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No. The crush washer is in there to set the preload on the bearings. Just t=
ightening the pinion nut will change the preload and the bearings will proba=
bly fail in just a few thousand miles.
Sent from my keyboard
> On Aug 17, 2016, at 3:26 PM, mdrowe via Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.ne=
t> wrote:
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> The differential I just pulled has a lot of slop in it, but it does not lo=
ok worn. To my uneducated eye, it looks like the pinion is not all the way i=
n to the ring gear because the crush washer was not torqued enough. Does th=
at make sense? If so, can I just torque it more and see what happens?
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there to set the preload on the bearings. Just tightening the pinion nut
will change the preload and the bearings will probably fail in just a few
thousand miles.<br><br>Sent from my keyboard</div><div><br>On Aug 17, 2016, at
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<div>The differential I just pulled has a lot of slop in it, but it does not
look worn. To my uneducated eye, it looks like the pinion is not all the
way in to the ring gear because the crush washer was not torqued
enough. Does that make sense? If so, can I just torque it more and
see what happens?</div>
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<div>Michael Rowe</div>
<div>The Holy Sprite</div></div></blockquote><blockquote
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