Pin hits ring gear
08-02-2016, 01:33 PM
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Burning Brakes
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Pin hits ring gear
TRYING to get the rear apart but the pin hits the ring gear. All I want to do is replace the the seals. 
Done other rears and never had this situation.
Done other rears and never had this situation.
08-02-2016, 08:19 PM
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You don't need to remove the pin to remove the yokes, you just need some long nosed snap ring pliers to remove the snap ring from the yoke, then slide it out the side.
note....Just remove "c" clips, yokes come out .....if the ends are not mushroomed
08-04-2016, 05:55 PM
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HE!!! sometime in the early 90's my '85 Dodge van with posi rear, 3/4 ton and the damn 'pin' controlling the spider gears, the locating bolt came out, and it flipped into the pinion gear at some 30 mph, which of course locked it up but good, and it VERY narrowly avoided an accident, never forget that lady behind me cussing my brake lights as not working, and me just barely keeping the skidding *** end in line on the road.....BCH distances in avoidance just driving home from a day of work.....lucky I not had any much scheduled for a while....home remodeling contractor here.....I popped that silly cover and just winced.....WAR ZONE......put another rear in it from a buddy's tow car, a '78 Chrysler 440 engine tow car he was SCCA racing....you just gotta know, that stupid old van that has had the socks run off it since it was born is STILL ON THE ROAD!!!!!! 
oh, forgot to say, I put it in reverse and drove about 5 miles home at 5 mph or less, traffic was SO pleased, more horns than a symphony orchestra, the shaft had shattered so 1/2 was laid in the bottom of the case, one of the spider gears was barely hanging in there and the other was happy as a clam.....
oh, forgot to say, I put it in reverse and drove about 5 miles home at 5 mph or less, traffic was SO pleased, more horns than a symphony orchestra, the shaft had shattered so 1/2 was laid in the bottom of the case, one of the spider gears was barely hanging in there and the other was happy as a clam.....
Last edited by mrvette; 08-04-2016 at 05:58 PM.