Common issue. The bolts are steel and the spacer is aluminum, dissimilar metals weld together. Basically.
Just have to snap the bolts then separate the box and spacer from the body. Snap the spacer into pieces and leaving the "nuts" on the broken bolts. Heat up the nuts, not too much to ruin the seals in the box. Turn the nuts off and turn the bolts out with vise grips. Easy.

 

They are for my front Dana 30 shafts. And they are 5-260x. Lol

 

5-760x are preferable but that will do

 

what's the difference? I just got the spicer ones off rockauto cause I'm always hearing they r the best.

 

5-760X is a Spicer part number. They are the stronger variant of 5-297X U joints.

They are not compatible with the 5-260X as they use a smaller cap. Any ABS shafts, or shafts from a 1996 or newer XJ or TJ use the larger joints.

 

oh I see, I remember seeing that when I ordered them.

 

10-4, 10-8

Ah, a firefighter, I see.

Our 1050 is traffic stop, 1053 is returning to station, 1058 is out of service for veh maintenance/refueling, don't have a 1076, and 1024 is when someone hit the orange button on their radio and the emergency tone goes off all across the channel.

Our FD, both city and county, use plaintext. Per ICS and NIMS, everyone's SUPPOSED to be going to plaintext anyway... but we both know FEMA can't control what departments do when not in ICS mode. As long as your plaintext during a multi-agency response, you're compliant.

Yup, that's a common one shared here. 1028 is license plate, 1029 is records check (essentially, has some form of infraction or criminal history)


Alright, as much as I could go on about 10-codes and signals, back on topic.


I almost got into an accident with it this morning after dropping the boys off for school. I was sitting at the "T" intersection for Chestnut and Baseline. Just SOUTH of the intersection is a convenience store. Jackwagon decided to put is right turn signal on 100 yards (no exaggeration) from Chestnut road so he could turn into the convenience store. So after seeing him decrease his speed with his turn signal on so far away, I inferred that he was turning on Chestnut rd. Nope. Almost caused a nice little pileup

 

Sadly 1053 and 1058 were our times. We're usually not that slow, but it was raining like 2 inches an hour and our repeater was acting up, a lot of guys didn't hear the first page so they didn't get going to station until the text message which usually comes a couple mins later.
Station is 12mi from dispatch, so if the repeater isn't working you don't hear much.
I work right in the middle so I usually hear it fine, I was almost there when they repaged.


Swore at mine. Damn iac sticks and I have to smack it with my pliers. I'm sure the neighbors love when it starts and instantly holds 2000 rpm at 730am.

 

Yeah I got tired of the faded orange/white, I originally painted them the stock orange, but I want it to look more like my dad's LJs cluster so I went with red. Although I say painted, in reality I used a sharpie. Lol.

 

Whatever works lol. I picked up green, blue, and orange model paint when I did the gauges in my old F150. I may or may not use one of those

 

I used nail polish

 

I heard use sharpie or nothing because the paint is so heavy it messes up the needle and won't read right.

 

I can understand the theory, but in my experience it's untrue. Could depend on mechanical vs electric? But I don't see those tiny fractions of a ounce making a noticeable difference

 

what you do when your not wheeling or wrenchin is none of our business! Lol couldn't resist!

Edit: "don't ask, don't tell"

 

changed her oil with good ol' Rotella T6 and a K&N filter at the 170K mile mark.