'70 Dart 392 Project; what direction?
Spent most the afternoon pulling and playing with shims. I originally thought I’d be good to go if I matched the factory shim thicknesses…. WRONG!
Ended up with an additional .013” outter pinion shims, .005” less inner pinion shims. And had to thicken the carrier shims .010” to the non ring gear side (should’ve gone .015”-.018” I think). But as it sits my backlash is at .0035, rotational torque on pinion is 30 inch lbs, and the drive pattern is 85% where it needs to be with the coast pattern being perfect. I’m likely going to run it but we’ll see how I feel next week lol pulling the carrier bearings is a bit of a pain in the butt.
Waiting for the 10 T nuts to secure my axle flanges to my new housing ends to come back in stock but it’s getting closer.
Mike
Spent most the afternoon pulling and playing with shims. I originally thought I’d be good to go if I matched the factory shim thicknesses…. WRONG!
Ended up with an additional .013” outter pinion shims, .005” less inner pinion shims. And had to thicken the carrier shims .010” to the non ring gear side (should’ve gone .015”-.018” I think). But as it sits my backlash is at .0035, rotational torque on pinion is 30 inch lbs, and the drive pattern is 85% where it needs to be with the coast pattern being perfect. I’m likely going to run it but we’ll see how I feel next week lol pulling the carrier bearings is a bit of a pain in the butt.
Waiting for the 10 T nuts to secure my axle flanges to my new housing ends to come back in stock but it’s getting closer.
Mike
