Glad everything went alright. Did the tools help?

 

flywheel holding tool was mint.

Slide hammer was just a tad too small (luckily the shop had a puller kit). Extension was plenty long but we ended up using a 1/2" drive one for for torques

 

glad atleast the flywheel tool helped lol

 

got one side of my brakes changed - the side that was leaking. Soooo nice to have some rear braking power again, even if it is only one side for now lol.

You could say they needed to be changed

 

swapping that 8.8 would have fixed them brake issue too

 

I need to do this with mine. Loaded the jeep down yesterday morning with a bunch of stuff my friend was getting rid of out of his storage unit. Even had a cargo rack on the back with a dresser on it. Light changed to red and caught me by surprise - figured out real quick it was my front brakes doing all the work - was taking the steering wheel all over the road. Got it stopped though. Stupid drum brakes.

 

Wow, great images and story. best of all, you're having fun doing it all :-)




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Check out those brakes!

I just did mine too and the wear wasn't as extensive on my drums, but the fronts were ready!

 

Well I was TRYING to hold out on doing them knowing i would be swapping that in. However like usual, my jeep had other plans

 

likely story

 

Sounds like an excuse, should have made it an incentive! lol.

 

Drove the Acura to work today. Steering on the jeep was frozen this morning and spitting fluid from where the rubber steering-box-to-cooler return line connects to the metal tube at the box...thinking somehow the fluid in the cooler is frozen...It's impossible to steer, but moves a slight amount if I crank on the wheel hard.

So i'm gonna freeze my *** off tonight dealing with that and putting my front driveshaft back in for the snowstorm tomorrow

 

Must have a lot of moisture in the lines for it to freeze, yeah? I wouldn't think it's cold enough there to freeze PS fluid.

 

Yea...I dunno.

Replaced the line, started it up and it blew the line again right where it entered the cooler. So I took the cooler off and stuck it in the sink under hot water to clear it out. Reinstalled with some new clamps and works mint now.

I plumbed the cooler with the inlet at the bottom now, so that should prevent any future issues with moisture buildup and air pockets

 

this thing hit 300k yet?