It's about fifteen miles to the city, would I be doing serious harm to the
gears driving it there like it is now? Would removing the front drive shaft
be necessary? Would driving without a front drive shaft harm the viscous
coupling in the transfer case (NP249)?

/Peter

"Mike Romain" > wrote in message
...
> His nut is still turning so I wouldn't suspect a bottom yet.
>
> Mike
> 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
> 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
>
> "L.W.(ßill) Hughes III" wrote:
> >
> > Imagine the yoke to be a different length, shorter and nut bottoms
> > out: http://www.billhughes.com/dana30/
> > God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
> > http://www.billhughes.com/
> >
> > Peter Pontbriand wrote:
> > >
> > > If the yokes differed in the thickness of the splined part, how would
that
> > > affect things? Would using a new crush sleeve solve such a problme?
> > >
> > > The pinion nut only turned 1/8 to 1/4 of a turn when going from 160 to
250+
> > > ft-lbs, I don't know if that is significant.
> > >
> > > /Peter