ken75ranger
Bronco Guru
I'm having some problem setting up my gears. I put in the new bearing cups and new bearing in the pinion support, pressed in a new seal. I pressed on the new bearing on to the new pinion and put a new crush sleeve. I tried to tighten it and went to 250 ft-lbs. It got the bearing tight(too tight) but never crushed the sleeve. I didn't want to trash anything so I put a new crush sleeve on my old pinion with the old bearing and tried it on that. 250 lbs.and still nothing. I pulled out the big bar and pipe. I kept going a 1/4 turn and checking it. Still not crushed. I kept going until stripped the nut. I was well over 350ft/lbs went she stripped. I checked the bearing numbers a few times and the new ones match the old ones. I also too a look at the cups and the seem to match the old ones. I'm at a loss to what it could be. Any ideas?