I pressed the new large bearing on the pinion. I watched this classroom video on regearing a 10 bolt. It has really good information on theory.
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I have two questions:
1. Establishing pinion bearing preload needs to be done with gear oil on the bearings and without the pinion seal. Then you remove the pinion nut again and install the seal? How to you ensure you don't compress the crush sleeve further? Or don't install tight enough?
Maybe I'll look into doing the crush sleeve eliminator? For the fact that you can replace the yoke or seal in the future without messing with preload again seems worth the $60 or so they sell the kits for.
2. Carrier side bearing preload I don't think I have to mess with, right? I didn't replace the carrier and the factory cast iron shims were kept in their respective place.
I've been swamped at work. Hope to work on it this week.