[Fot] Diff setup

[John Styduhar]

This idea was mentioned somewhere in the past FOT discussions.  It's the
same approach as the 8.8 Ford setup, but I don't see how you can keep thin
shims from damage.  The Ford uses one single shim of the appropriate
thickness.  These's also the problem with shim walkout.  Pulling the
carrier bearings is the least of my troubles when setting backlash and
preload.


On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 1:07 PM Greg Blake via Fot <fot at autox.team.net>
wrote:

> All,
>
> Finally getting around to the new diff setup and it occurred to me to
> determine the carrier bearing preload and shim requirements, it is a lot
> easier to use the larger pinion bearing shims behind the bearing races than
> pulling the cone off the carrier several times.  See photo below.
>
> Any options to using this shim setup as a final installation?  Maybe a tab
> welded to the inside of the diff cover to ensure they don’t back out?
> Thoughts?
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