what exactly is wrong here why my axel is not centered in the seal?? The seals are all new when I swapped transmission. I heard that u need a spacer when the ac bracket is removed am I missing the bracket or the spacers?

Yes Steven you need spacers for the jack shaft. Without the a/c bracket, the half shaft will be cocked in towards the block and the seal won't seal, or IDT it will. Let me see if I can find some pictures for some help.
Marty

I hope this will show you the correct orientation
It's why we leave the bracket on or get some washers and space the forward bolt out. I can get some rough thicknesses if you need them.
Marty

1990TSIAWDTALON said:

I hope this will show you the correct orientation
It's why we leave the bracket on or get some washers and space the forward bolt out. I can get some rough thicknesses if you need them.
Marty

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Ok but like my axel shaft is already pushed out to the firewall and more spacers will just twist it even farther away making more angle? It's not centered in the axle seal or the bearing so hmmm

Do you have the mount upside down?

Yours needs to look like mine. Look at my a/c bracket and how it keeps the jackshaft straight.

Ah I see I will look closer see if its missing

What did the factory use for a spacer when there was no A/C? Or did all 1g AWDs get A/C as standard equipment?

They had a metal "washer" that was in that place like STM or ExtremePSI offer but theirs are aluminum. I run that washer on my Blue Talon.
I honestly don't know if any came without A/C, but a proper stack of washers that measure close to 8.9mm or .350" is all that is needed, then you can toss the bulky bracket. I just went out and measured it.

I use head bolt washers for the spacer.

While your there did you replace the carrier bearing? It's not that bad to do and good piece of mind. I replaced mine with a sealed unit.

So without the washer dose it bolt on crooked and that's my issue of why it wont sit straight in the trans and the bearing? It looked like in your pic the bracket only goes to one hole of the bearing mount the other is tight to the block. I remember it was a real pain to get them bolts started when I did my trans swap

Yes only the "front" bolt needs a spacer. Could your mount be on backwards for any reason? I can show you a regular half shaft not mounted if need be.

1990TSIAWDTALON said:

Yes only the "front" bolt needs a spacer. Could your mount be on backwards for any reason? I can show you a regular half shaft not mounted if need be.

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Is that even possible? I dident remove anything just pulled it out and bolted it back in. Maybe latter this week I can put it up on Ramps and figure it out. I only drive weekends and it's not affecting much the seal might seep a little but no drips or anything

Steve92talon said:

Is that even possible? I dident remove anything just pulled it out and bolted it back in. Maybe latter this week I can put it up on Ramps and figure it out. I only drive weekends and it's not affecting much the seal might seep a little but no drips or anything

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The problem with leaving it like that is that you could either break the block right there or break or bend the bracket for the bearing holder, that's putting a lot of stress on those items being bolted down like that, not to mention the damage you can do to the transmission pulling sideways on the diff like that, everything is on a bind right now.

Murdertalon said:

While your there did you replace the carrier bearing? It's not that bad to do and good piece of mind. I replaced mine with a sealed unit.

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Can you get the bearing alone? is it a press in unit? Ive never needed to replace the jackshaft carrier on any of my DSMs but just noticed mine is flinging grease just a bit. Mines 2g though.

I did it on my 2g it's a standard bearing, pop out the factory one and pop in the next one I got one from Napa cheap. the factory one was not a sealed unit, I changed to sealed unit and used one of the dust shields for good measure.

steve said:

2G AWD

MR165048 Front Center Bearing
MB837577 Rear Center Bearing

1G AWD & GVR4

MB505495 front and rear

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have Napa cross reference the bearing part number and they should have one that will fit I think the 16504 is the same for the half shaft bearing