ring and pinion swap progress

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just thought I would post about my progress with swapping my ring and pinion. I decided to film some short clips and upload them to youtube.

first, I had too little carrier preload. this was with just the stock (thick, single piece) shims. watch how long this carrier spins when I push it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-RyFBZWSYM

then, I had too much carrier preload. this was after adding a 0.02" shim to either side. the carrier stops almost as soon as my hand leaves it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8bLFqSdgYI

this looks like a more reasonable amount of preload. this was with a 0.02" shim on the left and 0.01" shim on the right: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PgMVP596mw

then I took the carrier back out and installed the pinion and yoke, tightening until I had a small amount of pinion preload: (this video is still being processed)

next, I put the carrier back in, locked the yoke in place with a 24" crescent wrench, and measured the gear backlash with my machinist's dial. I had about 34 thousandths worth of backlash, which is way to much: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO2HuZH26iA

this was so much backlash that it creates a ton of coast side gear noise: (this video is still being processed)

to reduce the backlash, we need to move the ring closer to the pinion. this is done by moving the 0.01" shim from the right side to the left side of the carrier. this resulted in about 22 thousandths of backlash: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nYed9N32Zw

this is a move in the right direction, but I need to get down to about 10 thousandths of backlash. more to come later