First time Dana 60 set up

[chief_shotts]

Setting up my first Dana 60 ring and pinion. New carrier. New ring gear and pinion. So far after a lot of trial and error I have achieved the pictured pattern. Pattern seems good to me. Backlash is reading between .006 and .009.

Is this pattern what I’m loooking for?
Is backlash variation of +\-.003 acceptable?

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[chief_shotts]

decided to go ahead and adjust pinion depth slightly to see what would happen. Ended up pulling .001 thou out of pinion depth. Backlash now varries between .005 and .008 thou.
I want to say I like this pattern slightly more but I’ll see what everybody else thinks.

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