Can someone provide some input on the below gear pattern?

Dana 44 rear non rubicon housing
Arb RD147
Yukon 4.56 Gears

Backlash is set at .0075”

Is this an acceptable pattern?

 

That pattern looks better than what I recall your previous pattern looking like on the older thread. That is only my opinion though from doing this a couple times, and not someone that installs gears regularly like TheDirtman.

 

Looks Great!

 

right on the money!

 

yeah so the previous pattern from an older thread was the front axle. I talked to some people who regularly regear the front and they said sometimes there is nothing you can do about a toe to heel pattern l. Sometimes the housings are machined in a way where you get that pattern. Thanks for the input!

 

Thanks all for the extra confidence. I will button it up and put on those 35 inch tires! Thanks for all the help!

 

The dirtman, my pinion preload is at 20-22 inlbs and I am using new bearings. I’m using a crush sleeve eliminator kit. Do you think that I should pound the pinion out and try to get the preload a little closer to nominal (30 inlbs) or leave it the way it is. I’m trying to way the trade off of potentially damaging the bearing/race when removing it or getting the pinion preload a little tighter.

what would you recommend?

 

If it were mine I would leave it and run it a few hundred miles and re-check it. If stays the same go with it.

 

would the best way to check the preload be with the carrier and axle shafts on that way in a couple hundred miles I could verify that it was the same as that measurement? It would be a real pain if I had to pull shafts and the carrier out to verify the pinion preload hadn’t changed.

 

Yes. Put it back together and check what you have.