Worked like a champ! The long grade 8 bolt survived as well. It placed the head in a good position for hammering. I just needed to jack the end of the leaf spring up a few inches so it pulled that support rod away from the bolts path. And yes, it was the rusted steel sleeve inside the bushing that hung up.

Now, I have the spindle with bearing support sitting on the floor but I cannot get that conical spacer to budge thus releasing the spindle. I have it pressed out tomorrow. Will I be able to assemble the new parts? I'm going to guess that is a large crush spacer that will probably slip on ok and will collapse and lock in place as I draw down the large spindle nut. Is this correct? Or will it need something more specialized to assemble? My assembled spindle and half shaft bearing adapter will be here tomorrow. Bairs said I would just bolt all the pieces back together.

|UPDATED|7/10/2014 10:11:30 PM (AZT)|/UPDATED|

No.. There is no crush sleeve on these. There is a solid spacer, and shims are used to get the correct clearance. There is no "pre-load"....
This is not like a ring/pinion set-up at all. Your new set-up will/should come preassembled and the clearance is set already. All you do is install the support to the t-arm, and put the halfshaft flange on, and tighten the flange nut to spec. You will NOT be able to crush that spacer in there. If you DO....well....you must be a Marvel Superhero with super-human strength!

Yup, sometimes I ask to many questions. It was just as you described...I was overly satisfied with the assembly from Bairs. It came with a new backing plate, a spring loaded e-brake shoe pin that didn't cause any assembly issues, nice blasted/painted bearing support, caliper adapter and half-shaft adapter. It assembled like butter. The hardest part was trying to get a proper angle on the half shaft bolts that allowed the torque wrench to fit. Once you figure out how to approach the e-brake shoes its not that bad to install.

  

On the halfshaft flanges.....you DID replace/re-install the french locks, dint ya? If not, you really should have them on there....they'll keep those bolts from backing out....which they always seem to do at the worst possible time. Glad to hear ya got it back together, anyway....now on to the brake problem....






torque wrench? whaz that?




|UPDATED|7/15/2014 9:52:58 AM (AZT)|/UPDATED|

Yup, the tab locks are in place.