He made an assumption here that was incorrect about the way I suggested to do things.
You'd have to be one of the duller knives, or dullest, in the drawer to use a hogged out, old, used front pinion bearing when putting together a fresh rear. Buy all fresh bearings/races and leave a couple out and reuse the old ones, genius! What do I know, maybe that occurs.
Some Dana manuals suggest setting up preload and depth at the same time. I choose to not do it that way.
