[waggoner5]

I have done this many times before and the pinion has stayed seated. This time, the pinion fell into the housing somewhat and I was wondering if just pulling it back up to the seat and tighten back to the original spec is OK? I used a torque wrench to remove, used it to reinstall, then tightened to the mark on the nut. It was very close to the mark usiong the same torque that it took to remove. What do you think?
Gary

 

[wngrog]

Once the crush sleave has been crushed, then you can just remove and reinstall at will.

 

[waggoner5]

I had done it before with no problems. I just want someone other than you to verify. Someone that still has Toyota parts.

 

[dd113]

If you get it back to the proper torque value and it does not wobble then you should be fine. It wil flop around without the washer or nut on it.

 

[wngrog]

I had done it before with no problems. I just want someone other than you to verify. Someone that still has Toyota parts.

Eat me. I have done my share.

To get it on initially with a new setup kit, you really need to torque the hell out of it to crush the sleve.

Once the sleve is crushed as is your case....all you need to do is tighten it back up nicely. It won't take the 90 or so lbs to get it back tight.

 

[Pin Head]

If you have stock OEM FJ40 gears, then you don't have to worry about any crush sleeve because they don't have one. The preload is set using shims. Just torque it back to 140-160 ft lbs and you are done.

Crush sleeves are designed to be used once and not reused, so when you change your seal you should use a new crush sleeve.

You can get away with reusing them, but you want to be sure that your pinion preload is the same value as before you took the flange off. You tighten the pinion nut until the preload is correct. This will be much less that the torque that it originally takes to crush the sleeve.
I would err on the side of making the preload lighter than too tight, as long as there is no detectable play in the bearing. As tight pinion bearing won't last long.

 

[waggoner5]

"Eat me. I have done my share"

I was just ribbing you, you moron. I value your opinion just like the rest. Go back to sleep.

 

[RHINO]

"Eat me. I have done my share"

come on nolen, we all know you bought kate just as she is from the JEEP trader:flipoff2:

 

[chef]

If I remember right-and I usually don't- '84 on toyota stuff does use a crush sleeve...

 

[Cruzilla]

What PinHead said! he's on the money!

 

[wngrog]

All of my "kits" that come with aftermarket gears have come with Crush sleeves.

I thought Gary had regeared his FJ-62...but I may be wrong.

Anyway, seems he got the answer he is looking for

 

[chef]

11/84-1/98 use crush sleeves...I dunno about after that, I don't have books that go that new

 

[Cruzilla]

When I installed ARB's we used shims, it was kind of a pain to keep swaping to get it rite but now I can replace the seals with no worries just retorque at 145# and be done with it!