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Different than dmax forum, lol, trucks liking good don, love the sight.
You sir, are brave! I have always been deeply intimidated by transmissions and their inner-workings. Looks like you have a good handle on the build though! I am impressed.
Great work Don, again what book is that you got.When doing some tranny work on my Dmax I used some foil cooking tubs from the dollar store for drain pans, soaking clutch packs and such. Nice and then you throw them away.
My service lit is showing the front clutch stackup as followssteel/dis/steel/disc/steel/disc/reaction plate. clutch stackups can vary according to the unit but it looks like either way a steel goes against the pressure plate. are you running one of the thinner pressure plates designed to allow for more frictions/steels in the assembly? page 577 shows the clearance for the OD unit, you dont need the special tool, just a known flat bar of a given thickness. the special tool is .5 in thick so use the specs provided but substitute whatever thickness your "special tool" is. IIRC I used the shank of a prybar (it was the only thing I had that would span across the case). It is a tricky measurment I`ll admit.One more thing, I dont see an alignment shaft in the OD assembly as it was going back together in the press, you will need to have the splines in there all aligned in order to get the OD unit back onto the output shaft, and that giant honkin spring needs to be compressed in order for those splines to be free to align them. I used my old intermediate shaft and cut it down in length a bit to fit in the press (I put in a new int shaft due to the 5 pinion front planetary having diff splines than the alum 4 pinion deal requiring the new int shaft).