I finished up today. I got the axle nuts tightened down using that handy dandy axle nut tool and a breaker bar. In order to get the 253 foot lbs. needed to be correct, I figured that since I weigh about 210 lbs. (I do, I really do) if I stood on the breaker bar about 12 inches away from the center of the nut, that would be about 210 foot lbs. So, that left about 43 foot lbs. to go.
According to my calculations, that would be about 17.5 foot lbs. per inch divided into the remaining 43 foot lbs. = 2.4571428 inches added onto the 12 inches to get 253 foot lbs. I guess I could have gotten a 253 foot breaker bar and stood on the end of it, but I couldn't find one. Anyay, when I got it to where I thought it should be, I whacked it a few more times to line up the hole in the axle nut for the cotter pin, and there ya go, all done.
On the test drive, after the ticking from the hydraulic lifter that ticks until the oil pressure is built up ended, I heard something new...nothing! Oscar is at the quietest that I have ever heard him. In the exhaust, in the front bearings, in the CV joints, and now in the rear bearings. The roar is gone, the creak from the rear end is gone, virtual silence.
Only thing is though, I now hear a "spring" creak in the front end. What's next?
