Hello, I need another pair of eyes on this if possible. 2004 F250 Sterling 10.5 140k miles. I was redoing everything from the the transfer case back. Decided to take apart the traclok to clean / inspect the friction discs. Someone had been in there and left out a washer chewing up the carrier. Ordered a truetrac. I had redone the entire front axle last year so I didn't feel like changing the ratio now and opted to reuse the old 373 ring and pinion. Everything else is new. 22lbs preload, no crush sleeve eliminator installed yet. I have a slightly sanded down inner pinion race in place. 9 thou backlash. Carrier has a little over 1 thou of movement if i use two pry bars to manipulate it side to side. I think this pattern is mated pretty close with the old one. Which I believe is all I can hope for. With the mileage / pattern does it look like anything is too out of whack to continue to run it like this. I guess I would find out the noise level once back on the road. First time I've ever had to mess with shims. Thank you for your time!

 

[QUOTE=D.Thrasher;21815423]Hello, I need another pair of eyes on this if possible. 2004 F250 Sterling 10.5 140k miles. I was redoing everything from the the transfer case back. Decided to take apart the traclok to clean / inspect the friction discs. Someone had been in there and left out a washer chewing up the carrier. Ordered a truetrac. I had redone the entire front axle last year so I didn't feel like changing the ratio now and opted to reuse the old 373 ring and pinion. Everything else is new. 22lbs preload, no crush sleeve eliminator installed yet. I have a slightly sanded down inner pinion race in place. 9 thou backlash. Carrier has a little over 1 thou of movement if i use two pry bars to manipulate it side to side. I think this pattern is mated pretty close with the old one. Which I believe is all I can hope for. With the mileage / pattern does it look like anything is too out of whack to continue to run it like this. I guess I would find out the noise level once back on the road. First time I've ever had to mess with shims. Thank you for your time!









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There can be no slop in the carrier bearings. Get that fixed first and print a new pattern. Looks like the backlash is going to need some work, check it in 3 spots.

 

Looks like you need to increase backlash. It makes sense since these are used gears. I just set my 9 inch up with very used gears and it didn't look good until about 12 - 15 thou backlash.