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Originally Posted by Psycho71

You can do it yourself, I did my own. But mine was just a carrier swap, so the pinion never moved, meaning I didn't need the depth gauge. I downloaded instructions from Richmond's site, and followed them to the "T", and everything works great (and has for two years now). So it's not impossible. There are a few tricks I've learned since then, and will employ on the next swap. Getting my wear pattern right was actually pretty easy to do. But again, I never had to move my pinion from the stock location. I'm sure it gets much more complex if that's necessary.

Don't mean to step on anyone's toes, but Jay, when you did just the carrier swap, did you have to shim the carrier any? I basically did the same thing, and my pinion didn't move, but I didn't do anything else but pull the carrier, move the ring to the other carrier, and reinstall it back in the rear. I haven't put the axle into use yet, but will be soon, and don't want to have to pull it back out because I messed something up. I checked for a wear pattern, by doing chalk on one of the teeth, and it showed to be in the middle. Should this be fine? Thanks for the input.

Mike