Question on GM 10-bolts

[jimpaget]

Don't puke. I am trying to answer a question for someone on another board. For the first two years of the Isuzu Rodeo, they used the GM 3.1 engine and a GM 10-bolt rear axle. Are all GM 10-bolts c-clip type axles?

 

[crash2]

Don't puke. I am trying to answer a question for someone on another board. For the first two years of the Isuzu Rodeo, they used the GM 3.1 engine and a GM 10-bolt rear axle. Are all GM 10-bolts c-clip type axles?

Yes--I have never seen one with a tapered bearing like a non c-clip axle would be--at least on all the GM aplications that axle was used on...

 

[Halfrack]

on all the rodeos i have worked on they aren't 10 bolts because they have disc brakes on them

 

[Totalled]

I thought Rodeos had D44s?

 

[jimpaget]

The D44s started in '93 when they started using the Isuzu engine, at least on the 4X4 Rodeos. I believe that the 4X2 Rodeos kept using the 10-bolt for several years. Those are the only Rodeos with drums in the rear.

Some poor guy back east was trying to get the axles out of a '92 Rodeo while working in 6" of snow. He was trying to use the directions for the Isuzu 12-bolt axles, which are not c-clip. None of the usual Rodeo gurus were on the board, so I posted the question here.

I did find that there are a couple of companies that make c-clip eliminator axles, but that seemed like spreading some pretty expensive icing on a cow pie.

 

[Binder]

Are all GM 10-bolts c-clip type axles?

I don't know a thing about the Rodeo but not all GM 10 bolts are C clip. The early 10 bolt 8.2" IIRC is a non C clip design. I THINK that design was no longer made by the time the Rodeo was invented.