It was`nt a matter of trust, it was internet jabber albiet ford. I guess I was tring to avoid 250 ft-lb cause it takes my whole body weight to get 150 ft-lbs LOL
LOL... no big deal. Just had to throw that in there to be ornery. Do you have a yoke holder? That makes torqueing the pinion nut a lot easier. If you don't have one their not too hard to make. There's a couple home made ones in the "home made tool thread" that guys made real easy. Here's a link to the thread and you'll find them in post # 162 and 228
http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/showthread.php?t=58818&page=8
3rd members aren't easy to chuck up in a vise. Not sure how your holding yours but there's also a post there where I showed my home made adapter to bolt a 8-3/4 unit to a engine stand to make servicing easy. You'll find it in post # 143
contrary to your pinion preload statement pinion shim change does change preload.
As far as shim stack, I understand all that, My kit came with 30s20s10s and 8s. .023 was needed, ol Doc had a 23 but the id was smaller and od was bigger. I had to modify, took an hour+ to do that.
