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Finally got around to completing the rear cargo door tonight: Used a sheet of 6061 aluminum from online metals. Cut it to size using the factory panel as a template Sprayed it with bed liner Trimmed it in with some trim off of Amazon Added a fire extinguisher mount Added a paper towel...

I would take 2 of them and pick up in SF if you still have 2 available. Thanks!

Still available?

I say all of this assuming you haven’t driven California a bunch - apologies if that’s flawed: Tahoe is beautiful and you shouldn’t miss it. But You cannot skip 395 and the eastern Sierras while in California. You’d be kicking yourself. At least get to the Alabama Hills and around the...

Did the same over the weekend with the same part. Leak gone. Thanks.

Would love to know how far down you put the new one. I just replaced the front output bearing on mine to eliminate vibration, put a new seal in with it, and now I have a leak (didn’t before). I ordered another seal and will be doing it over again this weekend. I pushed it all the way down to the...

Got it out on trail and worked out some of the lactic acid. Next up: rear cargo storage build, cargo door drop-down stove setup. N.B. I also need to acquire or make a CDL shifter. Laying on the ground to lock the diff is getting old.

Ended up replacing the bearing in the front output housing of the T-Case this weekend (a total bitch of a job with my hacked together tools), but the vibration is totally gone now. Thank you @Tinker !

What sliders did you go with? Looking at some for my D2 as we speak (rockware, rocky road and tactical rovers)...

In my favorite experience with this truck so far, I found a driveshaft specialist that runs a shop out of his garage. Nights only. In San Francisco. That’s not normal around here. And it was awesome. Got my driveshaft dialed in and about 90% of my vibration is gone. I think at some point I’ll...

Thank you. I’ll do the driveshaft second opinion when I get back in town and hope that’s the issue. If not, might be time to go through the painful process of taking that housing off. Will report back, ideally with some good news. Good luck with Nanuuq!

No leakage from either. I changed the front diff fluid recently and haven’t had any leaks. I also put a 2004 front output housing on a few months back (to get the CDL) and drained and filled the transfer case as part of that. No leaks from that new seal. Haven’t had a chance to get the front...

The vibration debugging continues! I sent the front drive shaft back to Tom Woods. Drove around without it for a week or so and had no vibrations. They say there was some play in the CV ball and some damage on the trunions of the joints in the CV. They changed our the CV socket flange, CV...

Back to the fountain of knowledge: Given I have a 2” lift (that appears to be giving a generous 2”), is there any chance I’d need caster corrected radius arms to adjust the pinion angle to eliminate drive shaft vibration? Second, are the corrected radius arms recommended with a 2” lift in general?

Do you use the HD ones?

You might try Bill over at GReat basin rovers in Utah. Spoke to him today and he seems like a great guy that knows his stuff cold. I’m actually now considering seeing if can return the Tom woods one or sell it on eBay instead of balancing it and get one of the GBR ones.

@Tinker - pulled the Tom woods tonight and put the stock one back on (had previously been upgraded to have serviceable u-joints before I got the truck). Vibration gone. Spoke to the guys at Tom woods today and they’ll ship it back and rebalance it at no charge. Good service. Wish it was...

I think I will just take it to a shop - thanks man.

I removed it and drove with just the rear shaft and it was fine, which led me to believe it was definitely the front shaft. Do need to upgrade to HD steering at some point, however.

Got the front output housing with the CDL on and finally got it out into the woods today. Ton of fun to test out all the mods and upgrades. It’s a tank and I love it. One problem however that makes the highway driving to get places suck: vibration from my new HD Tom woods drive shaft...