I got the rest of my rebuild parts from 4wd factory and the brass upper bushings from poly performance. I got my knuckles off today, if you're removing rebuilds kingpins make sure you have something with a lot of umph behind it. I had my breaker bar on it with a cheater. I stopped before I broke anything. And my $800 snap on impact wouldn't budge it. Had to remove the muffler from the exhaust for the gun to have enough nuts to remove the upper kingpins. the lower kingpins didn't come out without a fight either. Gonna order my new axle shafts and work on moving the steering box while I wait for them to be shipped.


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K, that sound pretty hardcore, but I have no clue what it means?

Either you have an exhaust-driven impact or you're exhaust is masking the report from a firearm designed to remove kingpins to avoid possible police attention.

 

Lol nah man, the impact "gun" was supplied with a wad of fiberous material that you wadded in the exhaust port of the wrench to quiet it down. They said it'd take a little bit of torque from the impact but nothing "noticeable" I tell ya what... It's pretty freaking loud now, who would have thought it'd quiet it down that much but apparently it was enough to make the difference.


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been doing some reading, King pins are to be installed to 600 ft lb torque. from what i could see there wasnt any threadlocker on the threads but i've ran across one site that recommended a high stength thread locker. ordered a set of ten/factory chromoly axle shafts earlier today... i need to quit finding stuff that needs replaced and soon

 

Six foot long cheater bar ought to do it.

At that level, I doubt thread locker makes any difference. You saw how hard they were to come out. That's not a fitting prone to the type of vibration or torque-induced failure thread locker is designed to help prevent.

 

What snap-on impact you use?

 

I don't know for sure, been a while since I've looked at the specs, magnesium housing I believe. I'll pop out to the truck and look real quick


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I lied, $422 quoted on the web site. MG725. Bought it in a bundle didn't know exact price. It's 810 ft lb recommended working torque and 1,190 ft lb break away torque. Should have handled it with ease, atleast that's what I thought . Then again I was using the air n arc on the company truck, about 6-10 hits the compressor would cut in to build air , if it didn't get it in the first few hits it wasn't going to do the trick


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Getting rid of the swivel probably would have helped with the lack of ***.


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Could be the pic but I think you could use a larger chuck. Looks like you have 1/4" chucks... 3/8" is what that gun needs.

That little baby wont flow the air. I used to sell ALOT of large quick connects and chucks after showing the techs how much better there tools ran with them.

Just like you truck, Don't matter how bad *** the compressor (turbo) or gun (engine) is, if the hose and chuck (tubing) is too small it wont breath!

 

Lol yeah, we hooked a 1/2" air line to our 3/4 in impact. Livened the old thing up. Everything I've ever used was 1/4 so that's what I stuck with for interchangeability.


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