21 December 2016 - general stuff

After I installed the u-joints, I noticed there was very littel free play in the joint rotation of each of the u-joints.  I thought maybe I had not properly installed the hardware so I took the driveshaft to a local transmission shop.  The owner showed me that although the u-joints were properly installed, the bearing cups were not completely seated and that was causing the apparent binding.  To properly seat the u-joint bearing cups the mechanic used a hammer to tap the u-joint collars at each end of the driveshaft.  Doing that released the tension the bearing cups were under and properly seated the bearing cups allowing the u-joints significantly improved movement.

• Tightened/torqued the sway bar mounting brackets and end links
• torqued the lower control arms to 85 ft-lbs
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TODO for tomorrow:

• install transmission vacuum hard line and rubber hose to vacuum modulator
• install shifter linkage
• install driveshaft and torque to specs