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Thomas from Picayune, Mississippi, has been pushing his 42" tires with 410 gears. He says it was
no fun ;) .....this is on a carbed 5 speed truck. The plan is to install high quality Precision 571 gears into
a regular "4 cyl 3rd" to get his over-all gearing back in line. |
Thomas couldn't find anyone local that was capable of doing a decent gear install so he found me in cyber space. New bearings and a solid collar will enhance this install. These 571 gears will last a long time inspite of 42" meats. |
Step one is to tear down and clean the open 3rd... |
Taking the old carrier bearings off is 'cake' with the right puller. I can't say enough
about this OTC-4520 puller. These pullers are on Ebay.com.
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The not so glorious job of cleaning everything is done with the high speed wire wheel and lotsa starting fluid. |
Even the threaded ring gear holes get cleaned. The ring was briefly filed to insure a flat surface. |
Here, I'm using red Loctite on the clean threads and 75 ft/lbs torque. |
The pinion is installed first....a .093" pinion depth shim will be the first try and .066" for the solid collar shim. I had to break it down only once and change the collar shim to .062" and then the pinion pre-load was at a nice 9 in/lbs. |
Note to self....keep gloves in the clear while tapping the bearings down..... now I get to use the puller again :) |
Some shops might say this is good enough. Wash the paint off and button it up. Customer will never know the difference. That's not the way I operate. This drive side pattern is way deep. |
The coast confirms that... |
I made a big jump to 080 and still very deep. |
It's deep. |
Went down to 074 and getting close....still deep though. |
Coast side still agrees on being deep.... |
Beautiful..... |
Super NICE. |
That great pattern means nothing if the carrier bearing pre-load is set low. Sometimes, I use the torque wrench to make sure it's at least 100 ft/lbs or so. I also use the hammer to rap on the bearing caps to equalize the bearing tension. |
The new factory seal has a liberal coating of gear oil to prevent a dry start-up. |
Bullseye really is a cool bangal cat. |
A nice coat of black paint....a new flange....and a ZUK tag. |
Ready for the trip back to Mississippi. This particular box has about 4 or 5 layers of cardboard inside. No way this 3rd will break thru. |
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