- 3,021
- 221
- 63
- Location
- eldersburg maryland
as bearings wear and need adjusting the gear lash needs adjusting. plus if it was ever done by the army it is wrong.
Steel Soldiers now has a few new forums, read more about it at: New Munitions Forums!
Well in order for gear wear to be a factor, you would have to have a LOT of metal shaved off of the teeth of those very hard gears, left lying in the hub to make a significant difference In lash.Correct, so that's why Steve's method would take into account for spider gears/bearings and the hub bearing wear. Setting it to the factory settings would only take in account the hub bearings not the spider gears/bearings.
Realistically, there isn't much wear to account for. Our trucks aren't driven enough, or hard enough. So it's not similar to videos of people checking the slop on the ring and pinion of an axle with 100,000 miles on it. So "just setting them up the same as before" isn't a bad option, if you weren't having problems, because even 10,000 miles on them would barely be breaking them in (as far as change goes).There has to be a different result. New gears with precise new parts vs old gears and parts with wear and break in. If it doesn’t matter then if everything is currently running good and no issues at all, why would anyone bother even though they say it should be done annually, unless there is wear to count for. There for just setting them up the same as before would only be putting it back the same as factory. Unless only the wheel bearings wear and need adjustment and the spider gears don’t wear but we all know things wear and out of tolerance.
I recommend leaving them alone for now. I'm sure you have plenty of other things to check or rebuild, but I'd spend the time and money on something else (instead of the hubs), like putting good synthetic gear oil in the axles/hubs.No noises or any other problems. Just occasional gear oil that comes out the rear dif vent cap. The tires are wearing nice and even, I keep them at 85psiwhile on paved roads and was considering doing a hub and seal overhaul before I leave “ OR “when I get back???
They look like LMTV axles, or very close relatives. I think what he was saying was they came off an LMTV, hub gearing was removed, and were destined for a truck that weighed 1/2 as much as an LMTV. If you weld the planets, you put all the torque directly on the axle shafts, and they were only meant to handle 1/2 that (2:1 ratio). So unless you're using them with smaller tires, on a smaller truck, etc. you're just going to break things and have other problems. Yes, they have some safety margin on the design.
What's your goal?
as bearings wear and need adjusting the gear lash needs adjusting. plus if it was ever done by the army it is wrong.
M1089A1P2 LTAS Wrecker weighs 40,050 lbs and has a towed load rating of 55,000 lbs. For a combined weight of 95,050 lbs.I'm not sure what an LMTV weighs when up armored and pulling a trailer as designed......
I updated it with specs.with what motor?
We get it, advertisements are annoying!
Sure, ad-blocking software does a great job at blocking ads, but it also blocks useful features of our website like our supporting vendors. Their ads help keep Steel Soldiers going. Please consider disabling your ad blockers for the site. Thanks!