I had to use heat (propane) and a huge pipe wrench on the very base of the cone. Anything 7/8" hex I tried I destroyed... I did not have a 7/8" impact allen socket available.

I have good luck with propane or mapp... I'd rather be persistent with lesser heat sources vs the potential to overdo it with acetylene.

EDIT: The old cones I extracted polished up fine with emery cloth. I would use them again. In hindsight, it was wasted effort to remove them.

 

I couldn't get my cones to move even with heat, a 3/4 breaker bar and a 10' pipe....had to use a zip cut and cut all the way around the cone about 1/8" up from the mating surface. Once I did that I almost spun them out by hand.....just time consuming.

 

I`ll bet that if you hold the cones by the threaded end and turn it slowly at eye level, there will be an uneven wear pattern on the taper of the cone. they always come out smooth, but the un -even wear on the cone is what contributes to the death-wobble. look at the not tapered part of the cone that contacts the axle flange. that shoulder will not be the same thickness all the way around, like a new one will be. every axle I`ve rebuilt (over 20)with any where near 100,000 miles has warn out cones. but you may have the exception to my observation.

 

I tryed heating minge with the torch and had the same results. I thing welding on it concentrated the heat to mostly the cone.

 

I'd almost forgotten what color it was. It's white but it looked like California smog grey.

I have another intermittent problem now. Sometimes when I turn the key on it's dead. No lights on the dash at all. No start, no nothing. If I wiggle the wires under the hood around the fusible links I can get it to go. Once it starts it's fine.

Any ideas?

 

Wow, I wished you would have chimed in on my thread on Adjusting caster camber angle, as that is the one thing I did not replace. well the moog K992 parts should be here today and before I install them I will check those pesky little cones a little closer

 

Maybe I wasn't quite as elegant, but I said this in post #7 of your thread:

"Those pins may have looked good..."...Mark

 

You are absolutely right Mark, but I did not understand what I was looking for other than a smooth surface, his explanation of holding them up and looking at the shoulder of the cone finally sank through my thick skull

 

I had to drive the truck to my Grand Nephew's graduation today and when we went to leave the truck was stone dead. I borrowed a trouble light and started wiggling connections. The big cable from the battery that goes to the Duck Foot has a big plug connector in it. I wiggled that and it came to life. We got home OK so I get to fix that tomorrow.

Edwin

 

I installed my new HVLP lift pump from THD yesterday, it went on pretty easy as I used M8x1.25 x50 studs per Jim Lanes suggestion, on my application I could have probably used shorter ones as my truck always seems to stop with the cam lobe at the furthest point away from the rod. I used a heat gun on the insulation (word of caution here, there are wires running near the top of the tappet cover so watch them very close so you don't have trouble from brittle wires down the line) and a sharp knife.
The truck fired right up, ran a little on the high side of 15# at idle. The test drive shows 15# at steady throttle and my tune will only pull it down to 11# at wot and when you let off the throttle it will go to 17# for a few seconds then back to 15#.
My personal impressions, it's a little spendy to buy the Kit but getting the parts one piece at a time and playing with spring pressures and what not it was just a better value for me. Peace of mind knowing that I have plenty of fuel to cool the IP, and the fact that my butt-dyno says it's more responsive (maybe that's because my wallet is thinner) all put a smile on my face.

 

Like the title says I changed my mind. This is the remnant of hurricane Bud. The sun lit up Alcatraz Island with like a single beam of light, so I snapped this shot. Don't grieve for me ...Mark

 

I keep hoping for skys like that on a Sunday. want to take some black& white images in old parts of town.

 

Do you use film still? I, for one, really like B&W photos, especially when taken of interesting people. I am no photographer, but I play one on tv...Mark

 

Can you even still BUY film?

 

Yup, but there aren't too many fotomats left in the parking lots. There are professional photographers that will only use film. Eric Clapton once said that digital music like MP3's are like seeing the grand Canyon through a screen door. That is sort of what anti digital photographers are saying...Mark Edit: Fujifilm still sells film:

http://www.fujifilm.com/products/film_camera/ ...