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Rate my Dana 60 gear contact pattern #2565445
10/17/18 04:47 PM
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Thanks!

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Re: Rate my Dana 60 gear contact pattern [Re: 65Fury440] #2565532
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Here is round 2.
I moved the pinion in forward .010, trying to make the contact patch larger.
Now backlash is higher, around .025.
Should I move the carrier over into the pinion at this point?

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Re: Rate my Dana 60 gear contact pattern [Re: 65Fury440] #2565619
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I know nothing about setting up the contact but just ran across this video and it may or may not be helpful.

https://youtu.be/BBA8KjUGsXw


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Re: Rate my Dana 60 gear contact pattern [Re: 65Fury440] #2565654
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Yes - get the backlash in spec. You're close.


Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know.
Re: Rate my Dana 60 gear contact pattern [Re: moper] #2565722
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Originally Posted By moper
Yes - get the backlash in spec. You're close.

What do you think my next move should be?
I was going to shim the carrier to the right into the pinion gear?
Not sure what it would do the the depth of the pattern into the ring gear?

Re: Rate my Dana 60 gear contact pattern [Re: 65Fury440] #2565749
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Yes move toward pinion about .012-.015. Do you have some slip bearings to make your life easy? If not you can make some with a dremel and a few sanding drums, sand them out till they slip on carrier rather than pulling bearings 10 times. I found out that a dremel works after I bought a set.

Re: Rate my Dana 60 gear contact pattern [Re: 4406bbl] #2565780
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Originally Posted By 4406bbl
Yes move toward pinion about .012-.015. Do you have some slip bearings to make your life easy? If not you can make some with a dremel and a few sanding drums, sand them out till they slip on carrier rather than pulling bearings 10 times. I found out that a dremel works after I bought a set.


No but I broke down and bought a press.
At this point, buying a couple sacrificial bearings would be merciful.

Re: Rate my Dana 60 gear contact pattern [Re: 65Fury440] #2565787
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I would recommend setting the pinion depth to what the gear was originally machined for. The spec will be etched on the end of the gear (on a Dana gear set). Then go for your pattern and backlash. Good luck with it.

Re: Rate my Dana 60 gear contact pattern [Re: gzig5] #2565859
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Originally Posted By gzig5
I know nothing about setting up the contact but just ran across this video and it may or may not be helpful.

https://youtu.be/BBA8KjUGsXw


Thanks, those are pretty retro cool!

Re: Rate my Dana 60 gear contact pattern [Re: 65Fury440] #2565871
10/18/18 12:27 PM
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Ya make some slip bearings, go to utube and watch carl jantz engineering dana 70 setup vidio, he made my life so much easier with slip bearings and a yoke replacement tool for setup, you get it right not close. No more pulling banging guessing hopeing....

Re: Rate my Dana 60 gear contact pattern [Re: 65Fury440] #2565873
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He has a video on how to make slip bearings also, FWIW I just set one up last night in 1 hour using his method.

Re: Rate my Dana 60 gear contact pattern [Re: 65Fury440] #2565952
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He's great.
He was actually on a TV show with his Super Jeep, some kind of four wheel drive in Alaska thing.
Thanks for the advice!

Re: Rate my Dana 60 gear contact pattern [Re: 65Fury440] #2565980
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Thats him, he puts a dana 70 ring and pinion in dana 60 housing, watched that and learned how to set up danas fast.







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