03 Replacing Ball and Axle joints!
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03 Replacing Ball and Axle joints!
I have my passenger side tore apart on my 03 and I cannot remove the hub assembly. Does the entire axle shaft have to come out on these AAM's or what. I have every bolt out of this thing and it just wont budge. Do I need to pull the diff cover and remove some sort of retainer or what? Thanks
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You need to push it out form the backside. Put the four bolys back in almost all the way then using a extension between boly abd axle housing use power steering to press bolts pushing bearing assemnly out do one bolt at a time rotating around and backing the bolts out a little more and doing it again till you can remove
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Take a look at this thread helped me get mine apart to do axle ujoints scroll down to papaduck writeup
https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...ve+hub+bearing
https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...ve+hub+bearing
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What options do I have for manual locking hubs to put in this big piece of $h!t. I am begining to hate this truck! Is there a servicable bearing for these things that doesn't rust solid like these?
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I used alot of pb blaster and had to really crank on it. As far as free spin hubs there is dynatrac ems and a third one I saw the other day cant remember the name maybe someone else will chime in. i would go for one with the studs already pressed into the hubs.
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