5:13 gears- lesson learned.

[xcd]

Maybe most people already know this. But I didn’t. I have done a few gear swaps mostly on older Dana 30,s,44’s,& 60’s. I never had to deal with shimmed cups on the carrier or a crush sleeve. Fast forward 25 years since my last and now I have. Shimmed cups instead of shimming bearings is ok other than when your trying to get backlash just right along with preload and you have shim stacks it’s more of a pain than slip fit set up bearings and bearing shims. The factory grinds shims to spec so you have a single behind each cup. I didn’t have an over size to surface grind so I had to play with stacking on each side. Not the end of the earth but I was not super stoked on it. Hard to keep all in place when putting carrier in.
My front crush sleeve was fairly easy. The rear was a bear. Like makes torquing any other bolt on your suspension seem finger tight in comparison. I hate them and I know there is a work around with shims but I was committed and that was that.
Last one was the big one. Road test great. I knew it would be I got patterns really good. But when I did a test In 4 low within a few hundred yards I got a service 4WD. When going back into 2H it left the service light on and the 4low stayed illuminated along with the 2H.
pulled in my drive an knew there was an issue. Jacked the front tires off the ground and they were still engaged. They did then disengage. I also was getting a sway bar disconnected error. Crazy stuff. I think about what I did what I didn’t do and what I should do.
Researched and found someone said be sure to set your tazer to the proper tire size and gear ratio or you can get a service 4WD. Humm- guess I should try it even though that shouldn’t be the issue. It was. Your front hub sensors have to match trans output speed and RPM. When those don’t jive the computers decide something is wrong and freak out. I called my son in law and before I could finish asking the the question he was already saying I need to reset the ratios in the tazer.
so lesson learned. As he said, time to get on point with all this new fangled technology!

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[ZeeJay]

I feel that. Used to be if so inclined just change a $3 gear and send it. This truck is far smarter than my other 30 year old Jeeps, ludicrously smarter.

 

[JTGuy]

I feel like a dinosaur flying a jet fighter.

 

[kevman65]

I feel like a dinosaur flying a jet fighter.

Yup, but a happy dinosaur........

 

[mdyucca]

I have a love/hate relationship with the Tazer. My son says the Tazer is intuitive and easy set up. At 70 it doesn’t matter if it’s a TV remote or a Tazer nothing is intuitive. Good to hear you conquered the new style Dana.

 

[xcd]

I have a love/hate relationship with the Tazer. My son says the Tazer is intuitive and easy set up. At 70 it doesn’t matter if it’s a TV remote or a Tazer nothing is intuitive. Good to hear you conquered the new style Dana.

The Tazer is not intuitive for me either. It does not what it needs to do but there should be an easier way to navigate the through the set up.

 

[Panthers65]

The Tazer is not intuitive for me either. It does not what it needs to do but there should be an easier way to navigate the through the set up.

There are some really good youtube videos on how to work through the prompts and mess with the Tazer, I'm a visual learner, hate reading, but if someone shows me once I'll know it forever. For me the YouTube videos are so valuable because I can watch someone else perform a step, pause the video, perform the step, and then unpause for the next step.

 

[kevman65]

The biggest thing with the Tazer, after you make a change you HAVE to do a reboot and two sleep cycles. EVERY SINGLE CHANGE.

If you don't, it can hang up, not fully shut down, and drain your batteries.

It's just like your computer or smart phone getting a major update, there's a process the device HAS to go through to assure the update is properly loaded.
The difference is, the Tazer has to be done manually.

 

[xcd]

The biggest thing with the Tazer, after you make a change you HAVE to do a reboot and two sleep cycles. EVERY SINGLE CHANGE.

If you don't, it can hang up, not fully shut down, and drain your batteries.

It's just like your computer or smart phone getting a major update, there's a process the device HAS to go through to assure the update is properly loaded.
The difference is, the Tazer has to be done manually.

I’m more curious to hear if other people here have had the same issues after a gear swap as I did ? Hopefully this thread will help save someone else from getting the same scare I had. I still do gears the hard way- no lift and the first thing that hit me was a mid match set - the pain of a redo scared the crap out of me. Glad it was just a tazer set up.

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