Dana 60 crush sleeve or shims

[Whoknows]

So I picked up a 4.10 ring and pinion for a front Ford Dana 60 a while back. I’m reading that certain pinions were machined for shims and other for crush sleeves. How can I tell the difference?


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[Jody Treadway]

Super Duty era HP 60 use a crush sleeve from the factory. Previous ones and aftermarket replacement gear sets use shims. The gears interchange. You just have to use CS on a CS pinion and shims on a pinion machined for shims.

 

[adamk]

An easy way to identify whether crush sleeve or shimmed is to look at the outer bearing surface on the pinion. If the bearing surface immediately terminates into a step where the pinion gets larger, it uses shims. If the bearing surface ends, there there is a section of unmachined surface before stepping up in diameter, it uses crush sleeves.

Shimmed version

Crush sleeve version

 

[Whoknows]

Thanks! I’m thinking it’s the shimmed version.


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[Jody Treadway]

Thanks! I’m thinking it’s the shimmed version.


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Yes it is.

 

[enslow714]

I just turn a solid spacer to eliminate the crush sleeve.