Hello,
Okay i have measured the two factory shims that came in it when i took it out and got .275 on the left and .270 on the right and my question is.. does that have to be maintained the same so - 275 + 270 =545, so in the end do i have to end up with 0.545 thou in total? because as of now it is really really tight to install the carrier with that amount of thinkness and really hard to remove, so now i am just wondering if i am able to take any thinckness away to make it a bit easier? or i have heard that you take 6 thou away from each side and then when you have your backlash set up within spec you put the .006 shims back in on each side, will this work? I am just getting really frustrated trying to remove it and install it several time to acheive the right backlash as it is Tight.
One more quik question is that i have bought the ford racing gears 3.73's and was told that in most cases the factory shim on the pinion can be used or the fordracing gear is at least really close to stock pinion depth, but any ways i ended up measuring both of the pinion head thicknesses with a vernier and ended up putting only a .010" shim on the ford racing gear instead of the 0.034" shim that came on the stock head, .... does this sound right, or should it be closer to the stock head i have yet to check it with gear marking compound because i havent got my backlash set yet.
Okay i have measured the two factory shims that came in it when i took it out and got .275 on the left and .270 on the right and my question is.. does that have to be maintained the same so - 275 + 270 =545, so in the end do i have to end up with 0.545 thou in total? because as of now it is really really tight to install the carrier with that amount of thinkness and really hard to remove, so now i am just wondering if i am able to take any thinckness away to make it a bit easier? or i have heard that you take 6 thou away from each side and then when you have your backlash set up within spec you put the .006 shims back in on each side, will this work? I am just getting really frustrated trying to remove it and install it several time to acheive the right backlash as it is Tight.
One more quik question is that i have bought the ford racing gears 3.73's and was told that in most cases the factory shim on the pinion can be used or the fordracing gear is at least really close to stock pinion depth, but any ways i ended up measuring both of the pinion head thicknesses with a vernier and ended up putting only a .010" shim on the ford racing gear instead of the 0.034" shim that came on the stock head, .... does this sound right, or should it be closer to the stock head i have yet to check it with gear marking compound because i havent got my backlash set yet.