Removing Carrier: 8.8.

[Ranger44]

I removed the bearing caps, and the shafts, shouldn't the carrier just come out or am I missing something? Doesn't seem to want to come out very easily.

 

[racinranger]

here's a trick for you take a wad of shop rags and put it in above the carrier and into the ring gear. put 2 d shaft bolts in the flange and and crank the rags through ring and pinion. It will force carrier out, no problems. then just yank it the rest of the way. No normally carriers dont just fall out either.

 

[bottledgt]

you will probably have to pry it out. bearing preload is holding it in,but thats a good thing

 

[Evan]

Yup, if you have good carrier bearing preload you'll have to use some force to get it out.

Also, note the orientation of the caps, and remember which side the shims came from so you don't loose your gear setup.

 

[bottledgt]

also arrows go out on the caps

 

[Ranger44]

Ok, I thought i was doing something wrong. I'll get it. Thanks

 

[AllanD]

If you don't need to pry the carrier out of the case it needs to be rebuilt.

Proper side bearing preload involves intentionally installing shims that are 0.006" thicker than whatever is required to set backlash correctly.

In other words you do the diff setup then you remove the "setup" shims and replace them with thicker shims that literally must be drifted into place, thus stretching the housing by 0.012".

So yeah, it's in there kinda tight

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[Ranger44]

Well, I got it yesterday. Need to get those bearing out now.