Sinking Creek 4WD Association

alright so I finally caved and got the dial indicator, I had the backlash perfect at .008 from feel [yea bitches], so I tried again [3rd run] and coated the piss out of the teeth and put a good bit of drag on the ring gear and got this: looks like the pinion might be a bit too far away, lend me your opinion.

Front or rear??

On the drive side of the gears it looks good. If you move the pinion in it doesn't really need much at all. What you got is about just right.

I'd run it. Definitely fine if its in the front. I'd stay with what you have. If you try to mess with it, you may just make it worse and spend a lot of time trying to get it back to how you have it now.

It's pretty close and will probably work. However, you can move the pinion gear a couple thousandths and you'd be right on the money. It's better to not have the pinion too far out to start since under a load, the pinion gear tries to push away from the ring gear which will effectivly decrease your pinion depth. Also, isn't the backlash spec on that axle .006 to .008? I would set it at .006 because the backlash will always increase once the gears break in.

DethYota wrote:It's pretty close and will probably work. However, you can move the pinion gear a couple thousandths and you'd be right on the money. It's better to not have the pinion too far out to start since under a load, the pinion gear tries to push away from the ring gear which will effectivly decrease your pinion depth. Also, isn't the backlash spec on that axle .006 to .008? I would set it at .006 because the backlash will always increase once the gears break in.

6-10, I do have a few .0025 shims left, I'm just pretty hesitant to tear the whole thing apart again if its pretty close i.e. its been a long weekend

Billet Benny wrote:Front or rear??

On the drive side of the gears it looks good. If you move the pinion in it doesn't really need much at all. What you got is about just right.

front 44

tsmall07 wrote:I'd run it. Definitely fine if its in the front. I'd stay with what you have. If you try to mess with it, you may just make it worse and spend a lot of time trying to get it back to how you have it now.

yea thats what I'm afraid of

shmoken875 wrote:

Billet Benny wrote:Front or rear??

On the drive side of the gears it looks good. If you move the pinion in it doesn't really need much at all. What you got is about just right.

front 44

run it.