[LordNatedawg]

Slowly fixing problems as they arise on my truck. Today was replacing the stretched pinion yoke. The old yoke was allowing the driveshaft u-joint to bounce and it was causing a major vibration while driving. After the replacement the truck drives noticeably smoother. Although there are other vibrations present that I will need to track down. My u-joints are all tight. The carrier bearing visually looks okay, but I may take my drive line to a shop to have that replaced.

The other items I need to fix are my brakes. My front brakes are hot spotted from past brake fires. And my rear brakes are not adjusting evenly. The right drum is either over adjusting, or the left drum isn't adjusting. I loosened the right side and tightened up the left to make them even. I will recheck them after a while to see if the problem reappears.

Lastly, I had to bypass the fuel gauge in my cluster. It is stuck reading 1/4 no matter how much fuel is present. I wired in an aftermarket fuel gauge for now, but I would really like to get the factory gauge functional again. It is capable of sweeping from full to empty, but when sending any signal it will only read 1/4. The aftermarket gauge is working, which tells me that the sending unit is not the issue.