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I didn’t know you knew my kids.

If I ever buy the tool, I’ll lend it to you when you want it.

I’ll add that clearly I’m an idiot on Thursday mornings.

Oh yeah. Jesus. Not nearly enough coffee.

Once you’re there, it’s hard to stop.

I fought with similar ideas, and used more than one cup during the pressing. It super sucked.

And yes, the belly skids are expensive. But not as expensive as a transmission, oil pan, etc.

I highly recommend going with the diff skids and spacers. The cheap spacer allows you to use the Oem diff cover. And with their skids, the diff cover is never going to get touched. Mine still look brand new and it’s a heavily wheeled 2021.

The problem with these is the taper on the lower C. Most of the rentals, harbor freight, parts stores presses don’t have a cup that matches that taper well. Next time I’ll spend the 6-700 on the Matco pivoting press. No question.

The ball joints are a job. @Shibbyjeep, @Stan H, and many more can attest to that. If metalcloak sold knuckles with ball joints installed, I’d buy them. Put it that way.

I started with their diff skids. Still have them. Tanks. Now I’m waiting for their new rock sliders.

Uh oh. You’re addicted. I can’t recommend next venture skids highly enough. And their differential skids are unstoppable.

I tried to follow them the first time. Then I just decided to figure it out myself. :)

Very cool. Yeah. They looked like part of the shocks.

What are the bilstein items with the switches? Curiosity might have killed the cat, but it keeps me alive with an empty wallet.

You’ll love them. For next time, try putting the three unit bearing bolts in some of the way. Then instead of pushing the bell housing into the boot, you can pull the boot over the bell housing with two hands. It’s worked great for me several times, including just after rebuilding them last summer.

That was definitely clocked a bit off before. Great work fixing it. Looks great.

Both big on our list of we can someday. Flights are a crazy amount of cash with 4 people.

A couple offroad vendors want over $700 for adhesive rocker plates, with a single bend in them. I don’t get those prices.

Flexing was my issue for sure. Absolutely unsafe to press bearings to a carrier. Maybe I’ll add some reinforcements. Great idea. Thanks.