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    '05 LGT 5MT & 2004 F-150 Supercrew 4
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    Hunting, Shooting, Fishing
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  1. Just keep an eye on it. If it's jacked, you're gonna know pretty quick. You'll end up with a gear oil leak PDQ. If you were relatively gentle when you removed the original shaft and re-stabbed the new one you could be ok. No way to know until you drive it a little.
  2. The best deal going around here is Carquest. I've picked up 2 from them. The 2nd one was on Friday. ~$74 and they have had them in stock both times.
  3. Yeah, I was thinking that was a "rattle" which I have as well, but this is mechanical.
  4. Sorry for the late response guys. Went down to the coast for a couple of days and I'm just now getting back online. I'm sure you guys are right about #1. I believe that it is in fact the blower. I think that it chirps when it's running then when you shut it off, after it spins down it starts to go quiet, then all I can assume is that it start to freewheel from incoming air from the road and starts to chirp again? Just a guess. The latter noise, who the heck knows. Something that is probably under vacuum until you shut the car off. Not sure. Meanwhile I'll do some checking on how much of a PITA it is to replace the blower. Unfortunately I now have a howling noise under the hood when the car is cold. Sounds like a pulley or idler that needs to be lubed. After it's warm, no prob. Oh well, atleast it's paid for. lol Shotokan, thanks for the link. I couldn't find anything on a search but that's definitely it and is basically what I suspected, only I didn't know the technicalities of it.
  5. So I've got a relatively recent development on the '05 LGT. I've got two new noises from the dash that I can't nail down. These are not rattles. Whatever they are they're mechanical or similar in nature. I searched the forum but maybe my terms were no good because I couldn't really find anything that matched. Noise 1 - This is an intermittent sound that I haven't been able to tie to the AC either. It's an intermittent chirp, that again, hate to coin some a silly animal reference but it literally sounds like a baby bird chirping lol. AC, recirc, no AC, I haven't been able to pin it down to any particular function within the dash itself. Noise 2 - Happens when you shut the car off. You a noise that sounds like a rodent is trying to scratch it's way out of the dash. It's very odd, and that's about the only way I know to describe it. Sounds like it's coming from right behind the radio/ac unit. It goes on for about 30 seconds or so, then it's done but it does it every time. AC, no AC, doesn't matter.
  6. lol Thank goodness I'm not the only one that feels this way. I paid roughly the same through Carquest and it comes with a lifetime warranty. Not only that, you don't have to get dirty. Why bother.
  7. You can take it off by hand but you have to bend it back straight where it's staked. You'll see where it has a little notch in it and the corners are folded over. However, if you have an impact wrench, it'll take it off regardless of whether you bend it back or not.
  8. We always referred to them as "bushing killers" or "bushing destroyers" when I was younger. If you can separate a join like that, any joint like that on any car without a separator fork, you'll be better off. That said, I still have one and most folks who do this kind of thing should have one in their toolbox... just in case.
  9. I'm also in the "replace the halfshaft" group. I can't get a new unit for $75-$80, it's about a 15 minute job to swap it out with air tools, and I don't have to get grease etc. all over myself and everything else. Plus, the replacement is warrantied.
  10. I had the same problem. I slid under the car and grabbed the halfshaft where my arms were in a good position to get good leverage then worked it back and forth while pushing it back into the gearbox as hard as I good. It didn't take too long to get it that way. You just have to fiddle with it.
  11. Considering the labor charge to replace and repack the boot, to me atleast it seems like it would be a lot easier just replacing the whole axle. A lot less messy too. To swap out an axle takes an hour, maybe less and you don't have to deal with all of the grease. Considering my car had about 75k on it anyway (not a lot in the overall scheme of things) it was a no brainer for me to just swap out the axle when the boot failed, and it was EASY! Now, assuming I don't start shelling out boots left and right, if it failed again in a year or two or whatever, I'd do the same thing again, i.e. the whole axle. I guess if I was in an area where the conditions were more conducive to causing the boots to crack/tear/whatever and I was having to do them more frequently, I'd go the route of just replacing the boot. However, if you're only talking about every 60-80k...
  12. Viss1, I'm guessing you probably trashed the outer seal, like I did. Seems to be relatively easy to do.
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