Ring Gear Shaft: Assembly
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- Using drift (A) (commercial service tool), install drive shaft oil seal (1) within the dimension (L) shown as follows.
L
: 2.0 +0.6/-0 mm (0.079 +0.024/-0 in)
CAUTION:- Do not reuse the oil seal.
- When installing, do not incline oil seal.
- Apply multi-purpose grease onto oil seal lips, and gear oil onto the circumference of the oil seal.
- Select ring gear bearing adjusting shim (transfer case side) and ring gear bearing adjusting shim (transfer cover side). Refer to Adjustment .
- Assemble the selected ring gear bearing adjusting shim (transfer case side) and ring gear bearing outer race (transfer case side) to transfer case. Refer to Assembly .CAUTION:
- Do not reuse ring gear bearing.
- Apply gear oil to the ring gear bearing.
- Assemble the selected ring gear bearing adjusting shim (transfer cover side) and ring gear bearing outer race (transfer cover side) to transfer cover. Refer to Assembly .CAUTION:
- Do not reuse ring gear bearing.
- Apply gear oil to the ring gear bearing.
- Install the ring gear to ring gear shaft, and tighten mounting bolts to the specified torque.
- Install ring gear bearing inner race (transfer cover side) with drift (A) (commercial service tool).CAUTION:
- Do not reuse ring gear bearing.
- Apply gear oil to the ring gear bearing.
- Install the ring gear bearing inner race (transfer case side) to ring gear shaft with drift (A) (commercial service tool).CAUTION:
- Do not reuse ring gear bearing.
- Apply gear oil to the ring gear bearing.
- Install the ring gear shaft assembly to the transfer case.CAUTION: Protect transfer case oil seals beforehand from being damaged by the spline of ring gear shaft below method following.
- Install transfer cover to check and adjust each part. Refer to Assembly .NOTE: At this timing, O-ring installing to transfer cover is not necessary. Install O-ring after backlash and tooth contact are checked.
- Check backlash, tooth contact, total preload and companion flange runout. Refer to Adjustment .CAUTION: Measure the total preload without oil seals of transfer cover and transfer case.
- Reinstall transfer cover for installing O-ring. Refer to Assembly .
- After installing transfer case oil seals, remove wrapped vinyl from the spline of ring gear shaft.