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Two issues I still have:
1. Emergency brakes. Not enough travel to engage them. Everything is new. Either the levers I got don't have the proper throw or the new cables are somehow wrong. Anyone have stock ebrake levers laying around they'd want to sell?
2. Driveshaft is wayyyyyy out of round. So, years ago when I was driving the truck daily, I noticed it had a nasty vibration at 65+ MPH. Ujoints were good, nothing was loose, so I just let it be. Most of my driving was done under 65 anyway.
Well as I was running the rebuild for the first time while it was still on jackstands, I could watch the driveshaft visibly wobble. It's way out. I could even feel it.
So, either a junkyard driveshaft (maybe go one piece aluminum?) or take this one to a driveline shop and have them put a new tube on it. A new driveshaft is 300.00, so that ain't happening.
Last edited on Sat Feb 23rd, 2019 07:09 pm by jsoluna