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The main thing is to pay attention to the torque when putting the yoke back on - that bearing is preloaded so a wrong torque could cause premature bearing failure. Also, if torqued way too tight or way too loose, it will affect how the teeth mesh on the ring gear and cause all kinds of problems in the long run (and noise in the short run).


Over torquing it will not change the gear set up. It will only screw up the pre-load on the pinion bearings.

a Trick you can use on this type of differentials is to pull the crush sleeve out, and put it on a pipe, and hammer the "bend" out of it. Then when you re-set it back up, you can "re crush" it. This is good when you can't get a new crush sleeve, or just wanna squeeze a few more miles out of an old diff. I would never re-use one on new gears, or bearings.

The purpose of the crush sleeve is to hold the pinion bearings in exactly the preload spec that you set them in.

As said before... you got to do it by feel, and it is NOT easy to do. If you leave the case in, and get on the pinion nut with a bigass breaker bar, you can tighten it up real easy, but then you have to pull the case back out to test the preload of the pinion..... as said before... set up like a wheel bearing on a front axle, or a trailer spindle.

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