rear yoke install?

[07metallicgreen]

I got a bigger drive shaft made and it came with a new yoke. What do I all need to do for the install? I was told I do not need a new crush sleeve, but how do I make sure bearing preload and pinion depth does not change? A couple people told me just to swap them because it takes somewhere around 200ft pounds to crush the sleeve. I just don't want to screw anything up
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[clrussell]

You'll need a good puller and a 36mm 12pt socket..

Might as well do a pinion seal while your there if you have any question about it.


As long as you don't hammer the piss out of the nut going back on you'll be fine. It takes ALOT to crush that crush sleeve. I always put red loctite on the nut going back on.

 

[07metallicgreen]

Okay thank you. Should I use an impact or tighten with a breaker bar, rachet, toque wrench?
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[clrussell]

Okay thank you. Should I use an impact or tighten with a breaker bar, rachet, toque wrench?
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I use an impact

 

[Awenta]

Index the nut before you take it off

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[2004LB7]

2x. ^^^

Mark the nut and count the turns comming off. When putting it back on red locktite and/or double stake it.

I wouldn't use an impact wrench as you don't want the risk of over tightening it or loosing track of the turns. I just put 4.10s in my truck a little bit ago and it took over 500 lb/ft to start crushing the sleeve but got easier as it crushed more. Probably went down to somewhere around 300 lb/ft when i was done.

 

[x MadMAX DIESEL]

It doesn't take a press to crush a crush sleeve. Only really really hard when they are new and not started. You might need some heat to pull it off. That glue shit gm puts on it is like concrete taking it off the first time. If it was Mine id just run it till it stops with an impact easy too. That's a crushed lock nut, it's hard to turn free by hand tool, but when it hits the sleeve you'll know it and you can stop there. Marking the nut is a good idea but I just quit doing that and run it by feel. You can't set preload with a seal in it anyhow


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[slipclutchms]

The pinion depth won't change but the pinion pre-load will. The correct way to do it is remove the differential and verify rotating torque. I have not had good experiences just putting a new yoke on and hoping for the best. If your just replacing a seal a lot of guys will mark the nut and put it exactly back but that is with the same yoke as came off. A lot of torque goes thru there at a lot of rpms. Something to think about anyways

 

[fc8464]

^^^^ I am with him. But just pull the axles and get total preload. If you do enough diff work you can feel the pinion preload just in the back lash. Every body has there own way of doing things. Fred

 

[malibu795]

^^^^ I am with him. But just pull the axles and get total preload. If you do enough diff work you can feel the pinion preload just in the back lash. Every body has there own way of doing things. Fred

Need to carrier as well to get correct preload.. Or find out what it is with carrier installed and match it with new yoke...my new yoke was tight as hell