I was at a standstill waiting on inner C clip for my R front axle and it came in. (thanks to FJparts) Back to working on the front disc brake swap this afternoon and I have some questions which someone may be able to help.
I finished removing the gasket material from the axle housing and figured I should inspect the planetary bearings. Which brings me to my questions and apologies, I am unsure of the precise terminology so I will add photos. I did remove the caps and inspect the races and bearings, they seem great to me. the first picture - it hit me I need to return the caps to the correct side, was going to mark it but notice one cap had 17 on it and the other side 18 - that was good enough but I took pics anyway.
I finished removing the gasket material from the axle housing and figured I should inspect the planetary bearings. Which brings me to my questions and apologies, I am unsure of the precise terminology so I will add photos. I did remove the caps and inspect the races and bearings, they seem great to me. the first picture - it hit me I need to return the caps to the correct side, was going to mark it but notice one cap had 17 on it and the other side 18 - that was good enough but I took pics anyway.
- Here is my question. It seemed when I rotated the pinion ring before I removed the caps, there was a slight travel before it engaged. Should there be any, I am going to call it lash in the gear mesh? If no, do I take it up by tightening the threaded rings that are locked by the tabs on the top of the bearing housing?
- I set up a micrometer to see how much travel the pinion moves before it meshes with the drive shaft (prolly flubbing this but hopefully you can see what I mean.
- I used a 2x to block the flange for the U-Joint and set this up to check travel, I was getting .60-.67mm it is hard to get a stable and the first set up, before I blocked the U-joint flange was 1.2-1.7mm of travel but my grip was unsteady.
