No stress. Everything is explained at a leisurely pace. No shouting. Just the way I want it. Steve, your channel is a role model. Change nothing! I'm looking forward to the next episode next week! Regards, Adam

I used to work in a machine shop next door to a big rig/tractor repair shop, Estes International. Remember one day walking through the truck shop (our shop didn't have a bathroom, so you had to walk through their shop and use theirs). Old guy Wayne beating on a buck rivet with a chisel and a piece of the mushroom top broke off, ripped through his jeans and right into his man parts. Was one of the loudest screens I'd ever heard from a man. He recovered and returned to work, but was a helluva story to share.

You could have gone many different directions with the showcasing of your saw. You could have skipped the “real” parts where you struggled to start it and where you discussed the safety bits. That’s why I love your channel Steve... you are REAL. You don’t take us to an “over-edited” fantasy land that steers our youth toward misconstrued notions of what REAL life is actually like. Thanks for being real, Steve. 🙏

Ms Elizabeth is a wildlife whisperer. You have inspired me to bite the bullet and rebuild the rear end in my 2000 Ford Ranger... myself. Stay safe, stay well.

@SteveSummers

2 жыл бұрын

You can do it Vernon👍 They really are pretty simple. Ring and pinion setup it's hard either.

I really enjoy these types of videos. Can’t wait to see it all come together

You’re the first person I’ve seen that actually puts the deep creep in the joints instead of just dousing the whole part. Don’t forget your Speedo usually reads off the driveline so changing the gear ratio might put your speedo out of calibration.

And so it begins…. The most thorough and complete tear down and reassembly of a Chevy truck. Love the videos, keep them coming Steve and crew.

My house is completely heated with wood and buying a top handle saw, for all the smaller limbs and delimbing branches is one of the best purchases I've ever made. It's nice to have a saw you can run 1 hand, while using the other to move branches. Another issue with the mushroomed heads of wedges is, sometimes, if the round you are splitting, doesn't break apart (we have to burn softer wood sometimes where I'm located) the mushroomed part will get caught on the wood. So essentially it takes substantially more power to get that round split, due to trying to push the spread out part into the wood.

Great video...I'm impressed by the projects that you tackle...most guys wouldn't.

Haven't seen a Eastern red spotted Newt in a long time . Glad to see the old Square body getting some love .

Steve is very thorough.....like it should be, and a very mechanical and talented individual........🍁

It's so good to see someone take the time to ensure the running components are safe for duty, the Chevy will be like new when the the job is completed. I agree performance parts add Trouble with a capital T. Keep it simple and the old girl will give many more years of service.

Looks like pretty good axles. You will be like having overdrive with those 3.08 gears.

@truckguy6666

2 жыл бұрын

most people want to throw their 3.08s away. A farm truck with a granny gear and a transfer case with low range? They are damn near perfect for that

@richardbates2367

2 жыл бұрын

I had a 86 Chevy k20 custom deluxe that the front axle got destroyed on it was 4.10 gears a built 75 Chevy k20 Silverado 355 with a competition cams Xtreme energy cam kit 268h 474/480 lift 221/224 duration,107 degree.. th400 turbo transmission and np 208 transfer case and b&m tork master 2100 rpm stall torque converter even though it is called a 2900,to 3,500 rpm stall torque converter tork master 3,000rpm but the tach I put in my truck showed it catches at about 2,100 rpm anyways the point was I ended up getting a set of 1983 GMC high Sierra heavy duty f44 suspension axles gm corporate 10 bolt had been rebuilt,rear was a gm corporate 12 bolt rear end, 3.08 gears 400sbc sm465 4spd my truck would fly with the 3.08 gearset, which made it very apparent the power steering gearbox even after adjusting the worm gear was shot, truck stops steering at about 92mph, and developed severe wonder steer with the power steering hooked up at anything above 65mph,my younger brother just took off the power steering pump,my response until I got around to acquiring the parts to repair it was only drive it when I have to and only run about 45mph, and with the 355 in it it would flat out burn the rear tires off, and the truck my brother would stand on taking off in 4wd would spin all 4,I'd tell him to quit smoking my tires if you don't want to buy new ones for my truck. I ended up putting a set of American racing atlas chrome plated aluminum wheels 16x7 and 285/75 r16 Baja widetrack at tires,I ended up putting used tires on I gave the local tire center $100 for $110 total kumho road venture 285/75/r16mt, tires they were just barely less than half tread.. but one of the most simple toughest,most dependable trucks I've ever owned, and I ended up trading it for a early 94 Chevy Silverado Z71 extended cab short bed k1500 rebuilt motor and transmission n and nv 241c replacement transfer case with tag, and that truck isn't half as dependable yet as my 86 Chevy k20 was. Motor is a 0.40 350 tbi from a 1987 Chevy p30 bread truck chassis, and the transmission is from a 1990 Chevy k2500 Chevy Cheyenne th700r4/4l60 transmission off a tbi 350 truck, and the truck has a heartthrob dual cat back exhaust no kit cut off the cat welded straight to the down pipes and has the heartthrob brand glasspack mufflers and straight out the back and has 18 and half inch long 3 1/2 inch stainless steel slant cut exhaust tips. Sounds good at idle wish it sounded like my k20 though lol but even with all the newer parts on this truck it suffered from a severe lack of maintenance and it shows!!

3 jack stands- one under each end of the housing and one under the pinion makes things a lot easier to work on.

Another thoroughly entertaining episode, Steve... Thanks Russ

Great gift of those axles! The overhaul is well worth it. That truck will be sitting high and mighty!

Your workshop is in full use what it was made for. You look really happy doing your work with Elizabeth. Please teach your son the correct way to lift heavy items. I damaged my back 40 years ago and still have to have it attended to every so often.

Hi Steve, due to your reliance on wooden logs, perhaps you could consider making an hydraulic log splitter. It would make an interesting project for your channel, perhaps shown over several videos. Just a thought.

@aforman1951

2 жыл бұрын

Had to split 10cords/yr growing up w/o a hydralic. Spent roughly an hr every day 6 months a yr cutting, stacking splitting , restacking....

@budlanctot3060

2 жыл бұрын

Hydraulic splitters are NICE!

Thank you so much for this very detailed video on the front axle inspection and rebuild Steve. Great fan of your Pick-up videos!

I really enjoyed watching this! It was interesting to see exactly how a driven front axle and the hub locking mechanism works. It was also nice to see Elizabeth get involved and make sure you are doing this job right. :)

Hey Thanks Steve, haven't seen a video THIS detailed on this subject on this platform ever !!

A tip I was shown regarding heads on chisels was to remove the mushroom on the grinder and then run a bead of bronze weld around the edge of the head with a torch. The head still mushrooms under impact but the bronze weld hangs onto the edges and minimises them flying off.

Lots of interesting stuff going on in this video! I’m learning about stuff I shall never have any involvement with, but find it fascinating anyway. Thanks, Steve.

Very good presentation. Cleaning parts always takes longer than the job. Chain sharpening by hand I have never got it 100% consistent, so now do with a grinder with a fixed set up that keeps angle and cut depth to each tooth the same.

Hey Steve, first let me say love the stuff you do. I'm a gunsmith , machinist and woodturner. You just made me cry, LOL. Love you brother.

I bought a Government Surplus replacement P/T front driving axle for my old Dodge 3/4t pickup. It was the correct ratio, and it replaced the horrible full time 4wd front axle my truck came with originally. All I had to do was clean off the cosmoline and add some locking front hubs, and then bolt it in. Best improvement ever.

So good you broke that thing down. I thought it was good to go as is, good thing you’re smarter than me!!!

Awesome set of newish axles. This will be a great repair!

The keystock trick was slick.

Got a sliver in my eye once pre safety glasses. Fortunately it came out easily!

I'm so pumped about this. Saving a gem

Good evening from Australia Steve

Thanks for the upload. My 90 GMC may thank you later, too.

An Awesome Video. Loved watching it. ✌🖐👍👍

Axles look clean and nice on camera. Def upgrade for the Chevy! I like the series idea on the truck..

Watching you and your son struggle a little with moving that front axle made me think that you could use a concrete apron in front of your shop. For all the automotive work you do , a concrete apron a couple feet longer than your truck would make working on your vehicles and other large projects a lot easier than working on stone. Especially if you ever drop anything in a stone driveway. Maybe in your spare time next year! 😂

heat is your best friend when taking those stock u-joints out. breaking the injection mold plastic retainers in the press can get rather violent. torch 'em out, the heat will burn that plastic out of there, making removal much easier.

Magnetic chainsaw blades 🤣🤣🤣🤣 so true!!

My grandfather had a Pioneer 210, predecessor to the P21 (dad had). Anyway 1st start 21 pulls with choke on and start nex pull every time.

If the camera wasn’t on that chainsaw would have started 1st pull 😆

@SteveSummers

2 жыл бұрын

Yep! That's how it goes most the time

@SeanBZA

2 жыл бұрын

@@SteveSummers That is why I got electric, at least it will work after 6 months of being in the garage. Also have 2 spare fan couplers, after killing the first one after 5 years. Extension saw makes for easy work on hedges and lower branches of trees, as you can stand far off from the pieces that are about to fall. Friend has the big saw for the thicker branches, but the long reach was great when we were trimming a bougainvillea bush for the first time in 2 decades. Thorns not a problem, until the last, when it was being trimmed off level with the ground. Growing back, that did not kill it. Garden refuse removal guys did not like that pile of thorns with attitude though, we all got bad scratches and thorns in, despite wearing a set of garden gloves under the welding gloves.

@charlesangell_bulmtl

2 жыл бұрын

My 028 likes a sniff of fuel too...About 1-2wks

Sad to see such nice walnut going into the fire. I would be taking it to my lathe!

That saw was made when people were responsible for their selves and didn’t need someone else to take care of them

I thought I would just comment. That I appreciate including your wife and kids in these videos! They are part of your life and daily interactions and it’s nice to see that. We all have that in our lives! Also let Elizabeth know I thought it was funny when she said that she went through the bearings and all looked good! Thanks for sharing!

your way is probably the easiest way I've seen for those slotted locknuts. Even if it were stuck you could get more leverage on the outer assembly

Thanks for sharing!

Enjoying your videos

I'm lernin !! lol great explanations.

Hi Steve, he who cuts wood gets warmed twice. Used to live in a forest and had all the free logs I needed, moved and cut tons over the years.

You are a good candidate for watching Buckin Billy Ray Smith. Lol!

Hi. Love the truck. I have just subscribed to see the rebuild / repairs of it. You have a lovely family and a great looking place to live. Wish I was young again to do what you are doing. The truck is well worth saving and using. We dont see those trucks here in UK.

@SteveSummers

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, glad to have you as a subscriber 👍

Steve keep up the good work and also love the old 015 it reminded me of the chain saw my late grandfather had

I was picking up some oxy-acetylene tanks from an old timer, and he threw in a old homelite XL-12 for free from the 60's. Nowhere near the saw of my stihl 261, but man I love getting it going and cutting some wood.

cold chisels are notorious for chipping off shrapnel !

Learn something new every Saturday morning. Nice job Steve. Thanks for sharing.

These top handle saws are what professional tree mechanics prefer when pruning and topping trees they climb. It is great to see you working with the saw with BOTH feet on the ground. Many have died from cuts to there femoral artery by holding the piece to be sawn with one foot up exposing the inside of their leg and crotch area. Awesome fella to have brought you the H/D undercarriage for your pickup. You will find the ride a bunch rougher but who cares.eh. If I didn't know better a person would never know when passing by what a great shop is hiding behind it's rough looking exterior. Smoke and mirrors eh. Love it and that key stock trick is a beauty. I sure wish I had known that one 50 years ago eh. When removing the inner axle housing/spindle with the needle bearing I just use a 5 lb dead blow hammer and give them a good hard smack. I have done over 100 of them and never harmed one in the process. Thanks a bunch for the memories of when I hade my own repair shop working on these units when they were much newer than they are today. The perfect start to my Saturday morning my friend.

Hi Steve, I'm so glad that you are doing up the old girl,! The replacement parts you got should come in handy. knowing how thorough you are the new to you parts will probably be as good as new by the time you put them on the truck. While you have easy access, and MOST Diffs don't have them, why not drill and tap a drain plug in the shell for easy removal of oil? Same with the gearbox also, It saves a lot of needless agro and it means that you are more likely to change your diff oil on a more frequent interval. You mentioned about going through water in a 4wd A late farmer friend gave me this advice many years ago, "just because a vehicle CAN do such and such it doesn't mean that you need to do it just because it is fun, protect the assets and have them working when you really need them, because that one time might just save your life or get you out of a serious situation " also a vehicle is to get you from A to B with the least amount of trouble If you want to play have a specific vehicle to do so with. Tony from Western Australia 🇦🇺

“Your title here” 😁 (very end of video) Been there, done that…

This is great Steve. A good video and tutorial all in one.

Looks like that truck will be running for a while, Steve. Thanks for passing those along to Steve, Scott! 👍👍👍👍Good to see that in some aspects of life we still have the ability to repair our own property instead of being dictated to by some gigantic corporation that wants its arms in all your pockets. 😠

Very interesting, you can learn such a lot from videos like this, cheers Steve.

I'm looking forward to this project 😀

Loved my old 032 Stihl. Cut MY teeth on it back in the '70s... Michael in Colorado

I never made any money at a flea sale., I always bought everything. Winter is taking its time an thats nice. My old trucks are gone now and it hurts in a way as I had so much fun with them

hi, as it is as usual, i ran into the same thing with my weedwacker from stihl. the manual recommended checking sparkplug ( distance of contacttips) airfilter, carb settings( l&h screws) , so i checked. all things needed adjustments, sparkplug was waaay of, and it ran too fat, after few minutes adjusting everything worked fine. no priming neccesary, 3 pulls in cold mode makes it run fine now, it takes off immediatly as soon i pull the trigger 👍. as allways thank you for sharing your knowledge. may god bless you, stay healthy . cheers from berlin, germany ( perhaps u should contact ironhorse on utube for your nice tophandle stihl ?)

Have you ever seen where folks install a drain plug into the differential covers? Makes diff oil changes a breeze because you don’t have to take off the covers to drain the gear case. Really helps with maintaining with oil changes especially with those old 10 bolts.

Funny when you jinxed the saw by talking it up. I also have older saws, and sometimes you can pull on them for ages without a sign of life, then they just pop on, and work flawlessly after that.

Hi Steve and family, thanks for another interesting video, that will be a good reliable axle when you've overhauled it, and we'll worth the time spent on it, full mark's for being thorough steve, loved the bit where Elizabeth sat at the bench describing the rotor ,etc, she looked real convincing until she laughed, lol. I'm sure their all a big help to you when you need another pair of hands, stay safe all of you, Best wishes, Stuart uk.

Performance parts for me is a full tank of gas, lol. Thanks for sharing!

Great video! :D

You can also squirt a little fuel on the air filter, last longer than pouring it in the carb and it vaporizes better because the airflow breaks it up into a fine mist. Think blowing through it with an airgun.

One more thing that someone may have already mentioned about rigs with locking hubs. If you haven't used 4WD in a long while go ahead and lock the hubs in for a few miles (can leave the transfer case in 2WD). This will get all the gears in the case and the oil moving and hopefully prevent any rust scaring on the ring gear from sitting in one place in water or bone dry above the oil line/level.

Steve what ya need ta do with all yer used oil and and solvent mix is ta use it in yer wood stove set it up so that ya can drip it on the wood. just a thought Steve I've been burnin wood for over 35 years in my house and shop. just a thought. Just thought I would pass it on ta ya.....

Great find with the axles Steve. Have a great week my friend.

@SteveSummers

2 жыл бұрын

Good to see you Ron👍

Great video! One of these days, you'll have to explain the hop-up part to your grandson. My grandson listened to my explanation, and figured I was just trying to get out of the work!

You need a spring retainer washer To prevent the shifting spring from jumping down and rubbing on the bearings. I usually made my own

Thanks!

If you ever get lazy you can make an attachment for your press to help split the wood. LOL

On many occasions while watching your vids, I have thought "why don't you have a small tractor" like a kubota BX25 like mine, especially when you were working on your building. I can't imagine being without it and I have less use for it than you. I use mine primarily in the winter blowing snow. Summertime I mostly just move stuff like my trash cans out to the curb, or for gathering firewood.

Steve, That's good advice about the mushroomed heads. I was lucky the chunk missed me and went through the bottom lip of the guy next to me and lodged in his jaw bone. The change to 3.08 gears will transform your fuel mileage out of site and give you much lower noise levels on the highway from the lower revs. If your speedo still works don't forget to change the drive cable gearing to suit the "new" axle ratio. Log splitter project in the pipeline??? Eric

I saw comments about building a log splitter. Pretty sure that shaper could split any wood you threw at it. Plus, its right near the stove! Bonus!

Your boy needs to lift with the knees, just say'n... Enjoyable as ever. Haha, Elizabeth playing you :P

We also heat with firewood we have a old cast iron 400-700 pound hearthstove.

Your videos are always cool, great channel, wish mine was as cool..... lol

Stock as a rock is good enough for the truck, mate. Military gear ! = bonus. A long time ago, I had a piece of a centre punch mushroom in the back of my hand for a few months..... by the time I got the courage to dig it out, it was black steel from the acid in my blood.... size of a BBQ match head. Wasn't fun digging it out, but I knew it had to come out. Cheers from Australia.

Buy a set of SS brake lines for the truck while you are at it. Well worth the money and effort to install.

Ohhhh my, so excited for this!

That's a young saw. I declined taking my Grandfather's Craftsman 16" Bar saw....it weight about 30 pounds...it was from the 40's or early 50's. WAY too heavy to be safe to use at that size. I DO have his Homelite XL 12" Bar from 1963! Yep, he bought it right off the bat when a "Lightweight" saw was now available. Only issue is the rubber bar oil and fuel tubes have rotted away, and you can't get them. Looking to use fuel line that is used for small 2-Cycle engines (Weed Whips and Blowers). As for that universal joint...35 years ago? Solid chance I made that thing. I worked for Dana during the summer a couple times and that would be right in that timeframe. I made THOUSANDS of those things. It was the job that told me to I DO NOT want to do unskilled shop work. Money was great even as an "agency" person, but standing at a station all day making those joints sucked more than anything ever. I was good at it though, they moved me to every single station in that place, and asked me to work fulltime. Nope, I was going to be an engineer...lol.

Just got done doing the same thing to the front axle on my Jeep

Take that old 80-90 and oil change oil and "paint" all of the rusty metal on the truck. It slows down the rust and helps with the bolts when you replace something.

Tak!

Thank you for sharing. Fantastic. Watched and very much enjoyed.

Great to see the work on the new front axle

If you have put a carb kit in the saw and it is still not starting I would suggest that you put a fuel line and filter in. Also, equal strokes does not matter on sharpening a chain. As long as you take down all the rakers with a gauge. Nice score on the axles!

I'm sure you know this, but because of the paint I thought it was worth mentioning you should flip the bar every time you change the chain

I did that with an old car once, sitting with friends saying how it had never let me down, walked out and and it wouldn't start, pride comes before a fall.

I have owned both a 82 Chevy k20 Silverado was originally a 6.2 litre Vin z diesel 4spd and np205 anyways it and the 86 Chevy k20 custom deluxe that I had when I got it both had rear shocks with a coil spring on them I put regular shocks back on the 86 Chevy k20,but the shocks like the 82 Chevy Silverado k20 were the factory rear shocks for it, but you might want to consider putting some of them on the rear of your truck Steve sir..

Happy Saturday Mornin Steve, Elizabeth, Critters, and Grits! Good, down home content. I recall working on similar front axels in my 75 Blazer,. U Tube is a great networking extended family always helping one another! I love it. Thanks for sharing the journey, God Bless!

Good interesting video Steve..Look forward to the install.

Very good axels looking forward to the install nice upgrade

I think 🤔 you need to do a build like donnydiy make yourself a mechanical mule that can move lift or push stuff and save your back most importantly. Great video looking forward to seeing the truck restored back to life 😀