By Eric B and Tony K
These are things that you may find helpful and just might not have thought of prior to making a huge mess.
Bend a little foil trough for draining the radiator into a bucket. Works great and easy to collect the water compared to letting it run off the frame!
If you have to make a trail fix on an axle, put a strap around the axle so that when you jack up that corner the wheel will come off the ground sooner. Make things safer as you don’t have to lift the rig as much.
Put parts you remove in plastic bags to organize and keep them clean. Keeps you from loosing them, especially during a trail fix.
Instead of attaching and running a hose into a container to bleed the brakes, I just use a rag and listen to the sound the bleeder makes as you open it up to let the air out. Air bubbles make noise and feel different than straight fluid.
Don’t use any type of silicone sealant on free wheel hubs or full float axle shaft gaskets during reassembly. Cone washers help apply a force between the hub and axle and silicone can hinder this by supplying a minute amount of lubricant to the joint possibly contributing to a stud failure. I have been installing the gaskets dry for a couple of years now and have never had one leak. And when replacing the cone washers on a front hub or a full float axle, put a little anti seize on them to make them easier to remove the next time around.
Don’t know how many times I have fought with a tranny on my bench. They always want to tip over. Then I tripped over the bolts that hold the tranny to the bell housing and a lightbulb went off. The bolts are just long enough to serve as feet, no more tipping (at least with the t-case off)
