Ford 9" set-up

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Ford 9" set-up

Post  460bronco on February 10th 2011, 6:36 pm

I'm about to put my first set of gears in a ford 9" and had a quick question.

When moving my ring gear left and right with the adjuster nuts during set-up, how tight do the main cap bolts need to be? Are they just snug or do they need to be almost fully torqued down? Any opinions are greatly appreciated!

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Re: Ford 9" set-up

Post  JACKAZZFLATZ on February 11th 2011, 2:20 pm

Not sure how everyone else does it, i just leave 'em snug. Enough to hold everything together, and be sure that nothing is cross threaded. Made a spanner wrench outta a stick of 1/4 x 1 flat iron, and a coupla 1/4-20 bolts. Final torque after everything is set. Seems to work for me.

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Post  BIGDOG466 on February 16th 2011, 4:30 pm

I just snug it down (10-15 ft lbs) you get it too tight maybe it will bind up the adjusters. I try to adj mine until the bearing caps spread out .010 so there is preload on the bearings. X2 on the flat iron adj tool got to have that

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Re: Ford 9" set-up

Post  richter69 on February 16th 2011, 6:54 pm

The stock cases just snug them as stated, the aftermarket units with the billet caps the adjusters will turn with the caps at full torque

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