kingpin Q's

alright, i fought of the whole death wobble thing for a little while by tightening the bearing caps, but it came back today!! there's just nothing like pulling up to a red ligth with wheels hopping all over the place and the soccer moms gasping... you guys should try it some time. i read back through steve's write up on the disc swap,and evidently i read over the line where it was said to be a stupid idea not to do these while i had everything apart.

putting that aside, i was okay with doing the job until i realized that there were 4 of these things and not 2 like i was thinking. so, keeping in mind that i'm a college student whats required to properly do the job?? bearings and shims are a definate, but would i need new cups and caps? i've never looked into one of these things, my eyes are getting blurry around this time of finals week so the exploded diagram looked like a blur, and i don't want to get the pleasure of doing the job again because i reused an old part.

also, while i've got to take the knuckle off, is the stud conversion shadetree friendly or does that need to be taken to a machine shop to bedone properly?

any help on what should be done would be appreciated.

 

Buy the bearings and cups along with a shim pack. Thoroughly check the wheel bearings at this time as well, you may want to replace those too. You will need the knuckle seal kit, wheel seals (good time to replace these) and if you don't already have one, get the 2 1/16" hub socket and a fish scale to preload the bearings. That should be it...

 

already got rid of the hammer/screwdriver evidence and put new wheel bearings in there. i was going to replace the knuckle sels as well, but what do you mean by wheel seal?? i'm looking at this page:

http://www.jeepdoc.com/catalog/partspix/dana2527.gif

so if you could tell me what number it is we could probably save the hassle of trying to explain it to me throught descriptions... i'm having a whole bunch of trouble mentally picturing things right now.

 

If it's the seal I'm thinking of, it's not in that diagram. I think speedbuggy is referring the the spindle grease seals. You likely changed them when you did the wheel bearings. They are the seals that are pressed (or hammered) into the backside of the spindle to keep the wheel bearing grease where it belongs.
Knuckle studs would be a good idea IMO, IF you have access to a drill press. It's not hard to do, but it does take some time to do properly.

 

If you want the knuckle stud conversion and don't want to do it yourself, send them to me, I did the 1 on Hippos Jeep and the 1 on Sparky's old truck before I shipped him the knuckles he bought from me. It is very easy but you do need a counterbore to flatten out the boss's inside the knuckle for the studs to seat flat against. I can do them on my milling machine.

 

alright, parts ordered... i was looking forward to driving it over the break and maybe taking it to tellico, but it looks like the jeep has spoken once again.