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Originally Posted by straight6chevyguy
I will probably have to pull it all apart sometime and have a look I guess.
I'm just a little scared of what I might find lol.
Thank you guys for the help. I will keep you posted on whatever ends up happening.
And if anybody else has any input, please comment!
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Well, if you keep driving it with a bad TO bearing you may ruin the fork and the pressure plate (ask me how I know this
).
Once you get the transmission out, you will want to look at
all the parts in there and replace anything suspect: clutch disc for sure and maybe the pressure plate, in addition to the TO bearing (pretty much certainly your problem if you get noise when you push the clutch pedal down).
Anyway, you probably have a one piece bell housing and transmission which sucks because on the older trucks you could just slide back the transmission far enough to remove/replace the bearing on the input shaft. I did that on my old C-50; I just cut a big block of wood from a log to support the transmission at about its normal height, and did all the work through the opening with the dust cover removed (actually it was long gone
).
Just be glad you have a 2wd so you don't have to pull the transfer case
