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You still may need to adjust pinion depth. Like I said you may get lucky but the difference in the carrier's casting, and the wear of the carrier bearings you may need to be able to know how thick your shims are left to right to move tighten (or even loosen) backlash. And sometimes in doing so you end up having to change pinion depth. One adjustment affects the other.