who's changed their own gears?

[awesomeame]

like personally changed their own rear end gears....anyone?

--matt

[Jerriko]

Are you asking for advice reasons or just curious about who has done it? I did mine own at school. They have all of the correct tools for setting backlash and preload on the crush sleeve.

[awesomeame]

i'm looking for a specific how-to from someone who's done it [img]smile.gif[/img]

--matt

[Clark Griswold]

http://www.camarov6.com/cgi-bin/ulti...=002482#000001

[hawgs]

Originally posted by Clark:
http://www.camarov6.com/cgi-bin/ulti...=002482#000001

Thats a funny post. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Jerriko]

Just make sure you get the most accurate inch pound torque wrench that you can find. I don't mean something from autozone, sears, etc. I do mean snap-on. The measurement for the preload of the pinion gear is the most crucial one in the reassembly. I think its like 12-24 lbs/in for new gears and it has to be dead on. If not, the least of your problems would be noisy gears. What kind of gears are you installing?

[awesomeame]

thanks for the link clark. & i have 8 snap-on tq wrenches so no problems there. however, i've decided to take the car to a tranny shop to get it done...albeit i'm going to pay lots of attention & perhaps attempt this the next time i need a gear change.

jerriko, i'm going from 3.23 to 4.11...that should speed things up a bit :D

--matt