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Originally Posted by rx3
Hey thanks to everybody who contributed to this thread.
What's not quite clear to me is how you guys set the pinion depth?
Did you basically keep on changing the pinion depth as well as the ring gear offset until backlash and the pattern on the gear teeth both were as they needed to be?
Or is it possible to first set the pinion depth and then move on to setting up the offset of the ring gear (backlash)?
Also, with what paint did you color the gear teeth?
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The way I did it was basically:
1) Set pinion depth, assemble, check mesh, disassemble, add shim, repeat. Do this until you get a good pattern on the gear teeth.
2) Use original shims and measure backlash. Try to guestimate what backlash shims you need next. Note that you can measure the current ones and use those to find your next set. The total thickness of the two added together is always constant.
I didn't do backlash until the pinion was set because the shims for backlash are $16 a set and I didn't want to spend a ton of money on shims. So I tried to guess based on my measurements after pinion was set correctly.
I used blue gear mesh paint the second time after I ran out of the yellow that came with the gears. The yellow stuff was much easier to work with IMO.