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Eric Wrench Motors

Жыл бұрын

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@NotFarmerFlats Жыл бұрын

I miss doing mobile medium and heavy-duty work like this. Bring back memories.

@NotFarmerFlats Жыл бұрын

Brother is doing this kind of work and doesn't know the word "splines". Proves you don't have to be very knowledgeable to be good at what you do. Nice work my friend.

@stephenking9789 Жыл бұрын

lmao reminds me of the time a couple goofballs at work replaced the driveshaft on a work truck an same day 2hrs away from shop, the transmission "went out" after tryin to take off with a loaded trailer. dudes used a sledge to get the splines to slide into the tranny... luckily the driveshaft was all the was dmg'd xD

@ChengSAE Жыл бұрын

I knew someone was going to correct him…

@NotFarmerFlats Жыл бұрын

@@EricWrenchMotors a Surefire way to boost engagement and get lots of comments.

@yyfreak1637 Жыл бұрын

Guy did it with one hand in 2 seconds what would have taken other mechanics 20 minutes to figure out

@jamestyndall529 Жыл бұрын

When I heard that I was like what has to line up with what

@jd-uo8hc Жыл бұрын

Little known detail. Dry gaskets or paper gaskets rely on oil to create a seal. The material absorbs the oils and expands. Under the immense clamping force from the two bare metal surfaces when the gasket material attempts to expand and cannot creating a seal. Dry gaskets don't seal, wet ones do.

@westtexas501 Жыл бұрын

my type of mechanic, CLEAN WORK! 👌

@nickbarrett571 Жыл бұрын

Pretty looking hub. "Right stuff" will also do in a pinch. Not alot of pressure inside of an axle.

@donaldhanson2640 Жыл бұрын

Omg🤯 you sir are amazing.. my life now is complete

@sidserv1978 Жыл бұрын

About 9 months ago I was installing an axle on a school bus. The dang splines weren't cooperating and when they did mesh my finger was in the way. Lost that fingernail. Damn that hurt!

@bobmonger6142 Жыл бұрын

I don't have any luck installing those gaskets dry... they always leak.

@garykemp6436 Жыл бұрын

how about removing the plug in the hub and putting some oil in the wheel bearings so they don't run dry to start

@TheBrowning3030 Жыл бұрын

Make sure to use open palms fingers out of pinch points to avoid unnecessary pain.

@IDK-vs1mg Жыл бұрын

Nice to see someone on this shit thing know what they are doing. I won't crap on but I have much experience and that looks like a job well done !

@twocents4912 Жыл бұрын

You make it look easy, but try it on a brand new Kenworth 680 driver front tandem. You have to spin the rotating drive shaft around until you get the groves to line up with the differential gear box. It's hard work in the sun.

@turbo1438 Жыл бұрын

Oh man I see what happened here. I just watched your other video. I see where you lost the outside bearing and the shaft nearly welded itself to your spindle. I know these things because I was an Axle Surgeon for 12 years. I have seen this a hundred times. Let me give you a nickels worth of free advice. Never, and I mean never ever ever spray brake cleaner into your hub or on your bearings. Secondly, you need to do 1 of two things after you re/install a hub. Either fill the hub with oil though that plug on the hub or park the truck on a side incline, replaced hub downhill so that the bearings get flooded with oil. Hub oil is supplied to the bearings by the rotation of the axle shaft as the truck drivers along. The hub has a sump area that remains filled with oil after this happens. However it takes a few miles for this process to start. If your bearings are cleaned with brake cleaner they will not get LUBRICATION before friction and heat will destroy your bearings, usually within 5 miles after a hub/bearing replacement. LUBRICATION IS KEY!!! OIL IS YOUR FRIEND!!! BRAKE CLEANER IS FOR BRAKES!!! DO NOT COMPLETELY DEGREASE ANY BEARING EVER WITHOUT SOAKING IN OIL BEFORE YOU INSTALL THEM!!! Sorry about the yelling or any smart ass remark I may have made. I'm just real passionate about wheel bearings! Hope this info helps you or someone else.

@EricWrenchMotors Жыл бұрын

This is my method and it works I've done all 4. I swapped out from stud Pilot to hub pilot. Prep clean sand decrease obsessively. Right Stuff on spindle and seal rings, Lucas on both bearings, torque to 300 ft lbs. Bob tail and swing multiple hard turns going 10 mph in the truck stop to flood the axle on repair side. That's it. All the seals are good. Except I didn't lube the seal itself for a couple hubs which I would do next time. I had 24.5 rims on worn out 285 low profile. I have another truck in storage and put on the 22.5 with 11r 14 ply. Been trucking on a better ride so far feels much better.

@Sak-zo1ui Жыл бұрын

I usually slightly pack the bearings with molly or lithium grease. It helps keep the bearing lubed until oil will get into the hub assemblies. Always top oil off after a swap or service.

@kfeemer Жыл бұрын

🤣 BRAKE CLEAN IS FOR BRAKES! 🤡

@Sak-zo1ui Жыл бұрын

@Peter smith i dont squirt oil in there because you are asking for more failure to seal. But it does work. I also never use rtv so there is that. I hadnt been using pro torques because i never knew about them. If you are in a shop that uses them well no shit you will know about them. But when you do everything personally you wont have info like that unless you run across it. Idk who touched you as a child but just because someone does not know doesnt make you better or them worse. They are just uninformed. Do the correct thing and teach them not put them down.

@marcushunt2486 Жыл бұрын

@@kfeemer uh oh we got tweaked Tom commenting on things he knows nothing about

@Msjskdk Жыл бұрын

Beautiful brother

@cbmech2563 Жыл бұрын

Hmm. I have been a trash truck/ heavy truck mechanic for about years and I haven't used an axle flange gasket in about 30 years since I discovered silicone sealer, and its been about that long since I had a flange leak. To me gaskets are just a leak waiting to happen.

@joel.3112 Жыл бұрын

Bro nice work👍🏻 The unfortunate part is when you put on the internet your always I mean always gonna have them people that have to correct you. I guess it makes them feel better about themselves it's something I think they didn't get as a child. Anywho I went way off topic . Thanks for your time and great video sir🤝

@judyloper422 Жыл бұрын

Rob here...I believe that the axle end shaft are called the spline..

@EricWrenchMotors Жыл бұрын

I'm not redoing the video to please the comments. It was an error that I knew when it was posted. These people thinking they are actually pointing stuff out are a whole bread of their own.

@gregjoseph5391 Жыл бұрын

Use a tractor paint for the axels to stop rust and pitting on the shaft

@darrellroeters4951 Жыл бұрын

Very clear video and narrating

@CROFTY71 Жыл бұрын

Spline spline spline spine not thread

@diviningrod2671 Жыл бұрын

thank you for your service

@JSBIRD69 Жыл бұрын

Those 'grooves' are called 'splines'.

@ronaldcallaway3139 Жыл бұрын

If I've done one I've done hundreds more to be honest on not only my favorite Freightliners but Peterbuilts old Mack Internationals other farm trucks etc with the floater rear ends are you going to put any gear oil in I normally pack some grease in bearings in hub then before putting the axle in pump as much gear oil in before putting the axle in saves time

@jonathansarley1499 Жыл бұрын

My cars exactly like that 63 Austin Healey sprite mg midgets are like this as well

@friendofvinnie Жыл бұрын

I wish that I could be doing this for a living

@namename7585 Жыл бұрын

Easy work done it would love to get back into it

@northygames1840 Жыл бұрын

good video!!

@IAMJAKETRIMBLE Жыл бұрын

“Threads”

@reedsilvesan2197 Жыл бұрын

pay attention, he's doing it right

@Credit_Fraud_Committer Жыл бұрын

i tow, and i gotta say picking up an axle with clean hands is nuts to me. today i towed a tandem for 30 minutes with the axle out, no cap but a rag shoved in the hole and a good 1/10 trucks i tow have no oil in there until it heats up, even then it’s full of metal of course. what puzzles me is that it catches once and when you push it in the rest of the way it catches again right before the studs, then it’s extremely hard to push in and down. is there a reason for that?

@chrisbeekley1887 Жыл бұрын

I don't understand why anyone would put on a gasket dry.

@franka2507 Жыл бұрын

Any reason for longer wheel studs, was the shorter one having issues 🤔😒😀

@EricWrenchMotors Жыл бұрын

They were stud pilot studs, older, more rare. It's different than Hub. Stud Pilot rims are harder to come by if you need one on the road. More work to take the wheels off.

@randomusernumber1 Жыл бұрын

Oh i just love it when my dad breaks and axle cause that means that I get to fix it , and take out the diff out to fish around and find all the chunks and all the swarf and i don't love it at all it sucks , its expensive and it ruins your day .

@AlwaysBeSmart674 Жыл бұрын

Do you mean the splines have to line up? Not the threads?

@brianhilligoss Жыл бұрын

Hope you didn’t forget the hub oil.

@EricWrenchMotors Жыл бұрын

Coat wheel bearings with Lucas, assemble, bobtail swing a few hard turns to that side in 3rd gear

@clayton9136 Жыл бұрын

Why did you change the hub? Those are lifetime parts.

@jasonmenard1073 Жыл бұрын

Where's the lights dude?

@skippypiano365 Жыл бұрын

Threads???? Don't you mean Splines???

@cdbennett2332 Жыл бұрын

I have a question. Let's say all the axels have been removed at the same time and you loose track of what ones go where. What do you do?

@EricWrenchMotors Жыл бұрын

Front drive axle, both axle shafts are different lengths. They can only work on the correct side. Rear axle might be the same, I never compared front to rear axle shafts. You mark them with white out if your worried.

@glennrecker5593 Жыл бұрын

And your bearings are dry???

@bebopzdf7378 Жыл бұрын

This video excentuates importance of hand cleaner. My boss an arsehole NVR want to buy hand cleaner that's why nothing ever work rite

@bradfader691 Жыл бұрын

splines not threads..

@PhillyRacer121 Жыл бұрын

Over handled it a little. No reason to detail it so hard but yeah, good clean work if nothing else. As others have said, dont forget to get some gear oil in that hub and bearings before you go down the road otherwise youll be back in there next weekend.

@patrickwatters7555 Жыл бұрын

Not threads, splines.

@jackmoore240 Жыл бұрын

Glovesssssssssssssssss go such a long way. They’ll get destroyed. When replacing axles or cylinders, use gloves. Natural oils will deteriorate the seal so quickly it’s not even funny

@Brythecarguy302 4 ай бұрын

Threads= spine

@-Mike-69 Жыл бұрын

That just reminded me of an asshole neighbor I had. He had a one tonne Chev with the full floater rear end. He pissed me off royally one day so I decided to get back at him. I went out late at night and took all the bolts out of both rear axle shafts. Oddly enough he couldn't get to work the next day. Never piss off your mechanic neighbor. Strange things may happen.