Ford dual tank silliness

Uh, alligators, Jim?

Bill is known to say "up to my A-hole in alligators"
...meaning wading through a dangerous situation mired in "muck".

(This is to not trigger Gary or upset the 'family oriented' audience)
As you might believe of a crabby old truck driver with a New York mob background my daily conversation would make a sailor blush

Yeah I deal with more truckers than any other group of people. Even mechanics. Georgia seems to breed a lot of em. Colorful language they have...

I don't know where Bill came up with that.
I assume in the USMC.
But it definitely fit my situation today, with a blown out knee and a blown up rear end.  🙄

Thanks!

You're very welcome!
I try to use my 'handicap' for good.😆
 I hope it helps!

Hope it's not a Chebby rear axle. I sell a lot of parts for those...

Ford 10.25
I blowed it up perty gud!  

Photos in the Whydtytt if you like.

Oh man, that's Lil' Red ain't it? (I have a rooster by that name)

Yessir!

🙄

There is a picture gallery on the site. If you go there pictures of a number of trucks are there including Darth.

Is Darth's pumpkin blown to smithereens?

Mat may be right.
There was some small thing banging around in there.
I didn't see it until I cleaned out my cover.

I need to pry the chunks out of the crown and get a better look at the carnage

No, Darth's was updated due to the left side wheel inner bearing seizing and galling the tube. I got a used axle from Pete's and used just the housing as it had a rusted 4.10 set in it. I used the guts from the 1990 F250 parts truck as it was a 3.55 limited slip. Due to the axle from Pete's being a 1993 or newer, it had the 3.5" wide rear brakes.

The one I completely rebuilt was my best friend's (we have been friends since 1972) used one he bought from Pete's for his 1995 F350 with the first gen Power Stroke 7.3L. He wanted rear disc brakes installed as he didn't like the stopping power. We took Darth to dinner one night when I was clearing out the house in NN because his had a trailer hooked up and to get his Corvette out involved moving that first. Since he knew the way and I didn't, I just threw him Darth's keys and said "you drive". First corner he nearly put us both through the windshield.

Possibly could have jammed in the gears causing catastrophic failure?

I don't think so.  🤷‍♂️
The Zf shifts well. I haven't blown a shift since I was a teenager (45 years ago)

I noticed a weepy pinion seal a while back.
I checked the lube. Made sure it was topped up and had the seal in hand waiting for a clear day when I wasn't literally exhausted.
Then one day I backed off to coast through an intersection.
Bang!
Skid...
Roll into a lot and look underneath.
Go back to the intersection to see that both wheels locked (this is an open diff)

Xxxx it, I've got to go.
I was very cautious from there on, but at 0-dark-30 one morning doing about 70 on the Parkway....
BOOM!  😳
And the driveshaft is flailing around!...
I dove to the right and rolled off a ramp.
I walked back to snatch the driveshaft from the center lane.
I looked for my hubcap but just went back to the truck, locked the hubs and got out of there before someone showed up.

I'll just keep driving until I can afford the grand worth of parts I need to put this thing back together.  😄

I didn't know you could drive with just the front that long.

it's not ideal yet if it is not fighting differential from the rear then the transfer case. is just running a front wheel drive.

mat in tn wrote

it's not ideal yet if it is not fighting differential from the rear then the transfer case. is just running a front wheel drive.

This....  

Oh ok. What about the turning issue? I've heard the transfer case doesn't like that.