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Originally Posted by SeanPlunk
I talked to Leedom last night - it turned out to be a 9 hour job! He seemed very happy with the results though, lol.
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We ran into a few issues so it took longer than it should have. The most time consuming issue was when we got the carrier out we saw that one of the spider gears had some teeth chipped. We called Ford to get some new ones but they didn't have them in stock and they wanted $175 for them. So I called up Gonzalo at GTR to see if he had any used ones. He had a complete 8.8 that had bent axle tubes so Adam and I went to GTR to get the carrier. Turned out that the axles were so bent that we couldn't get the carrier out but we did manage to get the two spider gears we needed. When we got back to my place and started to put the carrier back together I noticed that the new (used) gears were smaller than the old ones.
That was a waste of two hours. So we used the chipped gears but I debured the one that had the chips.
Other issues that took more time than normal were thing like the old ring gear not wanting to come off the carrier, having to add shims to increase the carrier bearing pre load, and getting the back lash down to .009 where I wanted it.
Once we were finished we took it for a test drive to make sure there wasn't any gear noise or vibration which I'm happy to say there wasn't.