MontereyLS1

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I thought the crush sleeve in the 10 bolt was used to adjust the pinion depth and was a needed item. How exactly does this solid sleeve i keep reading about work? will it help? please dont say buy a 12bolt or 9inch because i have a street car......just slightly stronger is all im going for.


Oh......the car is going to be M6 with either 4.10, 4.30, or 4.56 in the 10 bolt

hawaiiboysz

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Its a few bucks and you wont need to worry about the pinion moving on you. I threw a 9 inch in my car. But I have a solid sleeve in my 4Runner that I use for heavy off road. Its ran by a 4 cyl. and 5.29 gears screwed up a gear set by the shock so basically the pinion moved around. So when I installed new gearing I also installed a solid sleeve. It hasn't done it since and trust me that toy has been beaten. So it could be a good add on if you are going to do a gear change. Oh another good thing is that you dont need to try to crush that damn sleeve when setting up your gears to me thats a plus because I work alone and my kids are to young to help. Good luck either way its a 10 bolt if its going to break its going to break. I wouldnt go higher then 4.10's higher you go the more your pinion gear will resemble a Q-tip and Q-tips break pretty easily.

jimmyblue

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Crush collar "adjusts" by deforming under load. Then
every time you overload it, it adjusts a little more.
Then your pinion bearings loosen up and the looser
they are, the more play you get. Free play makes for
the possibility of impact rather than constant mesh.
Impact is a tooth killer.

Hard pinion spacer (Ratech) is set up with a stack of
shims and nothing moves from there. So the pinion
depth, pinion end play, gear pattern all stay like you
put them.

Which just means you can concentrate on twisting
off axle ends instead....

MontereyLS1

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Sweeeeeet.......twisted axles mmmhhmmmm


Prolly not on Toyo street tires lol