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grousehunter 61 · 09-10-2021, 04:58 PM

Well the rear end got its revenge, yesterday I crawled under the truck to pull the center carrier to send back to Summit. the last time I worked on it I put only one of the end caps on to hold the gears in, remembering how hard it was to pull the carrier I took a short pry bar, removed the end cap and reached for the pry bar, turned my head to the right and the carrier dropped out of the housing and hit me on the left side of my face, now anybody that has worked on one of these knows how heavy they are, with the truck jacked up it fell about 1 to 1 1/2 feet and got me good, the wife saw me crawling out from under the truck with a face full of blood, she got a wet wash rag and cleaned me up. I think its going to leave a mark from my left ear to my chin with the cheek bone taking the brunt of it. Us 80 year old men should leave things like this to the younger guys.

09-10-2021, 04:58 PM	#9
grousehunter 61 Registered User Join Date: May 2014 Location: Pollock Idaho Posts: 49	Re: Building rear differential Well the rear end got its revenge, yesterday I crawled under the truck to pull the center carrier to send back to Summit. the last time I worked on it I put only one of the end caps on to hold the gears in, remembering how hard it was to pull the carrier I took a short pry bar, removed the end cap and reached for the pry bar, turned my head to the right and the carrier dropped out of the housing and hit me on the left side of my face, now anybody that has worked on one of these knows how heavy they are, with the truck jacked up it fell about 1 to 1 1/2 feet and got me good, the wife saw me crawling out from under the truck with a face full of blood, she got a wet wash rag and cleaned me up. I think its going to leave a mark from my left ear to my chin with the cheek bone taking the brunt of it. Us 80 year old men should leave things like this to the younger guys.