where can i find wear patterns for gears?

[Bosko5.0]

i need to find sites that have wear patterns for gears to try and see whats the right pattern.


thanks

 

[RIO5.0]

Try here....List of links on the bottom of the page...One should have what your after..I thought this Corral write-up showed them??

http://www.corral.net/tech/drivetrain/gears.html

Here you go...

 

[Bosko5.0]

RIO5.0 you are the man i couldnt find anything but you found it all

 

[RIO5.0]

Done it a few times over myself...What'd you end up with for the pinion shim??

 

[Bosko5.0]

i dont remember off the top of my head i wrote all my info down and its at my brothers house the last thing i did was make the wear pattern last thing i want to do is not recheck the pattern i know the backlash is .009

 

[Bosko5.0]

coast side
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drive side
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how do this look? i believe my pinion shim is .042"

 

[RIO5.0]

I cant really detect a definite pattern??? Brush on your pattern grease across the entire face of the gear, then you get a better idea of the pattern..You used FRPP gears and the stock Trac-Loc, correct?? The factory pinion shim is more like .015
.042 is a huge dif if your running Ford gears...no wonder she's howling..

You can see its a very thin shim...Ford uses a "master set-up dim" so I would think you'd be in that ballpark shim wise...I take it thats not the shim that was behind the pinion bearing when it came off??

 

[Bosko5.0]

wrong shim sorry

 

[Bosko5.0]

.34 pinion shim

 

[Bosko5.0]

this is what my current wear pattern looks like the backlash is at .009 and pinion shim is .032 that .002 less then stock shim.

does it look good?

i could nt get the coast side towards the middle like i wanted.





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