- Location
- Green Mountain Falls, CO
Any of you experts know if it's a bad idea to re-use gears that have an unusual wear pattern in them. I know at a minimum they'll be noisy, but if there's no broken teeth or signs of overheating could they still be weakened in some way?
The other week I found out that bad stuff has happened in my front diff. It spun a carrier bearing on the carrier itself and spit the shims out. I cleaned everything out, dimpled the carrier and slapped a new bearing and new shims in there but I couldn't get the pattern back to correct with just carrier shims. While inspecting the gears it appears this pattern has been run for some time, so something else wrong in the diff and has been for a while.
At a minimum I'll be getting a new carrier and all bearings and doing a full setup on the gears to get a good pattern, but I'm wondering if I should also be dropping the coin on a new R&P while I'm at it.
The other week I found out that bad stuff has happened in my front diff. It spun a carrier bearing on the carrier itself and spit the shims out. I cleaned everything out, dimpled the carrier and slapped a new bearing and new shims in there but I couldn't get the pattern back to correct with just carrier shims. While inspecting the gears it appears this pattern has been run for some time, so something else wrong in the diff and has been for a while.
At a minimum I'll be getting a new carrier and all bearings and doing a full setup on the gears to get a good pattern, but I'm wondering if I should also be dropping the coin on a new R&P while I'm at it.