GM/other 4.10 gears
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Originally Posted by bluecajun5.3
i'm running motive gear 4.10's. pretty good bang for the buck...
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I was actually advised by a few shops to avoid putting in a new GM ring & pinion when I went to step up to 4.10's. Each shop had told me horror stories of trying to get proper backlash setup with the 8.6 ring, they all advised going aftermarket with an 8.5
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Originally Posted by w41quad4
I was actually advised by a few shops to avoid putting in a new GM ring & pinion when I went to step up to 4.10's. Each shop had told me horror stories of trying to get proper backlash setup with the 8.6 ring, they all advised going aftermarket with an 8.5
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Just a friendly bit of advice....if a shop tells you anything even remotely close to this, run - don't walk - away from them and go somewhere else.
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can anyone recommend a good pinion depth tool?
I have experience setting up ford 8.8's, and have the ford tool for this.
But that won't help with the GM rear.
I have experience setting up ford 8.8's, and have the ford tool for this.
But that won't help with the GM rear.
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i've heard a lot of people doing this when i was getting my information on here before doing the swap. i've got over 10k miles on my 4.10's and eaton and never had a problem yet.
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Originally Posted by Naked AV
Which probably had nothing to do with the higher profit margin of the aftermarket gears, it was the unnecessarily tight tolerances of those crappy GM rings and pinions, right?
Actually what I wound up purchasing was a good bit cheaper than the stock GM pieces, although I didn't buy the gear sets from any of the shops who told me this I was quoted from two of them and they were both cheaper than original GM sets.