Spider gear fun

[grampahol]

I did get all the tools and replaced the bearings and got it running, but..the bearings I bought were slightly oversized sooooo..Back to the grinding noise. It runs OK and I did drive it to N Carolina and back last week to buy some equipment, but I'm going to do it all over again with different bearings. The replacements have a retainer ring that binds the outer axle flange a bit so I had to pound them in. Luckily I have the slide hammer and the axle pulling adapter. I'm just hoping it hasn't scored the axle flange too much. I don't want to have to replace the actual axles..  Another thing is someone had done this previously so when I pulled the bearings I found a deep gouge in the axle housing. Evidently they pulled the originals with a crow bar or something.. There's always some unwanted surprise in used vehicles somewhere..