Posted by Don Williams [108.234.50.59] on Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 19:49:27 :
In Reply to: 76 Power Wagon front Diff.? posted by John Voros [108.26.191.248] on Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 08:29:54 :
Stock 76 would be full-time 203 transfer case and no locking hubs. Hub conversion kits and transfer case conversion kits (to make it part time) have gotten very hard to find. I have a 77 and plan to convert to a later model part-time (probably 208) transfer case and swap in a Dana 60F with locking hubs.
If you are not able to do a conversion right now, the bearings are not that bad to change. The job requires a special puller or some ingenuity. I went the ingenuity route. The replacement bearings I found were packaged such that both bearings and the spacer were included in one part number.