Help Installing c-beam
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Burning Brakes
Joined: Jan 2005
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From: spring branch texas
Help Installing c-beam
Can anyone give me some help as to the easiest way to get the c-beam back in a 85 4+3. I guess I'm better at taking things apart than putting them back together.
Team Owner
Joined: May 2002
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From: San Diego , CA Double Yellow DirtBags 1985..Z51..6-speed
Stick driveshaft in, let ebrake cable hold end up. Slip cbeam onto rear diff first... keeping cbeam against tunnel side. Push back as far as possible with trans jacked up.
Pry trans over to driversside and get Lou Ferrigno to push C-beam up into place.
It gets worse on the ZF6. I ground off part of my Cbeam to make it reasonable.
Pry trans over to driversside and get Lou Ferrigno to push C-beam up into place.
It gets worse on the ZF6. I ground off part of my Cbeam to make it reasonable.
Instructor
Joined: Feb 2005
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From: Western Washington State
Cruise-In VII Veteran
Get a BIG phillips head screwdriver. Put it in the bolt holes and use it to leverage the C-beam into position. That's the only way I was able to have the holes in the beam to line up with the holes in the transmission and rear end.
