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Ray lives about 200 miles to the north of me up in Flagstaff so he made the trip down to Chandler and dropped off a beat up V6 3rd. The plan is to install a new PRECISION 529 with master kit and solid collar. |
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Some cosmetic damage from the pinion running way too loose. :) |
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This is the lowest quality gear out there....Genuine gear. Here are the markings to help identify them. Notice the sloppy mis-aligned alpha-numeric stampings. Sometimes it will be 5 digits. |
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I carefully removed one of the bearing caps and the adjuster was mis-aligned in the threaded slots. This is not good for the carrier bearing as it might shift some. |
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This is the side that was cross-threaded in the grooves. Damage to the spanner threads on this one was minimal this time. |
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This one takes the prize....I've never seen a pinion bearing this mangled :) Where are the rollers? |
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The bearing was partially welded to the flange....the flange is in the garbage. |
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The Genuine pinion had a shim of .244" and that's about right. |
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The EZ locker inside this V6 case will require an inspection... |
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All looked good....no broken pins and the rectangular clutch teeth were all in great shape. |
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Pins and springs in good shape. |
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Both the ring and the case surface get the flat file to check for burrs. |
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Using the dial indicator with magnetic base, I checked run-out and it was less than .002 which is good. |
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The new V6 master kit... |
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Shown here is the Precision gear and the solid collar from Marlincrawler.com |
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The ring gear went on tight....the press and a couple pieces of wood made it easy. |
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The master kit from PORC has the high quality 10.9 grade ring gear bolts. The master kits from ringpinion.biz also have these bolts. The bolts all saw 75 ft/lbs and red loctite as usual. |
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Markings found on the Precision gears...the old Precision gears that I remember had the "PG" emblem on them. Although these do set up nice, I still prefer the old 'original' version as my all-time favorite. |
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Somewhat deep. |
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To change to a thinner shim, a complete breakdown is needed. |
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Much better and only 3 thou less than before. |
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good |
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Final pinion pre-load ended up at 10 inch/pounds. It's nice to have the right torque wrench and it was only $36. |
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The new nut has red loctite and about 200 ft/pounds. |
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I like to engrave the ring gear with critical info. |
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Done! |
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