Recent content by mikalcarbine

I'm moving onto my next project and selling my TJ. I'm the third owner and have had it for about 11 years. All the mods have been top quality parts. It's been used but not thrashed on. 2002 Jeep Wrangler Sport 5 speed NV3550 185k miles - speedo has been between 10%-15% off so mileage on the...

Went to start buttoning everything up and I realized there are two pinion preload specs floating around. The FSM says 20-40 in-lbs for new bearings and everywhere else seems to say 14-19 in-lbs. Thoughts?

Based on Bilavista's guide, I set up an approximate inner pinion shim. When torqued to 100ftlbs I was typically getting 10-30 in lbs of preload. As I said above this was to avoid any wiggling of my setup shim. I was also worried about my old pinion nut scoring up my new pinion threads but it was...

I contacted ECGS which is who I bought the gears and rebuild kit from. Their tech said heel to toe usually does not change and it Is more controlled by the actual gear and or housing then the depth or backlash. I sent the photos and they recommended running the pinion at 50. I think the 53...

To be honest from the guides I've read I've been tightening my pinion only enough to set the bearings. I've been using 100ft lbs and 20-40in lbs of pinion preload. As for the carrier I have the shims set to take up the "empty space" and a maybe a few thou more. I've been using this guide which...

Here's 54 from earlier when I first started. I started at 42 and went directly to 57 but it looked too deep to my untrained eye so I backed off to 54. Unfortunately no photos of 57 but it looked deep towards the root I am thinning out my marking compound with gear oil but I'll keep using...

I tried a pinion depth of 45,46 and 47 but my main concern right now is trying to get the pattern centered between the heel and toe. With my pinion at 46 moving the backlash from 0.006 to 0.010 had no impact on the toe/heel contact. I even moved the pinion a few thousandths while maintaining...

Are you saying that because the pattern has too much toe? To get those most recent patterns I spun the carrier per some advice on another forum, the Yukon manual that came with my gears indicates that's the way to do it as well. I keep seeing mixed on this but I was spinning the pinion with my...

Thank guys, I set the pinon to 44 and tried running a pattern by rotating the carrier and holding the pinion under pressure with a towel. I might need to clean the gears before trying another pattern. Thoughts on this? My novice eye thinks this looks much better than 49. My backlash was 6-8...

Thanks guys, I'll post up some more later this week

I'm setting up new 4.88 gears in my Dana 44 with my ARB. I could use some input on interpreting these patterns This was the first pattern I pulled and didn't write down the specs, it was at 42 thou pinion depth and maybe 7-8 backlash The numbers below indicate inner pinion shim/outer shim/RGS...

Thanks guys, I'm going to stick with the dimple method, I wouldn't trust myself sanding the mating surface of the caps by hand. In your opinion would the Loctite be an extra bit of precaution or completely unnecessary with that pattern of dimples?

Had a botched gear job from a local shop that only had about 5000 miles on it. Bearings were worn pretty bad and my driver side carrier bearing spun a bit. It's loose enough now that I can spin a brand new bearing cup by hand when the bearing cap is torqued down to spec. Bearing Races...

That's been what has been holding me back for a while, I've been ready to move on but it's been a tough pill to swallow with the loss in investment I've seen much less built TJs on Craigslist in the area going from anywhere between 11k-15k, some are much less built, some have much less miles...

Been back and forth on this for some time, I think finding out what it's worth might give me the push I need. I'd like some opinions from Phoenix locals on what they think this is worth. I'm probably forgetting some stuff but here's a list of what's done to it 2002 Jeep Wrangler 5 speed...