Axle pt 17

My home made axle nut wrench works quite well. The hub came off easily and the bearings seem to be in excellent condition (I still need to de-grease them). The inner axle nut has damage that matched the outer one. These hubs were obviously serviced at some point and the person doing so used a chisel instead of the specialty socket. Since I snapped the bleeder valve off of the passenger brake caliper I purchased a new pair. The new calipers are slightly different than the OEM ones, they come with these rubber and metal blocks and no instructions... 

Humvee post #6

It took me 5 years of looking and more money than I would like to have spent, but I finally have a complete set of rocker panels for the Humvee.

YouTube

Myself and Thomas are always wrenching on our diesels.
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Axle pt 16

Axle pt 15

I got one of the manual hubs off but I was not able to get the inner axle nut out. I have a specialty axle nut socket for a GM 14 bolt that I modified to fit a dodge Dana 60 front axle but it is not deep enough to reach the inner nut on the ford axle. Judging be the damage on the outer axle nut, someone has had this hub apart in the past. 

Axle pt 14

 Here are a couple more pictures of the passenger side spring mount. I also manged to take off one of the brake calipers as well as snap off the bleeder valve.

 

U joints

 Thomas dropped by the other day and was concerned because Old Blue was acting up. There was a loud bang when he would shift in to drive from park.
I figured it was a bad U-joint. One peak under the truck and my hypothesis was confirmed. We picked up a couple new U-joints and after a fair amount of "persuading" with a 10lb hand sledge and punch we got the old ones out. The new ones pressed in relatively easily and the whole job only took a hour and a half.