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How much slack was in your yoke after you set your crush sleeve? When I line up my marks I can pull/push the yoke in and out about 1/16". One more revolution is way too tight...
If you have already overtightened it,and I am sure that you have. There is no getting close or guessing. Once the crush sleeve is crushed too far its too late. You have to remove the crush sleeve and replace it,or at a minimum cheater,backyard you can use a hammer and a piece of pipe to try to stretch some of the crush out,but getting preload is done with the differential out. So unless you are going to do it right the only thing you can do is use an eliminator kit and go for zero movement then go a couple of thousands thinner it won't be right but won't be horrible. Or take some of the crush out of the crush sleave,reinstall it tighten it until you have no in and out movement then tighten it a tiny bit more..Checking where with your torque wrench in the beginning would have you no good anyway.
He already overtightened it ,which would would crush the sleeve more. He says on his second post " I tightened it 1 turn more,but that was way too tight" that tells me an already crushed crush sleeve has now been crushed some more and too much. If he hadn't given it that last turn I'd think things could be fudged but once you've gone 1 turn too many you can't just loosen it backup.
Yep my first thought, and actually started writing it as using a solder ring,then it occurred too me it's a crush sleeve as long as I find the gap I can make up the rest with the crush sleeve. No need to assemble and disassemble for the solder. I've also used solder to check deck clearance on assembled engines.
It was too late for O.P. to do it that way. Good catch on dead thread resurrected. On the brightside maybe others will read this before they make the same mistake.
