blain1976
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Hey everyone,
I just did a new differential install (same 3.92 as original).
I bought the Spicer carrier and Motive Gears along with the Timken bearings.
I changed out the crush sleeve for solid spacer (crush sleeve eliminator kit)
Everything seemed to go great. I spent almost a week on the install working on it in the evenings after work as well as last Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Monday after Easter.
I made Setup bearings and got a nice Gear mark pattern after adjusting the shims behind the inner pinion bearing.
I then moved to the solid spacers and adjusted it to where I got 20 in/lbs of torque on the nut.
On my final install I had .007 backlash, 25 in/lbs on the pinion nut, 210 ft/lbs torque on the pinion nut (a new pinion nut from the set up). Red locktite on the Pinion nut.
Torqued the Carrier bearing caps to 75 ft/lbs with blue locktite
about 125 ft/lbs on the adjusters.
I loosened the carrier bearing caps every time I made an adjustment to the adjusters and rotated the gears 10 times in each direction.
After everything was put together, I rotated the gears by hand several times to coat everything in oil.
I added the additive for limited slip.
When I first turned out of my driveway, I could hear hear the clutch plates chattering
I took my truck to a parking lot close by that I could do figure 8 patterns and did 10 figure 8s and my truck was quiet after that. Seemed great. Drove smooth and I was one happy camper.
Then when I turned into my neighborhood,.......CLUNK!
My heat dropped. Something came loose it felt like.
I still don't know yet what went wrong. I'll hopefully know more tomorrow when I tear into it. But any thoughts??
Man I hope everything is not messed up, but I have a feeling with these gears it doesn't take much to mess everything up.
I'll post back tomorrow or this weekend once I know a little more.
I just did a new differential install (same 3.92 as original).
I bought the Spicer carrier and Motive Gears along with the Timken bearings.
I changed out the crush sleeve for solid spacer (crush sleeve eliminator kit)
Everything seemed to go great. I spent almost a week on the install working on it in the evenings after work as well as last Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Monday after Easter.
I made Setup bearings and got a nice Gear mark pattern after adjusting the shims behind the inner pinion bearing.
I then moved to the solid spacers and adjusted it to where I got 20 in/lbs of torque on the nut.
On my final install I had .007 backlash, 25 in/lbs on the pinion nut, 210 ft/lbs torque on the pinion nut (a new pinion nut from the set up). Red locktite on the Pinion nut.
Torqued the Carrier bearing caps to 75 ft/lbs with blue locktite
about 125 ft/lbs on the adjusters.
I loosened the carrier bearing caps every time I made an adjustment to the adjusters and rotated the gears 10 times in each direction.
After everything was put together, I rotated the gears by hand several times to coat everything in oil.
I added the additive for limited slip.
When I first turned out of my driveway, I could hear hear the clutch plates chattering
I took my truck to a parking lot close by that I could do figure 8 patterns and did 10 figure 8s and my truck was quiet after that. Seemed great. Drove smooth and I was one happy camper.
Then when I turned into my neighborhood,.......CLUNK!
My heat dropped. Something came loose it felt like.
I still don't know yet what went wrong. I'll hopefully know more tomorrow when I tear into it. But any thoughts??
Man I hope everything is not messed up, but I have a feeling with these gears it doesn't take much to mess everything up.
I'll post back tomorrow or this weekend once I know a little more.