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how is my first gear pattern on my 14bff? Need ideas FAST

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I fiannly installed my gears tonight and will be putting hte axle back in tomorrow. Tell me what you all think of the pattern before I button her up tomoorw and take it for a drive...

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The back-lash is dead-nutz at .008" (what is called for by the Precision Gear set I used)

Thanks,


Chris
 
thanks for the post...I need to get my ars in gear and do mine, maybe I'll do it this weekend. And i need to know the same thing your asking... /forums/images/graemlins/whistling.gif
 
Need a pic of the coast side too, but guessing I think the pinion is too close. Don't move it on my word though /forums/images/graemlins/histerical.gif /forums/images/graemlins/whistling.gif
 
Here is the coast side. I am not sure why it is not as good of a pattern as the drive side but...? I am going to run by work tomorrow and use a mic to figure out the thickness of the diff. pinion shims. Tonight I got to where I am now by "feeling" for the thicker or thinner shims...not the most precise method by a long shot. Also, when I ran the coast-side pattern, my helper (AKA: Drunken Friend) couldn't get a grip on the ring gear as well so there wasn't as much force to create the pattern....
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Still, what are your ideas?

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Chris
 
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What does the yellow stuff do?

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It is gear marking compound....it allows you to SEE what the contact pattern is between the pinion and ring gears...

Chris
 
You use a dial indicator. You, "rock" the ring gear until it contacts one surface of the pinion. Then you set it to zero and "rock" the ring gear until it hits the pinion the other way to see how much play there is between the gears. Hard to explain on here.
 
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I don;t mean to hijack but, how do you figure out what the backlash is?

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You need a dial indicator. Back-lash is the amount of free-play between the ring and pinion. You can increase backlash by moving the ring farther away from the pinion and vice versa. To determine what you back-lash is, you need to set a dial indicator up on the axle housing with the dial's "arm" up agains one of the teeth on the ring gear. You then pull the ring gear back a little and zero the indicator and then lightly push the ring gear in the opposite direction until you feel it mate up again with the pinion...That amount of free play is the back lash, which in my case was .008"

Chris
 
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