Coast Front Driveshaft Install
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Willard,
I have both front and rear Coast DS sitting in the shed along with rear upper control arms, sitting in the shed. I also keep going back and forth as to do it myself or not! If you are not one of the lucky ones it will cost close to having new pinion bearings installed, which I believe would require resetting the gears, and around here thats is $1,500 for both axles. The local 4wheelparts store toaled me $100 per DS.
I am hoping to mine will hold out till I regear next summer and have them install them then.
Good luck either way!
I have both front and rear Coast DS sitting in the shed along with rear upper control arms, sitting in the shed. I also keep going back and forth as to do it myself or not! If you are not one of the lucky ones it will cost close to having new pinion bearings installed, which I believe would require resetting the gears, and around here thats is $1,500 for both axles. The local 4wheelparts store toaled me $100 per DS.
I am hoping to mine will hold out till I regear next summer and have them install them then.
Good luck either way!
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Originally Posted by GunDude
Willard,
I have both front and rear Coast DS sitting in the shed along with rear upper control arms, sitting in the shed. I also keep going back and forth as to do it myself or not! If you are not one of the lucky ones it will cost close to having new pinion bearings installed, which I believe would require resetting the gears, and around here thats is $1,500 for both axles. The local 4wheelparts store toaled me $100 per DS.
I am hoping to mine will hold out till I regear next summer and have them install them then.
Good luck either way!
I have both front and rear Coast DS sitting in the shed along with rear upper control arms, sitting in the shed. I also keep going back and forth as to do it myself or not! If you are not one of the lucky ones it will cost close to having new pinion bearings installed, which I believe would require resetting the gears, and around here thats is $1,500 for both axles. The local 4wheelparts store toaled me $100 per DS.
I am hoping to mine will hold out till I regear next summer and have them install them then.
Good luck either way!
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I know it's pretty easy and everyone that has done it themselves says it was really easy but for $65 at my local shop, it was a no brainer and worth the $65...
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I agree with this... I only did it myself b/c I did the lift at the same time... I am not above paying a shop to do work when it comes out to less than 1 or 2 hours of shop rate, I don't bother doing things I find a PIA that a shop will do in a single hour like flush radiator, flush brake fluid, change brake pads etc... I do my own oil but thats just b/c I like to buy my own filter and oil and know its done right and with a lifted jeep it doesn't take very long
#20
Your local shop probably just torqued it to 160 and called it a day too.
Just for the record I was nervous too, followed the WOL write up and 7000 miles later its still holding together...but maybe I'm just lucky. LOL!
FWIW: You should at least look under there and figure out how to do it, just in case something happens on the trail.
Good luck!
Just for the record I was nervous too, followed the WOL write up and 7000 miles later its still holding together...but maybe I'm just lucky. LOL!
FWIW: You should at least look under there and figure out how to do it, just in case something happens on the trail.
Good luck!