Gear Installation Finished! *Pics*

[Kevin R.]

Gear Installation! *NEW Pics*

..we decided to do it ourself..

Here is yesterday's (12/29) progress..

Our glorious workspace..
<img src='http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-12/920034/PC291105.JPG' width=640 height=480 >

Old ring gear (left) New ring gear (right)
<img src='http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-12/920034/PC291108.JPG' width=640 height=480 >

Everything taken apart..
<img src='http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-12/920034/PC291106.JPG' width=640 height=480 >

The bearings we had to dremel off because they wouldn't pull..
<img src='http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-12/920034/PC291109.JPG' width=640 height=480 >

With the pinion installed..
<img src='http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-12/920034/PC291110.JPG' width=640 height=480 >


Hopefully will be done today.

 

[DFG 5OH]

i dont see pics man

 

[4dStang]

pics suck. whats up with that. I just see an empty axle housing. What are you trying to show?

Good color on that stang by the way. I really appreciate the black now with my black Cobra! I like to pay a racer to set up my gears. for $175 I can get my gears perrrrrrfect. Put 20K on the current set with zero probs! Have fun installing those baztardz.

 

[4dStang]

by the way, whats up with the scissor jack. Don't you have a floor jack? Blah!!!!

 

[Darkhorse845]

Congrats keep up the good work!

 

[1105]

It only took me and my dad 4 hours to change my gears Its nice to see that you're doing it yourself instead of throwing it in the hands of a shop who will probably have someone who doesnt have a clue of what their doing working on it.

 

[RIO5.0]

Your gaining on it...

from the looks around the axle seal, in pic #1, i'd say you have a leaky one??? 4.00 a pc, so I would swap them out...

Its gonna be fun doing up the crush collar at that height, you may want to get it up some????

 

[Kevin R.]

4D- I just took some random pictures. The empty housing are because we finally got around the ABS sensors and got the axles out, only had to break one off (50$ a piece!)
The rest are of the car and the empty casing. We had a floor jack but it has a leak and won't hold for long.

1150- Yeah we have actually only spent like 6 hours total working on the car. The rest of our days are spent driving from store to store to store to store getting more and more parts.

Rio- Yeah we are swapping the axle seals and bearings, and a lot of other stuff. Another luxury of doing this ourselves, we can just swap what we want without paying labor and a lot more money for it.

 

[Kevin R.]

Today we got most everything put back in. Backlash measured at .006 which is perfect for the Motive gears so everything is lookin' good.

Will hopefully be done today.

 

[Joes95GT]

Its gonna be fun doing up the crush collar at that height, you may want to get it up some????

My thoughts exactly.

I hope your forearms look like Popeye's....

Joe

 

[mo_dingo]

My thoughts exactly.

I hope your forearms look like Popeye's....

Joe

Yeah, I bet that won't be fun.

If you run into any problems, click my sig. I did a write-up and there is a specific section on tightening the pinion nut.
Scott

 

[BlueOvalStangGT]

I just got my car back from the shop after trying to fix a crazy whine which i thought was coming from my gears. Shop owner says something happpend and the gears wore wrong and now I need new ones. I installed the others like 8 months ago at that same shop. Think I could do it myself? I was thinking maybe a auburn locker and new exles and such also.

 

[DFG 5OH]

damn, the pics still dont work for me...

 

[Kevin R.]

The crush sleeve was no problem because we use a ratchet and put a 3' bar on the end for leverage, making it much easier. Although we could only move it about 1/8 inch at a time we got er' done.

Here is a link to the pics because apparantly the server isn't big enough.
Click Here.

We got it done about 8 pm today. Worked great, they didn't even "pop" like some say they do when you first drive it. Still "breaking them in" so can't really see what difference it made yet but I'll get back to you on that.

Only problem is with the 17" rims and the gears my speedo is off about 25% at all times. Definately need a new speedo gear, going 60 while reading 80 is no fun, really racks up the miles too.

Oh well, I have gears now!

 

[Kevin R.]

BTW BlueOval I bet you could do it yourself you just have to take your time and take a lot of measurements. The 14 pages of instructions from the CORRAL and the info from Mo_Dingo were very informative through the whole process as well.

You will need something to measure everything with, something very precise. My dad happened to have a tool from work that measures to the .001 so it came in very very handy.

I wouldnt recommend it but you could do it yourself.

 

[Kevin R.]

Speedometer sucks..... anyone know if a 23 tooth speedo gear can be put in the 'AODE' tranny ? I know you can do it in a 5-speed but what about the AODE.

 

[KingDiamond]

I have a 23 tooth speedo gear in mine and there are no problems.

 

[Kevin R.]

Thanks,

Where does it go.... in the tailpiece of the tranny? I thought i saw somewhere that it only takes removing one bolt and pulling it out to change but wasnt sure.