Ok I'm stumped. Rear end help please!

Ok guys I made a dumbass mistake...I've been using a dummy pinion bearing during this process...when I pulled it off this morning I realized there was a shim that had aloof let affixed itself to the bottom of the dummy bearing, a pretty thick one too! So every test I did was pointless and that's why even going down to .011 of shim showed a high pinion still. Doh!!!! Just tried out .024 of shim and it's much closer. Now that it's behaving like it should, I should be able to get it dialed in. Thanks for all the help, I'll be back after starting back at square 1! Gaahhhhh!