Yep, I have 3.73 stock and 4.10 would with the 30.5" or so tires would put me back almost exactly to stock with the 3.73 and 215/70-16 tires.

Remove the passenger seat, four nuts.

Aw shoot, T.Low was a great guy and his van the inspiration for my van as well.

While not knowing him personally, my experiences on the forums mirrored yours Mike. Such a terrible disease, I feel for his family and what they are going through. Godspeed T.Low, fellow Astrofarian.

Man, reminds me of my story with the driver's side cv axle and stub axle being stuck in it. The c-clip slipped out of the groove and no amount of tapping, pounding or pulling would remove the stub axle. I finally squirted Dawn dish soap inside and was able to tap the cv axle off the stub axle in the...

Doesn't look familiar to me at all, I wouldn't worry about it too much. Good luck.

Those are interesting numbers for sure, thank you!

I just ordered and received my 22-687HD springs for around $250 shipped:

https://www.generalspringkc.com/Product ... e=22-687HD

That's great about the gearing and disappointing about the locker! Hopefully you can get some resolution from your installer on it seeing you didn't exactly get the one you wanted.

Curious what kind of weight/bias/overload you're seeing on the scale?

How're the new gears treating you?

That's the tire and size I'm running now with 3.73 gears. Wouldn't want to run that size with 3.42!

Yep, started using the longer filter like what came on my '97 on my '04 when I got it and noticed it had the short filter.

Cool dude, can't wait to see it. Start a thread for the build!

Yes, probably. The '03-05 knuckles are different.

Is you van RWD or AWD?

Feels like you're overthinking things a bit as any decent brand replacement fuel pump should see you though a 100k miles or so.

I hear that, it can be a pain to get in there with a lifted van!

It's actually really easy to replace that tubing and you can pickup the molded vacuum tube piece at most laps.

Not sure if you read this thread: https://www.astrosafari.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=4468