carrier bearing caps

I have a D44 trac-loc (yeah, I know, but it was free) that was pulled with about 20K miles on it. I was thinking to swap it into my rear at the next service, using my existing gears.

The regear kits that I seen do not seem to include the carrier bearing caps, which brings up my question. The bearings on the trac-loc look good, can I swap it in and reuse my existing bearing caps (which are ok) or should I replace bearing caps and or carrier bearings?

Also just swapping the carrier should not affect the ring gear/pinion relationship from what I read so that should not be a problem right?

are you talking about the races? and yes switching the carrier will affect the backlash every carrier is different.

If you are talking about the races, then most rebuild kits will come with them. If you are actually talking about the main caps, that hold the carrier in, you don't need to change those. Main caps can't be switched from housing to housing anyway. If you only chage the carrier, then there maybe a slight chance you would have to shim it, to get the proper gear pattern back.

yeah what matt said

POLAR_JEEP_04 said:

are you talking about the races?

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no, I know the races are matched to the bearings.

Matt98XJ said:

If you only chage the carrier, then there maybe a slight chance you would have to shim it, to get the proper gear pattern back.

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If I have to reshim, may not be worth the effort, I may just wait until I regear and get a truetrac since I will have to replace carriers then anyway.

thanks,

POLAR_JEEP_04 said:

yeah what matt said

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