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nkldrgr

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Now that I bought my dana 60 F with 4.10s, I need to swap the 3.73 out of my 14 bolt ff. Is that hard to do??? I am thinking about buying a whole carrier and pinion support and just replacing the whole thing. I have never done gears before, so I don't know how well that will work. How tough is it to change 14 bolt gears? Got a set of 4.10s?
 
Not to sound like a jerk, but if you have to ask about changing gears then it probably isn't a job for you to do. I have read how to do it several times, yet I have never attempted it yet.
 
You didn't sound like a jerk. I am a master mechanic with patches and all, but I have never swapped gears in a 14 bolt FF. I don't work for a shop that has all the tools that I'm used to using when swapping gears. I guess my question really is: If I find a set of 410s on a carrier and a pinion with a support, can I bolt them straight in? Will that be close enough, or will the backlash be wrong?
 
You're trying to tell me that you're an ASE certified mechanic and you don't know how to check backlash in an axle? I find that hard to believe.
 
its not a matter of checking backlash...i am wondering if "plug and play" with a used setup. If not, then I will take the time to just do a whole new setup. I have gone the used route with Dana 44 axles, but never even touched gears in a 14 bolt. Not to say that I couldn't figure it out, just hoped someone had done it before. Thats all.
 
I did my fist set of gears last fall out of the d44, spider gears were trashed and the pieces left over tore up the ring and pinion gears. I needed bearing pullers a 4ft cheater bar. dial indicator, bearing press, time and patience. It took me about 6 hours but I was EXTREMELY carefull about doing it. Randy's ring and Pinion sells a video that demonstrates how to change them out. With the time and money I spent I could have had a pro do it, but now I have all of the tools myself and I am able to change them out any time I need to, as well as my buddies trucks, bartering skills is a good thing about 4 wheeling.
 
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