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10-22-2014, 12:23 AM
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1982 28' Airstream 280
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There is a thin packing nut on the end of the sleeve that pulls off of the spline. You can barely see it in your picture. It holds a felt type packing to keep the grease in and dirt out of the spline. Use channel locks gently to unscrew it, as it is very thin. Sometimes you can turn it with your hand but yours looks pretty cruddy. Once the packing nut is off you can remove the rear drive shaft.
Here is a generic picture.
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10-26-2014, 08:53 PM
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The top photo.. is that a pillar block.??.. i wonder if that bearing is going..?
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It's either called the driveshaft support or center or carrier bearing. I was wondering if it was going bad as well.
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10-26-2014, 08:55 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Smartstream
There is a thin packing nut on the end of the sleeve that pulls off of the spline. You can barely see it in your picture. It holds a felt type packing to keep the grease in and dirt out of the spline. Use channel locks gently to unscrew it, as it is very thin. Sometimes you can turn it with your hand but yours looks pretty cruddy. Once the packing nut is off you can remove the rear drive shaft.
Here is a generic picture.
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Thanks! I'll give that a try!
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10-27-2014, 12:10 AM
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I took my roof fans apart to clean them. They were pretty dirty after a couple of years and two trips to Burning Man. They look brand new again!
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10-27-2014, 07:09 AM
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1989 34.5' Airstream 345
Ebro
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Hey Dean, I just went thru the drive train on my 345. And found the soft material surrounding the carrier bearing had deformed and allowed some movement of the otherwise fine bearing within the bracket. Replaced those and the u joints and ended up much smother running. Important to mark the splined joints while disassembling to allow correct orientation for reassembly .
I do enjoy following along on your projects, quite inspirational thanks for posting.
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10-27-2014, 06:30 PM
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Originally Posted by tevake
Hey Dean, I just went thru the drive train on my 345. And found the soft material surrounding the carrier bearing had deformed and allowed some movement of the otherwise fine bearing within the bracket. Replaced those and the u joints and ended up much smother running. Important to mark the splined joints while disassembling to allow correct orientation for reassembly .
I do enjoy following along on your projects, quite inspirational thanks for posting.
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Hi Richard,
I'm glad you have enjoyed following along.
Next time around, I'm going to give Smartstream's suggestion on removing the rear driveshaft and I think I just might replace all u joints and the center bearing and support just to be on the safe side! Yup, I did mark the driveshafts, etc. so I could clock them the same way when putting all back together.
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10-28-2014, 11:05 AM
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Interior Photos
I finally took the "good" camera to the ranch and cleaned up the MH enough to take some nice shots of the interior.
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10-28-2014, 11:07 AM
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Photos continued...
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10-28-2014, 07:46 PM
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Very Nice! I lobe what you did to the interior!
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10-28-2014, 08:42 PM
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Drooling over your moho!! So beautiful.
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10-29-2014, 04:13 AM
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Pretty pretty
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10-29-2014, 03:59 PM
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1989 34.5' Airstream 345
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Hi, I'm new here and this thread is great!
I have a pair of 345 s and am in S.F.
I will post some pics soon. Wish I had found this site yrs ago.
Nice work!
Liam
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10-29-2014, 05:28 PM
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2016 Interstate Grand Tour Ext
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Gorgeous work!
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10-31-2014, 02:11 PM
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Looks great.
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10-31-2014, 03:48 PM
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Chestfield
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Very nice
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11-06-2014, 03:15 PM
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Thanks everyone! I really do appreciate the comments!
I'm packing the truck today and we are heading up north in the morning to begin our MH trip to Yosemite!
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11-06-2014, 03:34 PM
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Can I suggest another one of those awesome time lapse videos of the drive there... just LOVED it.
Lookin good!
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11-06-2014, 03:50 PM
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Can I suggest another one of those awesome time lapse videos of the drive there... just LOVED it.
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Absolutely! I have all the cameras ready to go!
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11-07-2014, 11:18 AM
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What do you use to time lapse?
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11-07-2014, 11:14 PM
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What do you use to time lapse?
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So you want my secrets! LOL
I used Pinnacle Studio in the past and I'm using Adobe Elements now. They all have fast motion effects that you can apply to your video.
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