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Man, I was doing some numbers on this and came up with. 17 oil changes a year (1 every 3 weeks)at about a $1,000 doing them yourself.

52,000 miles a year at 5 days a week.

1 tank of gas every day at about $50 which is about $1,000 a month in gas.

You must really love to drive that square and I think that's great but, I could never even come close to affording that. Lol

Glad you can. Must have a great job that pays a ton. Ever think of moving closer to work?
 

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Man, I was doing some numbers on this and came up with. 17 oil changes a year (1 every 3 weeks)at about a $1,000 doing them yourself.

52,000 miles a year at 5 days a week.

1 tank of gas every day at about $50 which is about $1,000 a month in gas.

You must really love to drive that square and I think that's great but, I could never even come close to affording that. Lol

Glad you can. Must have a great job that pays a ton. Ever think of moving closer to work?
I’m on something called an extra board. I don’t work daily. I protect call offs. Still get paid daily. Sometimes I work every 12 hours. In that case I stay gone. For a few days at a time. I also protect a terminal. About 40 miles away. Jobs weird. I guess sometimes I’m regular. Then I do drive it daily.
 
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Couple more pictures. Guys think the pinion gear is ok?
Chipped on the very edge from that bar falling into it.

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With my vast shade tree knowledge :confused:, from what I see, it looks good. Just file down any burrs that may be there. I’ve had worst without issues. Hopefully not much trash hit the bearings.
 

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With my vast shade tree knowledge :confused:, from what I see, it looks good. Just file down any burrs that may be there. I’ve had worst without issues. Hopefully not much trash hit the bearings.
I Actually didn’t put much thought into the pinion bearings.... hmmmmm
 

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If you're gonna re-use it, I'd install a magnetic fill plug!
 

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If you're gonna re-use it, I'd install a magnetic fill plug!
Looks like I’ll need new bearings all around
Siiigh. I hate setting pinion preload. Don’t even have a crush washer handy

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Im now in your boat.... about to venure into uncharted territory!
 

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Im now in your boat.... about to venure into uncharted territory!
Driver side carrier. I keep cleaning. Flakes keep coming

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This looks like it was spinning. Probably toast huh?

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I'm going to do my 14ff with different guts sometime soon. Nice thing about the 14ff is no shimming to set side preload and external shimming for pinion depth--good first axle to do for a newb like me. Good luck
 

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Well I’m reusing the gears so I shouldn’t need to re shim. That carrier shim has some good meat that I can mic to get the original thickness to replace. Just annoying I went from replacing a carrier to a complete rebuild lol.
The pinion bearings actually looked good but since they’re out I’m going to replace them.
 

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Well, the bearings are toast. And even with a chip off the pinion, that force could have caused minute cracks elsewhere.
You'll have to give the entire housing a good flush and I'd still use a magnetic filler plug on the rebuild.
Keep us posted.
 

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