Recent content by Tman220

Red loctite is going on regardless. The evidence of a pinion nut backing off in a past debacle is visible on the carrier in my photos. The pinion gear will contact the differential carrier and destroy stuff. Each time the rear has been rebuilt by someone else it has failed, once from a pinion...

I started with a brake hone/small cylinder 3 stone hone and it was taking far FAR too long and already burned up a set of stones before the first bearing was done! So I ended up finding an 80 grit flapper wheel for my dremel and it still took a while. I put my pinion and diff in the freezer...

I made setup bearings, have a solid pinion sleeve, I have a new nut, red loctite. It's all torn back down now to press on the real bearings

I don't frequent the track much anymore... The Ford 8.8 conversions are intriguing, but any way you slice it you're going to spend 4g's no matter if it's a 9", 12 bolt, dana 60, or Ford 8.8 Still hard to justify, next time it breaks, its happening though.

Yes, the infamous glass diff in 3rd and 4th gen f-bodies. I'm asking a lot of it, I put about 430 to the tire right now After removing .002" from pinion depth this is the result at .007" backlash

New setup. Previous was Yukon gear 3.73's, broke a couple pinion teeth. When I took it apart there was no pinion preload, no carrier preload, the previous guy must have goofed it up. This setup is motive performance 3.73's, I gave it .005" more pinion shim and increased the preload on the...

What do the gear gurus make of this gear pattern? Would you run it? Coast Side Drive Side

So what's your argument? The l83 runs too hot? bragging about yur ole Tundra? No temp readings? Nothing? 5 year olds could argue themselves into a bag of fruits snacks better than that.

I'm even doubling down. I'm so impressed with the oil I have already switched the 21 camry and 21 silverado to Valvoline Restore and Protect. Both vehicles still have low miles, no oil burning, but I switched them anyway because it will prevent any ring coking in the future.

No plan of switching. Why would I swap out a fully formulated motor oil with proven capabilities for cleaning rings and assumingly keeping them clean?

I've maintained the 2007 toyota camry 2.4 2AZ-FE in my sig since new. Up until about 315,000 miles it got Mobil 1 Advanced Fuel Economy 0w20 every 5000 miles. Doing this, it eventually got to the point of burning 1 to 1.5 quarts every 5000 miles. It took four 5000 mile oci's of Valvoline...

I've pretty much run exclusively bfgoodrich tires on my camaro since owning it for the last 20 years. KDWS's, KDW'S, G-FORCE SPORT, and several others I can't recall the name of off hand. With all those tires I'd run between 30-35 psi and even at the lower pressure the center seemed to always...

Good Score! The engine and transmission alone make the purchase a bargain.

There's more to this story. That doesn't appear white from running lean to me. Those look like white deposits from burning something other than gasoline. you can clearly see how much "oil" in in the threads of the plug. How much oil does that engine burn? Are you using any additives in the...

I would personally dial in the voltage and frequency at the most common load on the generator. Who cares what it runs with no load on it unless you just like hearing it run without putting a load on it. If that 3000 watt load is common I would dial in the frequency as close to 60 as you can...