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Re: Thrust Buttons - Do I need them?
[Re: HuxCuda]
#62762
05/24/08 01:22 PM
05/24/08 01:22 PM
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Alone in the darkness
gamagoat6x6
super street
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super street
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Alone in the darkness
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If it`s a power lock sure grip and you`re using original style tapered wheel bearings you will never be able to set the axle end play without them.
`02 RAM2500 SPORT V10 4x4
`06 GMC sierra
NO cars
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Re: Thrust Buttons - Do I need them?
[Re: HuxCuda]
#62763
05/24/08 02:21 PM
05/24/08 02:21 PM
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Posts: 2,936
Richmond, VA
VT_Dart
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Richmond, VA
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Do you have green bearings? If so, then you don't need them. Otherwise, yes you need them to set end play.
Darrah Heath
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Re: Thrust Buttons - Do I need them?
[Re: HuxCuda]
#62765
05/25/08 12:24 PM
05/25/08 12:24 PM
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U.S.S.A.
JohnRR
I Win
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Yes the new rear end came with green bearings.
then you don't need them , but i would save them as a just in case
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Re: Thrust Buttons - Do I need them?
[Re: JohnRR]
#62766
05/25/08 12:30 PM
05/25/08 12:30 PM
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St. John's Newfoundland
440newport
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St. John's Newfoundland
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Yes the new rear end came with green bearings.
then you don't need them , but i would save them as a just in case
back in sept I did a center section swap on my car and put in a 3.91 742 case sure grip. I didn't know about the thrust button thing at the time and just put it together, I set the end play (stock axles/bearings) by hand to where I could just barely feel the axle move in and out thinking that was good enough. It did take a good couple of turns on the adjuster to get it tight but there was an open case in there before if that makes a difference. I never did look inside the case to see if the buttons were in there. If they were missing would I have been able to set the endplay at all? And would the bearings be howling by now? The car has maybe 1000 miles on it since the swap.
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Re: Thrust Buttons - Do I need them?
[Re: 440newport]
#62767
05/25/08 02:44 PM
05/25/08 02:44 PM
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Carstairs, Alberta, Canada
dave571
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.... If they were missing would I have been able to set the endplay at all?....
You wouldn't have been able to set it all.
The axles would be flopping all over, and giving you all kinds of problems.
After 1000 miles you are for sure good to go 
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