Hi Dusty,
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried Permatex green - which is a supposedly non removable sleeve dressing the last time the race spun off. The guy at the machine shop I took it to to have the race pressed back on told me it was pretty loose and he didn't have to put much pressure at all on it to press it back on. We cleaned it up with acetone, put on the sleeve dressing and pressed the race back on. I let it sit up for a week before reassembly - lasted 3000 miles. Let me tell you, it's no fun pulling a rear axle on the side of the road with the truck sitting on a bottle jack - good way to get squashed like a bug.
Is the Loctite 680 a superior product to the Permatex sleeve dressing? Looks like Locktite 648 has an even greater shear strength than 680. Anybody here have any experience using that? I hate to pitch this axle - the race is in good shape and the splines are perfect - I bought it NOS about 25 years ago and have been running it ever since. If I could just keep that sucker in place once and for all I would be one happy trucker.
Last edited by David Bush; 09/17/2014 3:14 PM.
