Dually wheel bearings

[jonathan]

I'm going to put a gm 14 bolt in mine some day. I think its better axle personally.

 

[riotwarrior]

So how exactly does one use such a shim kit? Remove crush sleeve and measure its thickness, stack some shims to the same height, slide them on the pinion in place of the crush sleeve, and retorque the pinion nut to whatever number it calls for when used w/ crush sleeve? Then check rollover preload on pinion, and remove shims to increase it or add shims to decrease it as needed? I'm wanting to do the shim kit but I don't wanna open the axle yet again, if direct replacement of crush sleeve w/ identical stack of shims is all that's needed life would be all rainbows and unicorns for me, lol.

bout sums it up..

...as for rainbows n unicorns...well that's a personal issue you likely should keep to yourself, or just get together with our GMM hand model, but again...keep it to yerselfs...

 

[LCAM-01XA]

Al, that still don't answer my question whether I can simply replace the crush sleeve w/ same thickness shims and be on my merry way, or it's pretty much mandatory to open the axle and yank the diff out and mess w/ pinion preload and thus rollover torque?

As for the unicorns and rainbows, it's a quote from a quite popular console game. Altho when someone mentions unicorns first thing that pops in my head is the "Cabin in the Woods" movie (if you've seen it you'll know exactly what scene I'm talking about)...

 

[79jasper]

Al, that still don't answer my question whether I can simply replace the crush sleeve w/ same thickness shims and be on my merry way, or it's pretty much mandatory to open the axle and yank the diff out and mess w/ pinion preload and thus rollover torque?

It's been awhile since I read up on it, but I think you're correct on having to pull it to set the bearing preload.