Ute back end rebuild

[Drew SS]

Well this might be of interest to some as I'm rebuilding my diff I thought I may as well do the whole lot so I removed the rear subframe and main frame today to strip down and send in to be powder coated with any other bits..plan is to rebush it as the bushes were knackered believe it or not and underseal it why I have a clean slate just a few pics









And the last one well what can you say looks like new brake lines are in order not leaking yet but not far from it must be the weak spot for corrosion considering the rest of underneath is nothing like this



I'll update it as I complete it

Edited by Drew SS on Sunday 23 February 19:16

[Behold81]

look forward to seeing the result. I wish I had a garage or driveway. I would love to be able to strip down my car.

[SturdyHSV]

Behold81 said:

look forward to seeing the result. I wish I had a garage or driveway. I would love to be able to strip down my car.

+1

[gsd2000]

Looks great.

I need to do my rear brake lines too

[JoyCV8]

gsd2000 said:

I need to do my rear brake lines too

I had to do mine last year after failure, it'll be a lot easier with the subframe dropped/removed.

[Drew SS]

JoyCV8 said:

I had to do mine last year after failure, it'll be a lot easier with the subframe dropped/removed.

What did you replace just the 90 degree area yeah how did you do it

[JoyCV8]

Drew SS said:

What did you replace just the 90 degree area yeah how did you do it

Mine (Ro rather than Ute) had gone near the front where the pipes enter the metal shield but were ropey in other areas so I just replaced them from the ABS pump all the way back with cupro-nickel pipe.

Enough of the original pipes were still intact after removal to use them as a pattern to make the new ones off the vehicle but as the subframe was in place when I did it I had to do the passenger side pipe in 2 sections.

[Drew SS]

Just a bit of an update got the gear back from the powder Coaters today





Diff is being rebuild with all the fruit just waiting on bushes for it to arrive then start reassembly I sourced wheel bearings from my local motor factors as they are the same as a couple of other vehicles running around

[ringram]

Are you changing gearing?
If not, why not ?

[Drew SS]

ringram said:

Are you changing gearing?
If not, why not ?

Definitely Richard I've a set of 3.9,s to go in and a new trutrac with and a complete timkin bearing kit etc

Edited by Drew SS on Friday 28th March 22:14

[KMud]

Nice one Andy, that looks loads better. Thanks again for sending the gears

[Drew SS]

Another update all is ready to go back in will get some pics I've still to get the diff rebuilt it's stripped now had a lot of trouble with the side carriers one in particular as wouldn't budge under any strength so had to weaken it with the die grinder here's what it looks like







As you can see the threads are in a pretty poor corrosive state