put this bearing in until the pinion depth and side play have been set up. After all the patterns have been set, pull out the cage, install the bearing on the pinion nose and re-install. On the subject of the seal-saver. I have never found it to be necessary to use an oversize seal and have never had any seal failure issues. Years ago, a grooved surface would be turned undersize, and an appropriate seal chosen from the dimensional listing. Just lube everything well with grease when installing seals, the first few minutes are critical. And the smell!! Nothing like good old Molybdenum Sulfide. It's an oldie, but a very goodie. Puts the EP in EP lube, right where it ought to be. Gets smellier as time goes on, probably due to heat and agitation leading to oxidation and sulfur dioxide, but that's just a guess. If anybody's still reading, I am in desperate need of a Gunite/Accuride 3258 6"x16" inside mount brake drum, or a lead on where to find one. Thanks.
Wow! You really know what you are talking about. I have worked on these things and I actually learned a thing or two. Thanks! Even though I haven't touched one since the '90s and certainly don't anticipate touching one now.
Merry Christmas and New Year to you guys too, I love your videos but I do not see many assembly videos, I appreciate that these may be longer and more complicated but would love to see one or two. 🙂
Rich, brake dust is no fun. I put a vehicle in the air, bring a trash can over and place it below the backing plate and use a garden 'ose to wash it outta there. Those diesel heaters are freakin outstanding for the money!
2025 will be great and red! Great video! I've redone my Ford 8.8 in my 97 f150 and it's alot different. But I was thinking about switching my 8.8 in my mustang to a 9 inch Ford.
Tried to find out about that heater you have got there but there isn't anything listed here.. Guess I will look someplace else. Hope you had a great Christmas.
Nice thing of those is no pressing bearings on and off or removing races repeatedly to set positions/preload. However, they were more expensive to manufacture.
1st person I ever heard call an 8" strong. All the other parts may be strong but more than once I seen an 8” pop up the head off the pinion gear with 14" street tires, automatic and 289 2 barrel carb.
Wheel cylinder is what that thingamagiggy is that pushes your shoes out when you push on the brake pedal. I almost called it a brake calliper bean so long since i worked on brakes
Happy New Year....This vid reminds me about my dragging days in the late 50's early 60's here in MN. So glad to see you/Teresa and poochie back. Missed ya.
A knowledgable mechanic with speed, and dexterity that also appears to be a gentleman.
Oh come on, it cannot only be me that thinks Teresa sounds like Wilma Flinstone !! Especially her funny Wilma laugh ! 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Watching from Australia !
Happy New Year’s Richard and Teresa
Merry Christmas to you both 🎄🎁 everyone else watching 🙏❤️
I just bought myself one of those Milwaukee compressors a few months ago!
It's an amazing tool to keep in your truck!
Great choice for a gift.
GREAT VIDEO FOLKS!
Merry Christmas and happy new year from Canada. Love the show!
Merry Christmas y'all
So glad to see you guys still posting and going strong. Hope you all have a great 2025.
Merry Christmas to ya'll as well. I am a GM guy but I do like that third member design.
Annie is so good just sitting there.
You should install an axle drain in the axle housing while you have the axle housing out of the car.
We used to call those axle bearing retainers “WEDDING RINGS”.
Love you guys. Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year... health and happiness to you and the family. Give Annie a big ole hug fer me!!!!
I do enjoy your videos. I wish I was back in the area so I could bring you some work. It's so hard to find anyone that is trustworthy anymore. My uncle says your the best anywhere around. I'm from Groom but off in Kansas now. Next time I'm in town I'd enjoy saying hello.
Come on by
Merry Christmas.... also from Tx.... Central Tx..... but y'all have the best videos on the you tubes.....
I was always taught when doing drum brakes to replace everything since you have it apart. Thats actually called the wheel cylinder
Merry Christmas, and have a Happy New Year!! Feel better Richard!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
looking good, only if we can get some human doctors and do the work like you do your mechanic work 🙂
late merry CHRISTMAS too all
Happy new year folks.
Happy new year
Annie, looks tired, needs a Christmas Steak to wake her up.
Merry Christmas! Welcome to the "GOLDEN YEARS" . The trick, as I have found it is to quickly realize that you have begun the process of falling, and devote the next few fractions of a second preparing to land, which is certainly coming next. Keith Olberman gave a short synopsis on his Monday "Countdown" on You Tube. FYI, another feature of the golden years is the potato peeler up the old wazoo to address bladder retention. On my original note, thanks for the 8" autopsy. If I may, I will include my narration of the process. I know that you are intimately aware of these terms znd processes, but many others are not, and it is for them that I post this. First, this is a stamped housing axle assembly that loads the pig from the front, and has a closed back end. The other style being the integral pig with pushed-in housing tubes, which appears to be more popular today. As you shared while pulling the pig, there are flat washers, but they should not be brass, but soft copper, much like brake banjo washers. Their purpose is to deform when installed, providing a mechanical seal for the oil. As such, if they can be re-used, which is not desirable, they should be heated to redness on a fire brick, and allowed to cool, to restore any ductility which may still be present, although new washers are desirable. Moving to the axle ends, the hole in the axle end was, and is the access for the retaining nuts that hold the bearing retaining plate and the brake backing plate. A small punch can be employed to knock the bolts out of the axle flange, which may make the axle removal easier.. Now we have the axle, bearing to housing retainer plate, Sealed bearing assembly and bearing to axle shaft retaining ring, the "wedding ring". For disassembly, there are a bunch of "hacks" involving grinders, chisels, torches, etc, but I have found that a bearing splitter, some fine thread hardened "all thread" lets me make a set-up in my press that pulls it apart one element at a time. To install the new bearing and the old ring, set them on an incandescent lightbulb for about 10 minutes, and press into position, remembering to install the retaining plate first, so you don't lose your 100 attaboys.
For the pig disassembly, The sidelocks are removed and the saddle bearing bolts loosened. The side adjusters are slackened and removed then the saddle bearing caps. Marking the caps is a good idea, but should this be forgotted, an examination of the side adjuster treads or bearing bore cross-hatching can be utilized for proper identification. The first bearing cup to come off, the grayish one, it's shot. Any graying of the cup denotes wear to the point of replacement of the whole assembly, cup and cone. Bearings are the best deal in precision in the entire vehicle, given the manufacturing tolerances and metallurgy versus cost. Don't spoil a good job for a few bucks.. The next part is the pinion. After seeing how this is addressed, it's no wonder why these are popular in the go-fast crowd.This is a "caged" pinion, the removable element containing the pinion and bearings being the cage. This is also a "straddle" pinion rather than an "overhung" pinion. The bearing in the case for the pinion nose, gives a much more rigid set-up and more desirable resolution of the forces involved between the pinion and ring. Larger trucks use this almost exclusively, which is where I see them. Don't put this bearing in until the pinion depth and side play have been set up. After all the patterns have been set, pull out the cage, install the bearing on the pinion nose and re-install. On the subject of the seal-saver. I have never found it to be necessary to use an oversize seal and have never had any seal failure issues. Years ago, a grooved surface would be turned undersize, and an appropriate seal chosen from the dimensional listing. Just lube everything well with grease when installing seals, the first few minutes are critical.
And the smell!! Nothing like good old Molybdenum Sulfide. It's an oldie, but a very goodie. Puts the EP in EP lube, right where it ought to be. Gets smellier as time goes on, probably due to heat and agitation leading to oxidation and sulfur dioxide, but that's just a guess.
If anybody's still reading, I am in desperate need of a Gunite/Accuride 3258 6"x16" inside mount brake drum, or a lead on where to find one. Thanks.
Wow! You really know what you are talking about. I have worked on these things and I actually learned a thing or two. Thanks! Even though I haven't touched one since the '90s and certainly don't anticipate touching one now.
very nice marry christmas
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from North Carolina.
Merry Christmas and New Year to you guys too, I love your videos but I do not see many assembly videos, I appreciate that these may be longer and more complicated but would love to see one or two. 🙂
The right 9" would hold up to the power of 5000 HP funny cars!!! And they are called "wheel cylinders".
Merry Christmas to you!!
Rich, brake dust is no fun. I put a vehicle in the air, bring a trash can over and place it below the backing plate and use a garden 'ose to wash it outta there.
Those diesel heaters are freakin outstanding for the money!
Merry Christmas to y'all
2025 will be great and red! Great video! I've redone my Ford 8.8 in my 97 f150 and it's alot different. But I was thinking about switching my 8.8 in my mustang to a 9 inch Ford.
They got a working pupper too? Man im jealous 😂
I am not sure which is worse, brake dust or the smell of some of the gear lubes and additives that are sold.
That's why I like to use a clean shop cloth for everything. Clean, clean and cleaner is my motto.
Merry Christmas! 🎄 🎄 🎄
Y'all need to put a set of slapper bars on it. AKA traction bars. Those rear ends move around a bunch.
Nah... Ditch that 8 inch and put in an 8.8 with 4 link and an antirollbar. I'm sure someone makes a kit to do it.
Tried to find out about that heater you have got there but there isn't anything listed here.. Guess I will look someplace else. Hope you had a great Christmas.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to anie ,terresa and Richard, oh and Cody when he comes by❤😂
Dust can be sprayed with water to keep it down.
If that car is getting more HP the leaf springs need to be beefed up. And maybe add traction bars
Missed seeing you at PRI this year
Nice thing of those is no pressing bearings on and off or removing races repeatedly to set positions/preload. However, they were more expensive to manufacture.
Merry Christmas!!!
Would you provide more information about the diesel parking heater. Perhaps a link to a webpage. 🙏📿🙏
That fuel filter on top of the exhaust is scarry.
1st person I ever heard call an 8" strong. All the other parts may be strong but more than once I seen an 8” pop up the head off the pinion gear with 14" street tires, automatic and 289 2 barrel carb.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Wheel cylinder is what that thingamagiggy is that pushes your shoes out when you push on the brake pedal. I almost called it a brake calliper bean so long since i worked on brakes
Greetings from downunder luv ya vids 🇦🇺👌
Merry Christmas 🎄 ❤👍
Happy New year
Merry Christmas
you can also count the teeth, on the ring and pinion gears
Wheel cylinder is the drum brake shoe expander.
Rear end oil stinks no matter how new or old. Nasty sulfur but it has to be there to protect the gears.
Wheel cylinder
Thank you it was on the end of my tongue. I just couldn’t spit it out.
I was drawing a blank about the wheel cylinder until Richard pulled the drivers side axel.
@ Happens to me all the time
Hi, can you help with a part number for an input shaft lockup oring from a 6l80e 2018 Tahoe. Thanks
I would call Raymond at Transtar. He will not be in until Monday.
Wheel cylinder Richard I do stuff like that every day but I'm a decade ollder
I can’t tell you how many of those I’ve changed. I just couldn’t spit it out for some reason.
It's a wheel cylinder.
Wheel cylinder maybe is the name
Why you got comments turned off on so many of your older videos. Specifically your videos about 6L80s. Comments are a great place to leave extra tips
Dont you have a oil fired heater up on the wall?
What's the weak link or typical failure points on a 8"?
How do I get in touch with you about a transmission
Google them, its a normal business it pops right up and you can hit call on the google listing
How much power will those 8" handle i have a 68 mustang with one in it and we just dropped in a 347 450 hp 480 trq
Just my 2 cents. It'll do fine without slicks. If you're just planning on driving it and smoking the tires.😁
I hate the smell of old diff fluid in the morning.
wheel cylinder
Wheel cyclinders
clean off the nuts so it better working with a clean job
You are right we clean everything. We have an awesome parts cleaner.
Sciatica, so much fun (not) !
Merry Christmas 🎄
Wheel cylinder
Wheel cylinder
wheel cylinder..