Doing brakes on the truck.
I removed the 8 bolts on left rear axle flange and a ring that was held in place on the end of the came off once all of the 8 bolts were off. Then I pulled the axle out.
On the inside of the axle flange there was an aluminum gasket. This gasket was cracked straight across on one side.
The parts man/grandson of the original owner in a store that is open since 1948 and specializes in getting old hard to find parts, said that I will not be able to get new aluminum gaskets for the axle ends and to use gasket paper.
He gave me the paper for free to make my own gaskets.
Will paper gaskets work?
Does anyone still sell those aluminum gaskets?
Now today I started to do the brakes on the right rear. Again I undid the 8 axle flange bolts and a metal ring/lock plate came off.
So I removed the right rear axle and I am cleaning off the axle when I noticed a second ring/lock plate was still stuck onto the outside of the right rear axle flange.
So why did the right side axle have 2 ring/lock plates on the outside of the axle flange and the left side only had 1?
Also the right side aluminum gasket has a partial crack starting on the outside edge. So I will have to make a paper gasket for that side as well.
Sum up will paper gaskets replace the aluminum gasket on the axles, and why does the right axle have 2 ring/lock plates and the left axle only had 1 ring/lock plate?
Last edited by 32vld; 05/25/2015 9:30 PM.
