Rear gear change
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Burning Brakes
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Rear gear change
Is it necessary to remove the differential to swap ring and pinion gears? Can the gears be changed--want to put 4.10 gears in a 2009 manual-- with differential in the car or must I drop torque tube, trans and diff as a unit to get diff off trans for gear change? Thanks for your help.
Racer
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Is it necessary to remove the differential to swap ring and pinion gears? Can the gears be changed--want to put 4.10 gears in a 2009 manual-- with differential in the car or must I drop torque tube, trans and diff as a unit to get diff off trans for gear change? Thanks for your help.
2. If you gotta ask question, then you really should leave the install to a 'seasoned veteran' installer.
Best of luck!
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Drifting
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Is it necessary to remove the differential to swap ring and pinion gears? Can the gears be changed--want to put 4.10 gears in a 2009 manual-- with differential in the car or must I drop torque tube, trans and diff as a unit to get diff off trans for gear change? Thanks for your help.
If you're doing the R&R but not the the gear work itself, you can leave the torque tube in and drop the gear/cradle as one unit then remove the rear end from the cradle to ship.
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Burning Brakes
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Not going to do the actual gear change myself--just wanted to know how much work was involved and if I could save some money by removing diff myself. Thanks for your replies.
Drifting
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Lots of write up here or over at ls1tech.
Here is my version:
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...cal-style.html
Here is my version:
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...cal-style.html
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St. Jude Donor '15
Yep, can drop rear cradle and pull the rear end off that way. I've done it on a C5 but not a C6.. they're close enough.
That is what I would do. No way in hell I'd try to change/setup the gears in one of these.
That is what I would do. No way in hell I'd try to change/setup the gears in one of these.
