Cascade Crew

iansane · Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 5:54 pm Post subject: Is this bad?

While adding an ebrake to my car ( Very Happy

) I saw this in the diff. Is this supposed to be jagged looking like this?

fiveoformula · Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 7:47 pm Post subject:

Hmm, I don't remember the diff cover needing to come off when I put my cables in. Squint

iansane · Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 7:52 pm Post subject:

I swapped to LS1s from my LT1s. Shrug

RSFreak · Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 8:10 pm Post subject:

Al Hasse · Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 8:26 pm Post subject:

iansane · Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 8:53 pm Post subject:

So I'm not sure if it's because I rotated the axles a ton while doing this or what, but now the upper and lower spider gears have slide out of alignment and I can't get the rod back in. I tried tapping on the gears to get them to pivot back into place and no dice. Do I have to pull the springs?

chevymad · Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 9:06 pm Post subject:

Car in gear, spin the wheels until the gear lines up. Careful.. dont spin the gears completely out.

Edit.. BY HAND!

iansane · Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 9:13 pm Post subject:

The spiders are rotating along with the housing, unmoving in relation to the housing (and the hole I'm trying to line up is in the housing). Let me grab a picture.

Edit;

chevymad · Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 9:15 pm Post subject:

You have to move both tires.. same direction. I at first figured your posi would do that for you. I usually block one tire with my foot while i turn the other.

chevymad · Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 9:16 pm Post subject:

And of course you cant let the driveline turn either.. thus put it in gear.

iansane · Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 9:19 pm Post subject:

Wow. So simple a caveman could do it. Thanks B.

Twilightoptics · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 7:48 am Post subject:

A tuke a zug zug.

IROCDave · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 3:51 pm Post subject:

Make sure you chock the front tires also, you know, so the car and the floor jack dont roll down the street Very Happy

RSFreak · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 4:53 pm Post subject:

iansane · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 6:42 pm Post subject:

No but when the ball joint nut came off back in '04 I had to have a cop help me push it off the road with a floorjack holding up one corner. Laughing

iansane · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 6:43 pm Post subject:

So I found out today I'm missing a bracket on both sides that holds the end of the ebrake cable. So even after swapping to the LS1s I have no ebrake. Gaaaaahhh!

Al Hasse · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 7:13 pm Post subject:

Missing the pieces that attach to the lower control arm mounts? Like this one?

iansane · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 7:17 pm Post subject:

Yes exactly! I probably took them off years ago when I welded on the reloc brackets and they've disappeared since then.

Al Hasse · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 7:26 pm Post subject:

LT1 brackets are different than these IIRC.

These won't fit around the relocation brackets. There are three ways around that though. You can cut one of the mounting ears off and use only the one side (just break the weld and use the outside mounting ear). Break them apart at the weld, widen them and weld back together (alloy did this IIRC). Or do the first option and weld to the relocation brackets. Looks like maybe a trip to the JY to find a 98-02 F-body.

The fitment issue is the main reason I haven't installed relocation brackets yet.

Alphius · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:36 pm Post subject:

I might have a set of those for that LS1 rear Ian. Let me look tomorrow.