<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 1:07 PM Greg Blake via Fot <<a href="mailto:fot@autox.team.net">fot@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">All,<br>
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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. <br>
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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?<br>
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