Originally Posted by EricJ

Thanks for all the info!

If I put all the shims on that side it'd eat the gears alive. One of my diffs takes 3 shims on the gear side and 2 opposite, while the other takes 5 and 3. Mind you, I've played with it a lot and my friend that owned one long before me also went through a lot of this, so he gave me some pointers.