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Gear pattern.
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beags86
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It looks ok to me. I've done a few in my day.
wasted wages
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I think it looks good... I would err on the side
of it being a little deeper than higher.. coast side looks good too...centered nicely...
I'd run it.
of it being a little deeper than higher.. coast side looks good too...centered nicely...
I'd run it.
Showed these pics to a bunch of people (strangers on the interwebs mostly, but a couple people I know, too) and that has been the general consensus. It's a touch deep; but send it.
I pressed on the pinion bearing, set up my solid spacer, put in my pinion seal and slinger, put that all in, dial in the pinion preload. Put the carrier in, torque the caps and the pattern was ****ed up and way different that what I posted.
I concluded something was defective and started measuring things. My carrier is ****ed up. I taco-ed it pressing off the right side bearing.
New diff has been ordered from Summit. Went with a Detroit Truetrac.
I pressed on the pinion bearing, set up my solid spacer, put in my pinion seal and slinger, put that all in, dial in the pinion preload. Put the carrier in, torque the caps and the pattern was ****ed up and way different that what I posted.
I concluded something was defective and started measuring things. My carrier is ****ed up. I taco-ed it pressing off the right side bearing.
New diff has been ordered from Summit. Went with a Detroit Truetrac.
wasted wages
1 ton status
Well, that sux....now you get to do it all over again...may be worth it to hone out a set of carrier and pinion bearings if this is something you plan on doing a few times, makes set up a lot easier...
The carrier bearings don't need to come off for any reason to do the set up. I bought and hogged out a pinion bearing for this. After pressing on the one that came with the kit because everything I knew, and was told, was to reuse the stock shim and send it. I'me gonna leave the pinion in there and see what the pattern looks like, but I am for sure gonna have to buy new carrier bearings.
if your going to do gears this is the ticket hands down .
This jobber with bolts in the side holes to pull the bearing off the ring gear side was the wrong way to do it. A cut-off wheel and an air hammer would have been a much righter answer. But either I didn't have those tools here, and was too lazy to run to work and get them, or I was too impatient to deal with my air compressor that is too small to run a cut off wheel.
Hind sight and what not.
I'm glad I was anal about making sure this was perfect, leading me to find this. Although had i followed the instructions i would have found this right away, as checking for run out is one of the first few steps in the instructions.
