Dillithium Posted March 17, 2015 Posted March 17, 2015 I just installed WJ lower control arms, am going to do the uppers soon. The lowers have fixed my front pinion angle, meaning I can now reinstall my front driveshaft. However, after removing and reinstalling the front drive shaft at least 5 or so times, I'm really fed up with the transfercase portion of this install. There HAS to be a trick to make this easier, I cannot get a ratchet, a ratcheting wrench or anything usefull in there to make those four bolts easier. All I can do is about 1/4 turn at a time, for four bolts that are all about 4'' long. Is there a tool for this I don't know of? Or a special kind of set up? I've considered dropping the Tcase for it, I kid you not...
mjben Posted March 17, 2015 Posted March 17, 2015 I'm guessing somewhere along the lines, someone replaced those 4 bolts with standard hardware. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe they should have a smaller diameter head from the factory. Save from the occasional odd-ball replaced bolt, I've always been able to get at them pretty easily with an 8mm ratcheting wrench... FWIW...
Pete M Posted March 18, 2015 Posted March 18, 2015 my 8mm ratcheting wrench fits in there great. :dunno: still kinda a pain though.
Blue XJ Posted March 18, 2015 Posted March 18, 2015 I still use the stock bolts, but I took a tap and cleaned up the threads in the driveshaft. I can screw the bolts all the way in by hand now and just need the wrench to torque them.
Dillithium Posted March 18, 2015 Author Posted March 18, 2015 Top bolt is an 8mm head that fits into my front diff, the bottom one threads into my driveshaft from my transfercase yoke. The bottom bolt is too big, isn't it?
SW86 Posted March 18, 2015 Posted March 18, 2015 No it's correct. At some point they changed the bolts over to a smaller head for easier removal/install. I did as stated above. Clean the d/s threads and they go in by hand until you need to torque them. So either get the newer bolts, clean the threads or continue getting angry because that's how it's going to be lol
Blue XJ Posted March 22, 2015 Posted March 22, 2015 If you clean them up, you just need a 1/2" wrench for the final torque, makes it pretty easy.
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