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Old 02-12-2004, 07:28 PM
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Default Can I swap my gear/carrier into another housing on my own?

Ive got a gear/posi that is set up in a TCS 10 bolt, and I have an empty non-TCS 10 bolt that I'd like to transfer the gear/posi into so that my ABS will work. My question is if my gear is set properly in one housing, will i just be able to swap it myself and use what ever shims are being used to allign the gears right now? Is there more involved? Assuming the housings were manufactured with close tolerances all should be good, right? What else all is involved? What is this crush sleeve thing?
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You will almost always have to set it up on a per rear basis. I'd doubt that you will be lucky enough to get it to "drop in", but I could be wrong.

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Old 02-14-2004, 08:47 PM
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To do it right you still have to check the pinion depth & the bearing preload.
The backlash has to be set up as well.
I wouldn't trust it to be a drop in.
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Back in the day, I did that more then once. And I never had a problem. But now with the knowledge On how to do it properly I would never do it half assed again . (but if you borrowed a dial indicator and installed the gears Id give ya 50% chance of being with in specs)
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Thanks for the replys guys. I'll just leave it the way it is and run with no abs untill i break it

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