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Torque Differential Cover and Reassemble Suspension

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Turbo Yukon Race Week Prep: Putting Logan To The Test...Putting Uncle Rob's Rear End Back Together!

What happens here

After the RTV sealant has had sufficient time to set (approximately 15 minutes), proceed to fully torque the differential cover bolts to the manufacturer's specifications. A torque wrench is essential for this step to ensure proper tightness without overtightening or under-tightening. Once the differential cover is securely torqued, reassemble the rear suspension components. Start by installing the panhard bar, which may require some force or careful alignment due to rust and the angle of the suspension components. The sway bar links and control arms are also reinstalled, ensuring all bolts are properly aligned and hand-tightened before final torquing. Note that some components, like the sway bar links, may have Allen key openings to prevent the shaft from spinning during tightening.

Goal: Securely torque the differential cover and fully reassemble the rear suspension components.

Tools and materials

  • Breaker Bar — Loosening stubborn rusted bolts
  • Control Arms — Reinstallation into the rear suspension
  • Impact Gun DeWalt — Speeding up bolt tightening/loosening (use with caution for final torque)
  • Panhard Bar — Reinstallation into the rear suspension
  • Penetrating Oil — Loosening rusted bolts
  • Sockets — Fitting bolts for differential cover and suspension components
  • Sway Bar Links — Reinstallation into the rear suspension
  • Torque Wrench — Ensuring differential cover bolts are tightened to specification

What they say

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torque the housing bolts down before this gets put up because if it's up here we'll have a harder time getting to all of the bolts so let me look up the torque spec real quick i think the rtd is set for long enough that we can get it done and then turn it turn it slow until it you know you watch the red on there it might need to have more pre-tightening before it actually gets to a point where it starts to torque is it getting somewhere now yeah keep going there very good yay you have to go to the top one good yep right there so you know what you're doing i told you guys i can't keep her away from the wire wheel if it's going to keep falling off why would i not just get it off that's a fair point oh you did falling on me while i'm touching it so i might as well all right you ready to put it on yeah so excited well the bolts uh down there i don't know where the the nut went i lost my nut you lost the nut first you fist uncle rob's rear end and then you lose his knot what are we gonna do well i don't think it was accidentally proven somewhere this is like the eternal struggle of every single person to ever work on a car ever i don't i keep thinking this is the nut but this is the foot from the c-clamp what did you do with it me yeah well i'm gonna put this part in now yeah yeah you could do that oh yeah it takes up to push on a little bit here i'll i'll just jiggle it and you wedge it in okay well now let's just find it and we gotta find the nut you know what that that bar does that's what keeps the rear end in its spot because the these two arms the lower control arm and the upper control arm are straight so there's nothing to keep the rear end from walking side to side that's what this does so when it goes up and down it has a little bit of a motion to it which is why when you pull the bolt out it wants to hang a little bit this way yeah this one takes the manhandling but you're doing a good job yes push up on it i'll get it that's not a good place for that i'll just hold on to that for now maybe i should put the tripod under here while we're reefing on this thing yeah you just kind of have to bend that back and push it up at the same time it's stupid do you want to bend it like i don't need to crack this too do you want to tell these people a story about the gym this morning the dumbbells yeah oh i accidentally threw a 20 pound dumbbell on my phone it shattered my screen and then we took it to the store to get fixed and let's not fix that yeah yeah though…

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