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Just wanted to hopefully bring an end to this chapter. Had it put back RIGHT by someone who knows what they’re doing (to be honest, I am a mechanic but I don’t care to learn how to do this right since I’ll never have to do it again and it was noisy as all hell and I am OUT of patience. A new...

Man y’all are good. Are y’all mechanics?

If I overdo the spread I destroy the carrier housing?

I’m tempted. Thanks for all the input so far

Thank you for that, I will review it

Yes, how bad of a job is that? I guess I would be worried about it being bad too, that would be more money sunk if so, and of course the weight of the assembly which I think is about 500 lbs. I’m also considering putting it on the hook and spending $16-$1800 I don’t have to have it redone by a...

FSM for the truck or the axle? Thank you!

I see and thank you for being willing to help and the info. It wasn’t easy but it did go back in by hand. So are you saying there’s no need to continue with these parts? Edit: I don’t personally care about the noise, but I do care about it going bang and exiting parts out of the case or...

With what I know, I can’t, but I can probably time it using that formula you just blessed me with. Do you think I have anything to lose by driving it a short bit to try to diag? Do you think it will blow up? Do you think I damaged it yet? Thank you!

That makes two of us, my valued comrade. Thank you so much for the clutch info on the placement of those. I didn’t, the pressed side bearings stayed in place, keeping the races over them as it was installed was real fun.

This like everything else here is great info. I will order that torque wrench and look into that manual. The parts are all used and what was in there if that matters. Just the yoke, shaft, and rear u joint straps are new. Can you expound on phased drivetrain? Do you mean verification that...

Thinking it over I think I didn’t install any shims in the carrier, the last time I messed with it was December but I don’t recall seeing any shims for the carrier and I don’t think I saved any shims for the carrier. Do y’all think that’s the problem? Signed, ADD Rookie

Man y’all are smart!!! Rarely am I impressed this much with other enthusiasts. The rearmost u joint failed and dropped the original POS 2 piece. I replaced it with a 5” aluminum 1 piece from Weller driveline. It appeared the middle u joint was on the verge of failure was not serviceable so we...

I’m going to sound like an idiot here but I thought preload was only done by the shims and possibly tension on the pinion nut and was specific to the pinion only. I did set the pinion with the carrier out but did not set the carrier as I was not aware, I watched some videos and went over the...

So are y’all saying that I did a bad job of reassembly? I understand now the torque application may not have been the best move and the torque dial indicator was not good enough to use. if I did a bad job, did any of these damage it more in such a short time or was it already too far gone...