Re: "Metalwork" by othewras

On 10/5/2024 12:24 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:

On 10/4/2024 3:15 PM, Snag wrote:

   I dropped the axle from my '86 GMC pickup off at the shop yesterday . It's going in for "major surgery" ... The stock 2.73:1/standard differential gear set is being replaced with a set of 3.42's and a posi locker . I have apparently ventured a bit farther into the "high performance" realm than I meant to . Since I've got it tuned a bit better I've been having problems starting from a dead stop without the truck making screeching noises . I'm hoping the new stuff will improve that situation ...
   I'm also hoping the gas mileage improves . The motor build was optimized for 3.42 gears , I should be in a more efficient RPM band with the new gears . Which is also in the torque band , so my trans should have to shift gears less often .
   And as my neighbor told his wife when she asked what all this was for "better burnouts!" .

  How do you find "other people" you trust to do work for you.  I've had absolute shit luck with that.  It's the main reason I do so many different things myself.

   Actually it's very rare for me to hire work out and I can count on one hand the ones I trust  . I hired someone local to swap the motor in my 4Runner because it was just more work than I wanted to do out in the yard . I've got the axle in the shop because Patrick has done several and is equipped to do that . I have the tools but not the experience . In both cases the work was done by someone I know and trust . The shop that did my motor is my neighbor's brother in law and I've had him do other work - the transmission for my truck for one . The guy re-gearing my  axle used to live across the road from me , I've seen and admired his work - 5.0 Ford V8's that spin 12,000 RPM and live to tell it for instance .
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