What doe the axle look like? Is the race area that the bearing sits on nice and smooth? If it's not, did you get repair bearings that are wider and span the area that is worn?

 

It was fine after some cleaning.

 

nice job on the rear end rebuild,i know ur pain with that broken bolt,my 70 chevelle did that once and the shaft came out and got chewed in 3 pieces and ruined every gear in the rear end had to rebuild the whole thing.

 

Ouch... Sounds like a nightmare for sure.
I picked up a new transmission output shaft seal and an axle shaft seal aswell. There both leaking a little. How hard are they to replace? Just drop the drive shaft and U joints, right?

 

yeah if u can get the seal out easily,might have to pull the tail housing wich is pretty easy,i think theres also a bushing inside there that might be causing the leak too.

 

Oh, ok. I'm off to google to do some more research.
*Makes the wooshing sound as he runs off like a mad-man*

 

LOL Don't you just love it when a project requires you to empty your tool box.Mostly to fix three small things in order to fix the one thing you thought you were working on.

 

You can pop the old seal out with a screwdriver and hammer. Punch through the metal face and pry out.
If you plan on changing the rear pinion seal too, give a shout out. There's a right and wrong way to taking it apart.

 

Oh?
I had no idea. 0_o
Whats the right way?

 

Make a reference mark to the pinion nut and the yoke, either with a permanent marker or a center punch. Count the number of threads that are exposed at any given spot on the pinion shaft, but make a punch mark on the end of the shaft off to that side which you counted (you'll want that for later). Then you can take the nut, washer, and yoke off. When you put it back together, leave the same number of exposed threads as you had (on the marked side of the shaft), while getting the nut to yoke reference marks lined back up. If you don't do that, and just blindly crank the pinion nut on, you could be altering the pinion gear depth to the ring gear, and cause premature wear.