Quote Originally Posted by BigSwede View Post
Why, you live in friggin' South Carolina for chrissakes...
We are under a Winter Weather Advisory today, 3-4 inches of snow tonight and hopefully not much freezing rain before the snow.

This time last year I spent 3 or 4 days hanging christmas lights, I was wearing coat, gloves, hat, freezing my *** off. Definitely too warm for this time of year.
Anyway why would you clean all the grease out of your CV joints? Are you just trying to make work for yourself?
I cleaned the grease out since I had all torn boots, and I wheeled with em that way at uwharrie. I am sure there was dirt and whatnot. The solvent based parts cleaner is free to use on base Grease is cheap, CVs are not.

Quote Originally Posted by tom4bren View Post
You didn't show a pic of the inside of the brackets. Did you grind all of the weld lines flat in there? The axle flange needs to seat flat against the bracket.
I did grind all the welds flat on the inside face. Hopefully its actually flat and gets a good seal. Isn't the axle seal the actual fluid sealing surface? Maybe I will put some RTV along the seating surface as well just in case the axle seal leaks.

I just borrowed Halo Reach from a friend at work,its very hard to decide to work on the truck right now...