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Originally Posted by falcongtho3
I got burned by a 'mechanic' who said he knew how to do the pinion seal and did not replace the crush sleeve. After having issues related to that 'fix', I sent it to a place that specializes in transmissions and rear ends and they told me the crush sleeve had obviously not been changed and that you have a special tool to measure resistance for setting the pinion bolt, not a torque wrench.
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I've built several rear ends for Ford 8" 8.8" and 9" rears and you do use a torque wrench to measure the resistance, just not your standard ft-lb wrench. It requires an in-lb wrench to get accurate measurements. For an 8.8 rear, it's about 10in-lbs for old bearings and about 20 in-lbs for new bearings.
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