Actually I'm in Illinois and feel free to stop by. I've been out of the Marine Corps for 8 months now and I could use a good brawl. I personally don't care for tact. I love helping people out, but I don't pull punches. People, not necessarily you, do stupid things with their cars all the time, and sometimes it gets really old hearing about it and having to fix the problems. I also don't like stupid mechanics working on cars and screwing over the customer. If your not sure what you are doing, then dont touch it, thats a good motto to go by. I'm sure you've heard of break-in periods before so next time you'll know. But I'd be fuming if someone did my rearend and the next thing I know, the whole thing locks on me as I'm driving. That could have killed you. As for the crush sleeve, I believe off the top of my head, it gets 160 ftlbs. It'll hover at 145-150 as the sleeve is crushing, and after its done crushing, it'll reach 160 and your done with that. There are shims on each side of the carrier, and by changing those, you adjust how close or far the gears are to each other. Then use the supplied yellow paint to see where the teeth are engaging each other. They should be meshing in the middle of the gears, and the instructions should have some images of right and wrong markings. Its an easy process, but most people dont have access to a large enough torque wrench to crush the sleeve. Make sure if its a posi, that they also added the friction modifier with the gear lube. It helps the posi work and keeps chatter noise down.