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  1. Jobi-Wan Kenobi

    Headliner fabric

    Those that have redone your headliner, where did you get the fabric?
  2. Jobi-Wan Kenobi

    Rear seat cable

    My Tahoe only has 2 row seating and the cable for folding down the rear seat on the drivers side is broken. I found 2 part numbers, both of which are no longer available (12478303 and 88941497). Anyone know where I can find a replacement?
  3. Jobi-Wan Kenobi

    Inner axle shaft fixin

    @Rocket Man I could feel myself kind of dragging my feet going to work on it. Like I just didn't want to. But glad I'm getting somewhere now.
  4. Jobi-Wan Kenobi

    Inner axle shaft fixin

    Well I'd have rather spent Thanksgiving weekend doing other things besides working on the Tahoe but here we are Super productive day yesterday. Got the engine oil pan dropped and changed the pickup tube o-ring. Got the pan put back in with a fresh gasket. Dad helped me get the axle assembly...
  5. Jobi-Wan Kenobi

    Inner axle shaft fixin

    @Rocket Man no, my dad and I took it over to a guys place last weekend to see if he could help get it apart after we pulled it and split the case. He had a bearing spreader on there loaded up pretty good but the cir clip wouldn't let go. The flange on the shaft ended up breaking so we ended...
  6. Jobi-Wan Kenobi

    Inner axle shaft fixin

    I got the axle assembly mostly put back together yesterday. I took it to my place of work. Spent pretty much the whole day there getting it cleaned up and putting it together. For whatever reason I have one seal that I couldn't get back in (ironically the one for the shaft on the drivers...
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    Inner axle shaft fixin

    @Fless See what you did there :D I suppose though since I have the axle out its probably worth while now to go a little deeper and drop the oil pan and change that o-ring for the oil pick up tube.
  8. Jobi-Wan Kenobi

    Inner axle shaft fixin

    Dad and I took by another guy this morning. He didn't have a slide hammer but he had a bearing spreader. We got it apart but we lost the shaft in the process. Looks like new shafts cost almost as much as an entire used axle assembly. I see one of the salvage yards here has a pile of shafts...
  9. Jobi-Wan Kenobi

    Inner axle shaft fixin

    @George B i was wondering if a slide hammer with that 3 bolt thing that looks like a bird foot would work. I have a slide hammer here from O'Reilly's but it doesn't have the other attachment.
  10. Jobi-Wan Kenobi

    Inner axle shaft fixin

    @gooffeyguy pry bar and a dead blow. Today I was trying bigger pry bars, pry bars wedged in behind wood blocks (since the shaft wasn't in all the way) and had beaten them in to try getting the taper to push shaft out, and wedging a pry bar in and beating the shaft with a dead blow.
  11. Jobi-Wan Kenobi

    Inner axle shaft fixin

    Dad and I got out and split. We can't really do much with it though because the shaft is stuck in the differential assembly.
  12. Jobi-Wan Kenobi

    Inner axle shaft fixin

    @OR VietVet use of different things were mentioned, but I don't remember anyone saying not to use the shaft.
  13. Jobi-Wan Kenobi

    Inner axle shaft fixin

    @Rocket Man yea, would have been much smarter. This thread should probably be titled "this is what you don't do". But I honestly feel like I should punt on this and look for a different assembly to swap in.
  14. Jobi-Wan Kenobi

    Inner axle shaft fixin

    @randeez , you mean once I get that far? That is a really interesting idea though.
  15. Jobi-Wan Kenobi

    Inner axle shaft fixin

    Wow this thing is making my head hurt. Back at it this weekend. My new bearing and seal didn't show up in time for this weekend, but I figured I could at least get the cir clip in (and work on some other stuff). I got the cir clip started. Apparently there is a groove just before the splines...
  16. Jobi-Wan Kenobi

    Inner axle shaft fixin

    Looks like I need to stop by the forum a bit more often than just when I'm working on the tahoe. @OR VietVet I'm much the same way. I know enough to be dangerous. I used to be a diesel service tech myself. I'm not in that line of work anymore but I still do most all of my own service work...
  17. Jobi-Wan Kenobi

    Inner axle shaft fixin

    Thanks guys. At least we've all learned something through this. Pulling the old cir clip out really wasn't even that hard. A long curved pick made it pretty easy. I just wish we had figured out this out sooner. As far as install goes though, I'm thinking for sure start with the bearing and...
  18. Jobi-Wan Kenobi

    Inner axle shaft fixin

    @89Suburban yea I have been beating my head on this thing for the past 3 weekends. I have never fought with something so much. I just need to get the race for the needle bearing out because I trashed the bearing pulling the shaft back out. @George B I'll have to check that out.
  19. Jobi-Wan Kenobi

    Inner axle shaft fixin

    I've never split a front axle assembly before. In the event that the idea i have above doesn't work is it worth going through splitting this one to put a new cir clip in or should I just swap in another one?
  20. Jobi-Wan Kenobi

    Inner axle shaft fixin

    @Rocket Man that's what I'm gathering.
  21. Jobi-Wan Kenobi

    Inner axle shaft fixin

    @Fless i believe so. I watched another video earlier and saw the same.
  22. Jobi-Wan Kenobi

    Inner axle shaft fixin

    Just a thought. What's the likelihood of pulling the shaft out, removing the cir clip, putting the cir clip in the shaft bore and then using the shaft to push the cir clip into place? Theoretically it would avoid me having to drop the axle and split it.
  23. Jobi-Wan Kenobi

    Inner axle shaft fixin

    @RAMurphy I just bought a pdf set last weekend. I'd did look through it a bit and found the install process for this was reverse of removal. No word of removing the cir clip.
  24. Jobi-Wan Kenobi

    Inner axle shaft fixin

    The OD of the cir clip measures 1.258".
  25. Jobi-Wan Kenobi

    Inner axle shaft fixin

    @Rocket Man I can't get any pictures of the shaft without pulling it back out of the housing which would likely damage the seal again. But with the clip on the shaft there really isn't any room for it to compress and the diameter does protrude past the splines.

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