I have done a search, but have not found the answer to my questions.
I am thinking about doing a gear instal at home. I have a dana 30/ chrysler 8.25. Where can I get instructional information?
I have helped do a gear install on a 8.8 mustang. A buddy had someone come over that was supose to know what he was doing and have all the tools. He showed up empty handed and persisted that he had put several in with no special tools and that they had all been quiet and lasted. So reluctantly my buddy agreed to let him try. He put the gears in by just puting the ring gear on and then crushing the crush collar down with a breaker bar until there as no play in the pinion gear. When we took the car out for a test drive it was noisy, and he stated, "this is the first one I have ever seen do this, and I have set up six the same way". Then he left. I a last ditch effort to save the gearset we changed the spacers around. We figured going from a 273 to 355 the ringgear needed moved some. It made the setup almost quiet, and they have now been in fairly health mustang for 5 years and about 80,000 miles.
I have shims this time and understand what a grease pattern is, but still don't understand the correct way to tell when you have the pinion torqued in correctly with a crush collar. I understand to put the pinion gear in to a inche/pound torque setting to set the gears up, but how do you know when you have crushed the crush collar to spec?
Also, the install kit for the dana 30 did not come with a crush collar. So how do you set up and instal the front end?
I am thinking about doing a gear instal at home. I have a dana 30/ chrysler 8.25. Where can I get instructional information?
I have helped do a gear install on a 8.8 mustang. A buddy had someone come over that was supose to know what he was doing and have all the tools. He showed up empty handed and persisted that he had put several in with no special tools and that they had all been quiet and lasted. So reluctantly my buddy agreed to let him try. He put the gears in by just puting the ring gear on and then crushing the crush collar down with a breaker bar until there as no play in the pinion gear. When we took the car out for a test drive it was noisy, and he stated, "this is the first one I have ever seen do this, and I have set up six the same way". Then he left. I a last ditch effort to save the gearset we changed the spacers around. We figured going from a 273 to 355 the ringgear needed moved some. It made the setup almost quiet, and they have now been in fairly health mustang for 5 years and about 80,000 miles.
I have shims this time and understand what a grease pattern is, but still don't understand the correct way to tell when you have the pinion torqued in correctly with a crush collar. I understand to put the pinion gear in to a inche/pound torque setting to set the gears up, but how do you know when you have crushed the crush collar to spec?
Also, the install kit for the dana 30 did not come with a crush collar. So how do you set up and instal the front end?