Originally Posted by
Cain
curious, anyone got tips on tranny case assembly to keep the shims from moving when doing assembly. That is probably the biggest annoyance for me is when I got to change up the diff, the shims want to move on me when I do assembly.
+1, same thing here. It's just one of those tedious elements of buggy maintenance. They don't so much move on me when I get them in the output shaft diff half. It's just that it is not easy to get the other half of the case over them w/o bending or deforming the shim in some way. The shims are .1mm and bend/deform easily.
I have put a VERY little amount of black grease between the two shims and the inner shim and the bearing, and they seem to stick together and to the bearing so at least they go into the case evenly with the diff. Then its just getting the other half on.
Don't know if this is the 'best way' since the grease is a dirt/dust magnet but like I said a minute amount of grease.