Polishing a Turd
03-29-2010, 12:04 AM
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Polishing a Turd Just did a t56 swap as well as heads/cam on my LT1. Needless to say I am just about out of money and the 9 inch that I had originally intended to buy at the same time is no longer in the budget. I need to do a gear swap because RAM said the HD will chatter with any less than 373 gears. I hate to put any money into the 10 bolt but it is going to have to get me around until I can afford a new rear. I know I won't be able to take it to the track or anything like that but I guess my question is is it absolutely necessary to change the bearings on a 48000 mile 10 bolt? I haven't ripped it apart to inspect but for those that take them apart regularly is there a lot of wear under normal driving conditions at that mileage? What is the cheapest possible way to get a new set of gears in there ie brands of gear, vendors, install kits... Any help is appreciated 
03-29-2010, 03:09 PM
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if you know your going to be upgrading to a 12 bolt or 9" anyways, but just want to get by for now, you could probably get away with not replacing the seals and bearings and just swap the gears.
If I were you, I would just go with a set of Yukon gears. Cheap, lifetime warranty (which I have utilized in the past myself) and they are fairly quiet and setup pretty nicely.
If this is going to be a semi-permanent upgrade to the 10-bolt, then I would find some good GM gears and replace all the bearings and seals with Timkens.
If I were you, I would just go with a set of Yukon gears. Cheap, lifetime warranty (which I have utilized in the past myself) and they are fairly quiet and setup pretty nicely.
If this is going to be a semi-permanent upgrade to the 10-bolt, then I would find some good GM gears and replace all the bearings and seals with Timkens.
03-30-2010, 09:59 PM
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timkens where do you get timkens install kit from and yukon gears from to do a partial upgrade i am in the same boat whining 10 bolt and i do not have 2500 for a 9in or 12 bolt
03-31-2010, 01:37 AM
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it is a 3.23 rear right now because it was an auto car, I don't know if it will make that big of a difference but I would like to throw them in there as kind of a trial run to see what gears I want to get in the 9 when I finally do get it. I am thinking about just buying the summit gears and cheap install kit without bearings and setting them up myself. Any thoughts?
03-31-2010, 07:17 AM
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it is a 3.23 rear right now because it was an auto car, I don't know if it will make that big of a difference but I would like to throw them in there as kind of a trial run to see what gears I want to get in the 9 when I finally do get it. I am thinking about just buying the summit gears and cheap install kit without bearings and setting them up myself. Any thoughts?