[Bob Carriere]

...... never seen so many shims...... lucky we had tied each cover with the relevant stack of shims.......

We worked on the speedometer drive centere cover... no sweat.

The we tackled the front axle disconnect tower or protrusion that was previously assembled...... had to cut new gaskets...... and clean the shims from some surface rust on 600 grit sand paper.

Remember we are using new bearing and new races...... I tried to assemble with just the two thickest shims...... bearing were to tighly loaded to turn by and....... it was not until all the shims and paper gasket was installed...... as per the manual..... that the shaft woudl turn free by hand.... took the flange off and installed a new seal...lightly oiled....... tighetened the big 1 1/2 inch nut and installed a new cotter pin.... one part done......