2nd Gen Non-Engine/Transmission STUPID, STUPID, STUPID! (that's me)

[AMink]

So I get through putting new ujoint and ball joints on the passenger side. Not too hard, but took quite a while. Would have been easier with all the right tools! Anyway, get it all back together and pull it into the culdesac to see if it's OK. Some bad noises, didn't even get it back to the garage. I get out and the passenger tire looks like a baja truck, bottom out, top in. Oh shii. . ucks. Thought about it for awhile, then BING! One must put the castle nut back on the spindle for things to function even close to properly. Tomorrow, I'll be putting in new bearings.

 

[MMeier]

OOPSIE!! Seriously, that bites the big one!

 

[AMink]

I think I'm gonna puke! I looked at NAPAonline and they don't list just the bearing. You have to get the whole freakin' thing! They're just like bearing on a trailer axle except bigger! I am/was supposed to pull the trailer tomorrow. Me thinks my wife will be less than happy!

 

[Ol'TrailDog]

Though I've never managed this particular hat trick... . you won't see me casting any stupid stones. :-laf

 

[AMink]

I was thinking of being the inaugural "what dumb things have you done to your truck" thread, though theres probably one around here somewhere.

 

[cyborg]

Check for a number on the bearing cage and cross it that way to BCA or Timken.

 

[AMink]

Thanks Cyborg. I can read the number on the inner bearing, but not the outer. That's the one that grenaded. Also, when it went, it buggered up the inside of the hub, just a little. I'd be worried about the new bearing hanging up on the burrs. Live and learn. I'd say this was a priceless experience, but it cost too much! For things like this, there's Mastercard!

 

[Grizzly]

Don't beat yourself up AMink, we all do stupid stuff. It's just that most of us won't admit it and you did, so that makes you the better person.

 

[DieselMinded]

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LOL Just Kiddin'



Major Bummer AMink , Good Luck Getting it all back together right .



You'll laugh about it next week. :>



DM

 

[SDrake]

Just so I don't do a stupid and assume I know what a castle nut is, What is the castle nut? I assume it is the big nut on the outside of the hub that you can access simply taking off the hub cap. It is 1-11/16' or some such large size??????????? I am doing u-joints shortly. Don't need to make this mistake. Your pain my gain, I hope.

 

[AMink]

It is 1-11/16' or some such large size

That's the one. When it gets mixed up in the pile with the olds nuts from the ball joints, it's easy to miss. :-laf I got it all back together and it seems ok. I'm going to drive it around a little here shortly. Now I know how to do the bearings too! $189 at NAPA

 

[DKarvwnaris]

That's the one. When it gets mixed up in the pile with the olds nuts from the ball joints, it's easy to miss. :-laf I got it all back together and it seems ok. I'm going to drive it around a little here shortly. Now I know how to do the bearings too! $189 at NAPA

I just priced them out at NAPA, they wanted $258. 00 locally. Gotta love the Yellow caps tiered and regional price codes. While I usually use Napa for all my customers stuff since they deliver to my place, I am quickly loosing faith in their supposed shop rate on parts. Jobber was $230 ish.

I checked with a local parts store who carries Timken on a referral by another TDR member. They were under $180. 00 (walk-in price) through them. Go figure that one. So much for NAPA for my own parts, it might be the sales guy who doesn't care for my Yankee accent. Gotta love this town. (montgomery, AL)



I remember a fellow doing this with a Jeep Wrangler with the same hub design, he was in the woods and had to have it dragged out with two other jeeps with a deer sled under the front corner. You got off easy so close to home. The hub probably needed replacement soon anyways. Glad you weren't driving away when it happened or in traffic.

 

[Dave M]

I was thinking of being the inaugural "what dumb things have you done to your truck" thread, though theres probably one around here somewhere.

Ok, so. . you talking to me? I stopped at min-mart early one morning to get gas and while I'm filling it up I go in to get a badly needed coffee after spending weeks working on re-plumbing my house. I jump in the truck and start to pull forward and to my right I see a guy start to cross and throw his hands to his face with a shocked look and then start to laugh. So I stop cause I notice him stare behind me. I check out the drivers side mirror to see what he's looking at and I see a green hose dragging behind my truck still hooked in the gas tank.



I was informed by the attendant it happens on gas nozzles but I am now the first to rip out a diesel nozzle. GEEEZ..... somedays it don't pay to get out of bed. Boy did I feel stupid.

 

[R-N-R]

[/I]I check out the drivers side mirror to see what he's looking at and I see a green hose dragging behind my truck still hooked in the gas tank.

Glad I am not the only to have done this! :-laf

 

[bmoeller]

Just so I don't do a stupid and assume I know what a castle nut is, What is the castle nut?

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[SDrake]

Somehow I think I already knew what a castle nut was but that picture plastered it into my brain forever. but now give me a little break . The mote is not visible and so I never made it to the castle :-laf .

 

[TRCM]

Actually, the slang term is castle nut.



The real term is castellated nut. (gotta watch how ya say that... might get taken the wrong way)