Yup, and my wife just called from work to agree! I am packing for a week camping and fishing in the bush. Bringing all of the listed ingredients too... :-)
Hey Peter, I am going to be at Little Merril or Whitefish for the week if you feel like doing a trail run and dropping by. Be there until Tuesday likely.
Same for anyone else that knows the area we normally bush run in.
Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT'sBilly Ray wrote:
Well, I just got a call from the dealer where I took the GC this morning, and of course they now insist that they can't just set the pinion bearing preload like they agreed to, they have to take the entire diff apart because there are "internal problems". The revised estimate is for 6.5 hours + parts. Naturally, this completely defeats the purpose of my swapping in a known good axle (still under warranty), which was to avoid having to pay for the bearings in the original to be replaced. After spending so much of my precious time on this, then being forced to cover a monstrous repair bill anyway, I don't know any swear words sufficient to express the way I'm feeling right now.
/Peter
I would have taken it to an axle shop, not the dealer. The service writer and service manager are commissioned and they're not exactly immune to the temptation to jack up the cost of an otherwise minor repair if they think they can get away with it.
Jerry
Peter P> Well, I just got a call from the dealer where I took the GC this morning,
Sound advice, and I would have done so, if there were an axle shop anywhere around here. Are you sure the service writers and managers are all commissioned in Ontario, Canada?
/Peter
A lot of people also have the mistaken assumption that dealer service departments are staffed with mechanics. Most have one mechanic and 10-15 "technicians."
As for specialty shops (in this case a frame and axle shop) they only stay in business because they have a reputation to bale to handle any problem quickly. Good dealerships subcontract to speciality shops for difficult repairs.
How do you identify a good specialty shop?
Rotf, lmao! But true.
Earle
Apparently all the bearings in the diff are shot, because "they had metal run through them", because the "pinion was too tight". I'm going to demand to have the old bearings back before leaving the place.
/Peter
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