devlin c

According to the service manual you must replace the bolts,washers and nuts for drive axles and propeller shaft every time you remove them! So I am getting ready to remove my rear end to swap gears and was wondering if any one here has done this and reused the old bolts?

silverbullet_Z

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I reused them when I swapped out my open diff for a quaife LSD. I really dont think you need to but that's just my .02

devlin c

Cool how long ago did you remove yours or how many miles have you put on it since you did it?

silverbullet_Z

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I installed it this summer and I'd say I have over 3500 miles on it since then. I took it out to Zdayz in NC in the mountains/dragons tail and I came from MN which was a long haul no problems

devlin c

cool maybe i will just reuse them then

winchman

Some high-strength bolts which have been fully tightened can be used only once. Follow the manual, or you risk them failing.

drivessidewayz

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Your call. You could never have issues with them, they could fail immediately, or they could fail down the road when you're out on a trip. New bolts can also fail randomly as well, though less likely (in theory).

Perhaps change the question to a poll and ask how many people reused those bolts? /shrug just my 2 cents

terrasmak

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I've had my diff out 3 times now. First time was 3 years and 70k miles ago. Still havn't swapped out those bolts. But i did replace my ring gear bolts when i did the diff swap.

BonesZ33

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make sure you use loctite when dealing with anything that is rotating.