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Aug 13, 2005 | 02:12 PM

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handyman43358

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215,000 on er. And the previous owner towed a horse trailer with it and had a trailer brake controller on it (dont know if that means anything.) How hard is it to replace these gears and how expensive are they?

Aug 13, 2005 | 07:05 PM

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Franken-Truck

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My old rear end had alot of play in it. Even after the pinion was tightened, it still had a lot of rational play. It wasn't coming from the pinion/ring gear mesh. It was the spider gears. The shims had disintegrated and were letting the gears move farther up the pinion shaft, which let the side gears rotate farther forward until everything engaged. The spider gears also had wallowed out on the spider (mate?) shaft allowing them to rotate. I double stacked shims from the junkyard, along with a good set of used spider gears and spider (mate?) shaft and it regained about 3/8" of rotational play.

Aug 13, 2005 | 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by handyman43358

At that mileage it would be a decent idea to consider redoing the gears. At the same time open up the carrier and see what the spiders and side gears look like as Frankentrunk mentioned. If you have limited slip you will need to redo the clutch plates as well.
I would go on ebay and look for the auctions by a user called 'badshoe' and buy his DVD on rebuilding axles. You would be into about $125-150 for gears, $100 for a bearing kit. Carrier internals will vary based on what you find. If you do it yourself you will save $300-600 in labor. It isnt that hard, it just takes patience and a good attention to detail. Toolwise you will need a dial indicator with a magnetic base, vernier type calipers, an inch pound analog torque wrench plus the regular arsenal of sockets and wrenches.

Aug 14, 2005 | 09:28 PM

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handyman43358

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Sounds like I could tackle it. I'm only 17 but my father runs a machine shop so I'm guessing he has a better set of dial calipers than I have. Thanx for all the info.