Complete Rear Axle Build with my 81 year old Dad. Chevy build 11 

I'm 80 yrs young and I can tell you from personal exerience that your dad values the time spent with you just as much as you do. Enjoy every moment as life is all too short and time is fleeting. I never had the opprotunity to spend quality with my dad. He passed when he was 56 while I was 24 & in the service. Treasure each moment.

Steve: THANK YOU again for another GREAT video. Not that you don't know but just to impress more deeply, SPEND as much time with your dad as you can for when he passes on you are going to miss him a lot. Time spent with him now is good for both you and him. I lost my dad when he turned 89 almost 90 by a few days and I would do most anything to have him back again. I don't regret any of the times he called me to ask for help.

81? God bless him! You are a lucky guy. I miss my Dad.

It was good to see your dad work with you

They make what's called a speedy sleeve to fix the yoke. But spray welding makes a much cooler video.

Watching you and your Dad working together has me sitting here with tears welling up in my eyes. Treasure these times, my friend.

Steve, your "eviction notice" reminded me of a guy that visited a poorer section of town to find a place the rent. He wasn't too thrilled by what he saw. His buddy asked him if there were any roaches. He told him that there wasn't a single one. His buddy said that sounds great. He told him it wasn't good. He said they were all married and had kids. Fortunately his buddy found that humorous.

I recall you mentioning your daughter asking why you need all those tools. I get that a lot too. But here is a perfect example. You need to press out bearings - u have a press. You need to make a tool so you press them out putting force only in the outer race - you have a lathe and a scrap box to make it. Worn seal surface, no problem - spray weld it and machine it. You are at the point where you can do just about anything’s you want to do. One thing you don’t have, and I put a temporarily one together and really love it, is a spray booth with good ventilation and dust protection. You can get by without it but once you have it you will appreciate not getting dust all over your paint jobs or overspray all over the shop. I used a winter car shelter which are common here in the frozen North. A barn fan, velcro zipper opening and furnace filters completed it. I realize everything costs money and space and you have to prioritize. Something to think about. Keep up the good work. You must be loving your warm, well lit, well equipped huge shop with great views. What a difference a few 1000 hrs of swear makes! 😀

When Dad shows up, I always say, "we called in the big gun on this one"

My old man was an architect and a woodworker, pointed out to me that mechanics worked on cars , If I’d had the money I wouldn’t have either !

You had me hooked when you mentioned Timkin bearings ! Steve please please loose the hoodie strings when working on the lathe!

Nice to see dad in the shop..project is coming along nicely

Great to have your father in the video and hanging out with you at 81,,Super! At age 13 (1966) my dad stood over me when he was 43 and schooled me on my first engine rebuild. Pops got polio in '54 and could only school me, but some of the best times of my life were having him teach me. Enjoy you Dad while you can,,and the best to you and the whole family over the Holidays..See you in 2022, good Lord willing,,,Oh, you did a super job setting up the diff ! Bear & Sammie in TX.

Might as well pull the engine and trans too. No need leaving them the only things not rebuilt. Then just set miles back to 0 and you have a new Steve truck! 🤠

My dad croaked 3 years ago. Miss those times hunting, and fishing, but not working on vehicles.

Your pops in the shop giving a helping hand is a great day in the shop.

An old school trick used by guys that were swapping gears somewhat regularly was to run a piece of paper through the gears. They would be either swapping gears for street vs racing or be in a jam somewhere on the side of the road, and pretty well already had an idea what shims to use. So the idea was if the gears cut the paper you needed to adjust something. When it fed through and didn't cut the paper it would get you by for a while. ....you're a lucky guy steve, my dads been gone for decades now, ...what I wouldn't give to spend an afternoon messing with an old truck with him. Thanks for sharing..Merry Christmas!

I forgot you had a new tool to try out. When you first showed the yoke I thought oh just put a speedy sleeve on it.

Steve,you do some exceptionally nice work! It is always great to watch and learn from you. Eric

Great video. Most auto repair is quite easy to understand if you take a bit to educate yourself and don’t get in a hurry. Looking great 👍

Man you know your stuff.. 5/5 content Steve. 👍🏻

I love the new logo with you and Elizabeth. Great seeing your dad working with you. Priceless time together. Merry Christmas to you and your family, and to your mom and dad. 😎

After lifting the axle off the floor... "I'm gonna regret that". I do the same thing 🤣

Another Sat. Morning, glued to my phone, Steve!!..🍁

🤩 That moment when you realize you need to break out the spray welder.

Apart from the "spectacular fireworks content" I really enjoyed watching you working with your dad. It reminded me of my childhood when I was allowed to work with my uncle in his carpenter shop. Precious times really.

Nice work Steve and thanks for the metric shout outs ! 🇬🇧

You have a great Atom Bomb impression with the flaming torch welding

Have to say I do enjoy seeing your dad help you out. In many ways he reminds me of my dearly departed dad, just some of the mannerisms and the way he moves. And great memories of working with him. Cherish those times!

I hope Yukon does well. It is so nice to find a business that not only responds quickly (as in a timely manner) but also one that answers all you questions and then asks some themselves so you get the best possible outcome for what you are rebuilding. If they were in my location then Yukon would now be my first call if I was after that gear. 👍

I sure do like your style my friend. Deciding weather or not to reserect this fine old Chevy was a tough call but it is a far simpler unit with the ability to be fixable at home or on the road and not a computerized thin tin modern unit that has little to be done with them if they quit is right down my alley. I will be driving mine for a very long time yet. Wow, , , Steve at the lathe. It's been a while since we have seen you there eh. I know you love to "fix" everything but wouldn't it have been far easier to use a seal "Speedy Sleeve" on the input yoke. They are about $15.00 US and are super easy to install. It is sure nice to see this spray weld and machining route though. How nice to see your dad today. He is what I would be proud to be like him at that age in 15 or 20 years. He taught you to excel or to be as good as you can be. I am sure he is very proud of you and your family. Well god fella. Once again you made a 40 min post seem like 30 seconds. Thanks a bunch and I will be seeing you next post. Take care eh, and please stay safe and virus free.

Happy Saturday Steve, Elizabeth, Dad, and Grits! From Roofs to Rear axles, the scope of your abilities is amazing! Your generosity in sharing is most appreciated! Thanks! God Bless, Merry Christmas.

I worked in a machine shop back in 1998 ish and I have always enjoyed machine work I really enjoyed this video with what you did on that yoke was awesome!!! I've never seen any one do that.

I learned something today. I would never have thought that gears that came new would have to be checked for dings and bits.

Yukon is the best, great products, great tech help, great folks. Simply a great company IMO!!!!!

For those who do not do it every day it seems super complicated but in the end it's quite simple, on the other hand accustomed to metric measurements I wonder how you can manage to do something without calculation errors ha ha ha and me for the cages of bearings I heat the "hole" to around 80 ° C and I put the cage in Madam's freezer, you don't hit it, you put it down and shplok! it is placed in the direct background, it always works ... hello from France!

You’re a lucky man, Steve. The best part of this was your father’s presence. My father wasn’t a mechanical kind of guy, but he was fascinated that my brother and I built engines, transmissions, rear ends, and such and he used to “help” at times. Both of them have passed on since those days and working on my stuff just isn’t the same. It’s still good, but different. Props to Yukon, we just built a 9 inch Ford rear for an 82 F100 with a 2018 Coyote transplant using their kit. I suspect that is you and your mother arm in arm in the last still shot. It kind of sums it all up. Merry Christmas to you and yours.

I'd watch Steve's video's even if they were un edited and an hour long.😉👍👍👍👍👍

Love seeing your dad in the videos. I hope you replaced the old bearings for the new after the preload test. You never did say, or I missed it. Merry Christmas to you Liz, and your entire family.

Awesome job Steve!!! Good to see your Dad!

I'm really enjoying this truck series. You are one of those well rounded mechanics with a wealth of common sense in many areas. We were cut from the same cloth....guys like us are a rare breed. It really does boil down to common sense, which is not so common these days.

Great work Steve 👍 it’s always good to have you dad help out 😎 another awesome video

So above my pay grade. I AM intimidated. But, so interesting. Thanks, Steve

Good to see your dad enjoying himself

So glad to see you all served the Kentucky storms, keep up the good work and getting your dad involved.

Aww man evicted the mouse family? and right around Christmas? You hate to see it. :D

@ 33:09 Just noticed... Love the axle stands...

That truck turned into a tank 😁

The new artwork is indeed VERY cute. Maybe he can do some 1/4 poster size with a catchy slogan for sale. Steve Summers, more than just a Guy in a Shop. ?

Nice work. I miss my dad’s insight on mechanical repair. But I have a few of his old tools that are used almost daily and my Starrett #120 dual caliper is one which he gave me in 1980. Starrett rebuilt it for me last year. Cheers.

Steve, you aren't showing that truck a "little bit of love" ... dude, you're giving it all the love and throwing the kitchen sink in to boot! :o)

Real nice to see you spending time with your dad... :) Merry Christmas to you and your family...

I have a Yukon 9” Detroit locker and am very happy with it in my ford maverick . Took some getting use to to not do donuts when trying to do a u turn

Here I am at 5 AM local, and already watched the entire video. Sometimes insomnia is a blessing.

At 16:00 why not chuck up the yoke seal and shave 50-100th off of the inner edge, and drive it in further into the axle housing, to a new lip sealing location on the yoke. depending upon your actual yoke, you may be able to trim 50-100th off of the bottom of the yoke instead and get a new lip seal location that way as well. You would need to check if the big nut could still clamp the yoke to the pinion correctly, maybe clearance the pinion if necessary. Getting into Bigger Lathe stuff now, but still more common than spray welders. Almost all of us do not have spray welders at our ready use, but many more have small lathes to do this type of repair at home.. Thanks for the otherwise excellent content

It was good to see your dad in the shop again. I haven't tackled a full differential rebuild yet so this was really helpful.

Excellent work on that third member! Good choice using the Yukon gears, and axles.

Very informative video. Great to see you working with your dad, savor those memories. Not to criticize, but tuck tose hood strings in when working around the lathe, I would hate to here of an accident. Have a great holiday with your family.

Hi Steve, l love watching your videos every Saturday morning. I noticed you have your brake shoes on backwards in one of the shots. Primary shoe is the smaller of the two shoes and always goes on the front. The smaller surface area of the primary shoe helps with the self energizing of the brakes. Keep up the good work.

Hi Steve, please tell your farther he's an inspiration and all the best from down under., cheers.

Enjoyed seein your Pap on the show. I see he doesn’t have a channel so I leave his thumbs up here. More of your dad would be fine with me.

diff work isnt hard but it is precice and repeditive (meaning you be mounting and take it apart a few times before you get the meshing of the gears and torq on the pinionshaft rotation right)

Hi Steve,I did a Yucon limited slip for my 2000 chev 1 ton 6.5.It works really well,I hardly need the 4x4 anymore.Use their limited slip fluid additive and change after 500 miles. Nice jig boreing on that bearing.Nice build.And you got to heat the shop up with the metal sprayer too.Wish you shown how the crush sleeve worked and how to install it.Its a real pain to do it with the axel installed on the truck and not have a lift.

Well done on the axle rebuild Steve, Merry Christmas.

Great video Steve! Hope those Kentucky mice are smarter than our Okie mice as ours apparently can't read because they always ignore my eviction signs. 😉 You and your family have a very Merry Christmas!

I ran a 8.5" ten bolt in my 68 GTO. The car had a healthy 455, TH 400 with 3,500 converter, 4.10 ratio, stock GM posi unit and stock axles. The rear axle came from a 73 or 74 Cutlass, took custom upper arms, relocating the coil spring mounts and shock mounts to fit it. That combination went high 11s in the quarter mile in a 3,980 car on slicks. That rear will be plenty strong for what you do.

On late 60s olds they used a ten bolt ring gear and non C clip axles but used a 12 bolt housing that will not accept a 12 carrier. So yes as most go by the cover bolts you can't always go to the bank by counting cover bolt.

Steve, Another great video, Merry Christmas to you and your family,Thanks.

at my job "we build differentials for scania trucks" we shim the pinions by shimming out the bearing race in the housing rather then the bearing on the pinion gear it makes it easy to replace the shims and get the spacing just right but annoyingly enough it also results in having to adjust the spacers inbetween the bearings on the pinion EDIT! i don't want to criticize what you are doing here i just wanted to give another perspective it's actually really nice to see so many different ways to do essentially the same thing working

Your Dad what an awesome QC inspector and helper!

M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S to you and your family. I was watching the Precision Transmission channel and they were singing the praises of Yukon, so at least one other RU-vidr agrees with you Steve. I agree with you that the first contact with a company sets the tone, I know that it doesn't always follow but if they care at the start it is more than likely that it will result in a good product, because the customer service team haven't been worn down by complaints.

Hey Steve looks like you did a good job if it doesn't howl in the first 500 miles you should be good 👍

Real happy to see you and your dad working together. Everyone safe and healthy Merry Christmas all

Machining = subtraction. Spray Welding = addition.

Thank you for metric. Enjoy your videos. Thanks

Good evening Steve! Merry Christmas to you and your family.

My apologies Steve, I neglected to include in my first Comment that is was an excellent video as always and *Thank You!* 👍

Received my Yukon 4:10 gear set for the front axle of my '06 Dodge Ram 2500 5.9L Cummins 4x4 Stretched (8ft bed) Mega Cab. I had previously done the same ratio upgrade on the rear 11.5 AAM axle.

That is so neat having your dad there helping you and you getting it on film congratulations on the build looking forward to the front axle next thanks for sharing

Around 27:45 yes left hand threads always catch you out with a torque wrench, it's so wired in us to torque it clockwise! Good to see dad is OK have a good christmas and take care from the UK Cambridgeshire fens!

It’s great you encourage people to take on these jobs. You’re right, not all that hard to do. I do use crush sleeve eliminators I have found setup to be easier and if you ever need to pull a yoke for a seal replacement, just reassemble and tighten the nut. No fear of disturbing preload or position of the pinion in the case of wear.

Always great getting to work with your dad.

Steve! Please practice #1 safety protocol while operating your lathe.... We love watching your channel. I'm sure it's cold there and the hoody keeps you warm but it would be a shame if those strings or sleeves got caught in the chuck. It could KILL or MANGLE you.

New gears and bearings. Set on the tight side of the spec. Used stuff middle to the tail end of spec. Resistance should be applied to the the gear set when checking drive and coast side of the contact patch. Will your current setup cause a catastrophic failure, or increased wear rates. Nope. Will you notice the the looser tolerance behind a manual transmission? Nope.

they got you a sweatshirt too lol

Machining equipment always amazes me. Think of the accuracy of the equipment used to mak the equipment that he is using!

Great video Steve especially your Dad's help. You are extremely lucky to have your parents living so close by. Hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

This was a great episode and has been a great series. I'm now tempted to do my own mechanics after watching this series 😂😂

Nice Steve, I'm in the process of putting a 350 crate motor in my 84 square body. At 420 hp my axles are going to need an up grade!

Nice work, enjoyed learning about the rebuild. ## Please watch that hoodie string when you are at the Lathe. Tuck it in our pull it out...I know you are a professional but we all need to be safe for our family. 👍

Merry Christmas Steve and family. Would like to thank you for all of the great content here on RU-vid. Really looking forward to your vids all of the time! You may already know this but a good tip if you don't. If you take the bearing race, (inner or outer), and split one side with a thin grinding wheel they make a really good driver for the new race or cage because they will expand or contract if pressing or driving a bearing past a flush surface. It might not be as interesting as some lathe work but it is a time saver & during the course of my career as a diesel technician I have never damaged a race using this method. Another good tip for heating up any gears, races, or cages is to get an old french fryer, (got mine from the thrift store), fill it with motor oil & drop the bearings in for a short time just before you need to install them. Cheers and thanks again.

Merry Christmas, good to see you were not affected by the recent storms. Best wishes, Dean in Oxfordshire, UK.

I really enjoyed watching the care and patience you exercised in making sure that everything was as right as it could be on this job. I have come to expect nothing else on your excellent channel. Thank you for sharing.

hey Steve its really nice to see you at the lathe versus truck mechanic/body man

Hiya Steve

Can't wait to see how it turns out. Love those square body trucks.

Component recovery Good video 🇬🇧🙂

Remember when myself and others commented on the exposed foam board insulation on the ceiling? This is why: 20:30

How close were you to the tornado's? I thought about your now just finished shop rebuild when I saw the news. Good to see it's untouched! That was a huge amount off work you did by mostly yourself.

You got me good! I thought that was the new Timken you were hitting with the die grinder. Yikes!😬