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She's about to hook up the trailer for the first time for Georgia to go to a riding lesson. 

With 450 ft# of torque, I suspect she will be able to accelerate any time she wants to as well.

It runs 2100 rpm at 70 miles per hour.  Should get 8 to 10 in town and previous owner said he got about 12 to 13 on the highway pulling a large boat.

My daughter, Bruce's wife, Georgia's mother, recently had her suburban totaled.  She picked up her replacement today.  Ernest will be drooling...

2002 3/4 ton, 4x4 GMC suburban (Yukon XL) with a 8.1 L engine, Allison tranny and 373 gears with a rear locker.

She should not have problem getting the horse to the rodeos but she may have a problem finding enough gasoline...

Turned out to be an expansion plug (rubber), installed in the last hole on the driver side, water ran down the pan and looked like it was coming from the rear.  We will probably put another rubber plug in it and hope it lasts until we do an overhaul next summer.

Only was to put a real plug in it is to pull both manifolds.

That's all the cars that we have on the road.  I still have a Grand Cherokee parts car, the red Cherokee, the yeller truck and parts of a VW.  And then there's the 57....

The parts car will leave soon, just need a few more parts.

The yeller truck will leave soon, with the front clip going on the red cherokee.

The VW will go with the parts car.

I do too, but all the other cars in my family need work first.  Rear freeze plug on the grand daughter's Grand Cherokee, oil leak on the Tahoe, transmission on son-in-laws Dodge, Tracy's car totaled and will have to set up brake controller on the next one, lift kit ordered for my Jeep...

Wow, that's all the cars we have!

While we were at a playoff game the grand daughter's Grand Cherokee developed a antifreeze leak at a rear freeze plug.  I just loaned out the transmission jack to Nick.  I guess it might really be his, can't remember...

I won't be doing much on this till I get a title.  I will however try to patch the holes in the roof.  I found that the center section of the roof to the VW, turned sideways, made a good match to the area with the holes.  I will soon be grafting the VW sheet metal into the center of the cab roof.

Otherwise, exploring the world of "Bonded Titles".

Way things are looking now, I will most likely not be able to make it.  I'm gone to Salt Lake City for a week beginning on Halloween and that will put me so far behind I just can't see having the ability to be ready or the time to spend away from home and all.

Is this what the spacer was for?  And, did it work?

I'm still trying to identify the rear axle.  It has the appearances of an Eaton and I have found some pics of an Eaton HO52 and HO72 but the bolt pattern is different and the fill plug is located on the other side of the axle.  There are some references that some cheby parts can be used, including the carrier, axles and hubs but I'm still investigating that arrangement.

If I can get hubs and axle shafts working, it will go to disc brakes and that's fairly straight forward.  The original hub will have to be replaced because of the diameter and bolt pattern but the axle shafts wont work in a newer hub so it may take some additional swapping.

Quote from: SixGun on October 17, 2015, 07:43:16 PM
Whoa man is that a leaf pack

yeah, I think it will have to go, but i still want to be able to pull a horse trailer with a couple of big horses.

Research shows that the stamp probably should be "Formate", with formate gears having straight cuts on the ring gear. The ring gear teeth are good but the spider gears are straight cut too.  I can't see all of them so it could be there.  The right side axle binds some when you spin the wheel.  Really makes it suspect.  the axle shafts have holes tapped for "pulling screws".  One of the holes on the right axle shaft has a bolt broken off in it.  Could be a problem.  Find out tomorrow.

I removed the gas tank, the bed and running boards and the driveshafts.  The driveshafts both had the slip joints completely collapsed.  Both axles are out of position to the center.  The pic of the fender shows the wheel too far forward and the next pic shows the springs shifted on the rear axle. 

Finally, I removed the rear cover on the differential and find that it might or might not have a removable third member.  There are some casting numbers on the front part of the case.  I don't have them handy now but I have been unable to find anything similar to them on any identification web sites.  By the way, it has twelve studs on the back (7/16" fine threads and one 3/8" course thread bolt at the bottom that serves as a drain plug).  The fill plug is on the front case.

This number is stamped on the ring gear:  ORMATE 1500552 4 11 MS3103P8956

I assume that means the axle has 411 gears.  Standard is said to be 410 in the shop manual.

In cleaning out the bottom of the case I found a couple pieces of metal.  One piece looks like part of one spline.  The other looks like part of a 1/4" bolt or a pin.  That means, to me, that I will need to pull the axle shafts and the front case to see if there is anything that should be replaced or repaired.

I still don't know what the axle is.  Anyone got any other suggestions?

Well Richard, the good stuff I did on the yellow truck will find a home.  Engine and transmission in the 57, front end in the 88 XJ, cameras and video stuff in something...