Great googly moogly, this is a bigger pain than I'd expected!
I'm re-installing the whole front differential/stub0shaft assembly on an '89 Runner. It was easy enough to get out, gravity was working in my favor. Seems like this should be easy... maybe I'm just a weenie...

Being a guy working alone in his garage... any tips/neat tricks on the logistics of getting this sucker all lined up and lifted back into place? The general problem is that it's just freaklin' heavy, and not much room to get one's body in around it to lift/line up/etc. Been using a floor jack, but b/c of the asymetry of it, it'll never lift straight up or balance well. Seems a tranny kjack would be ideal, but who has one of THOSe just laying around...

I have it re-attached to the driveshaft, and I removed the front X-member and attached it to the front of the diff, thinking it could be used to line it up. Seems if it was in place you could lift the diff up there anyway b/c the big bolt hole would get in the way anyhow. There some magical place to put the jack so that it will lift straight up?
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Maybe i just need to use more profaity....