Judge this gear pattern.
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Judge this gear pattern.
I installed some 3.73 5-cut gears, and I want a judgement on these patterns.
This is with .006" backlash.
This is with .006" backlash.
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Car: 84 TA orig. 305 LG4 "H" E4ME
Engine: 334 SBC - stroked 305 M4ME Q-Jet
Transmission: upgraded 700R4 3200 stall
Axle/Gears: 10bolt 4.10 Posi w Lakewood TA Bars
Re: Judge this gear pattern.
I think we are looking at PERFECTION.
Now I have to find the charts to make sure.
Now I have to find the charts to make sure.
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Car: 84 TA orig. 305 LG4 "H" E4ME
Engine: 334 SBC - stroked 305 M4ME Q-Jet
Transmission: upgraded 700R4 3200 stall
Axle/Gears: 10bolt 4.10 Posi w Lakewood TA Bars
Re: Judge this gear pattern.
Put the cover on, fill it with gear oil, and go do this.
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thats what i was thinking. i would do this and look again. maybe even pull more than that, like .005-10. if it winds up looking a bit shallow, you can get a rough idea of where perfect is. (in the middle of the 2 shim setups) now, once you know that, if you had to choose between a smidge too deep or a smidge too shallow, i would lean towards the smidge too deep. because there will be a small amount of deflection in the case/bearings/pinion/ etc while under load pushing the gears away from one another.
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thats what i was thinking. i would do this and look again. maybe even pull more than that, like .005-10. if it winds up looking a bit shallow, you can get a rough idea of where perfect is. (in the middle of the 2 shim setups) now, once you know that, if you had to choose between a smidge too deep or a smidge too shallow, i would lean towards the smidge too deep. because there will be a small amount of deflection in the case/bearings/pinion/ etc while under load pushing the gears away from one another.
Wanted to type the same about overshooting to the shallow side, but because it's very close I wanted to save him the extra work.
If I can't get a perfect pattern, then I'm also leaning towards slightly deep and toe biased pattern.
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Re: Judge this gear pattern.
Here it is, with .005" backlash:
This is the final pattern that I made last night. It's already installed and I drove it to work today; seems fine, doesn't make any noise. I'm not going to f*ck with it unless someone gives me incontrovertible evidence that it's going to explode in action.
This is with the .039" pinion shim, and .008" backlash (I sanded down an old solid shim for the final installation instead of a shim pack; I don't like using shim-packs on the driver's side of the differential. Or at all, if I can avoid it. ).
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