It took me and a buddy about 12 hours. I started on friday and 4p.m. and worked until 1 a.m. Then we started again at noon saturday and finished at about 3. I used air tools so it would probably take a little longer without them.
No speacial tools really needed except for a deep 32mm for the axle nut. Then you need 12mm-22mm sockets and a handful of wrenches. I ended up using standard wrenches and nut metric and never came close to stripping anything. We did it with two jacks and two jack stands. Probably could get away with one jack easily. It really wasnt hard at all. The hardest part was breaking the caliper bolts loose those suckers were tighter then the big axle nut. Had to use a pretty big breaker bar for that one. Other then that is pretty easy just time consuming.
I never took my axles out of my front diff like the insturctions say. Nor did i unbolt it from the front driveshaft and take it out. Its just as easy to lower it into the new mounting tabs then to take it out and raise it. I probably saved a half an hour by not taking it out. Also I would recommend bending the mounting tabs a tad bit wider so it slips in easier.
All of the nuts and bolts are labled pretty well so no worries about grabbing the wrong one.
No speacial tools really needed except for a deep 32mm for the axle nut. Then you need 12mm-22mm sockets and a handful of wrenches. I ended up using standard wrenches and nut metric and never came close to stripping anything. We did it with two jacks and two jack stands. Probably could get away with one jack easily. It really wasnt hard at all. The hardest part was breaking the caliper bolts loose those suckers were tighter then the big axle nut. Had to use a pretty big breaker bar for that one. Other then that is pretty easy just time consuming.
I never took my axles out of my front diff like the insturctions say. Nor did i unbolt it from the front driveshaft and take it out. Its just as easy to lower it into the new mounting tabs then to take it out and raise it. I probably saved a half an hour by not taking it out. Also I would recommend bending the mounting tabs a tad bit wider so it slips in easier.
All of the nuts and bolts are labled pretty well so no worries about grabbing the wrong one.