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