master bearing kit...installation kit... wtf??
 

For the gears, are both of these kits recommended to use? My car is right at 30K so its half way to the recommended point to get new bearings but...do I need both of these? or just one?? PLEASE someone help.

Get the bearings and call it a day. Its best to just replace them whenever you do a gear swap.

I did mine at about 40 and I just used the install kit. mine is perfectly fine.

so is it like, one or the other? is one better or more recommended over another? what are they for??? :censored: arrgghhhh I'm so lost!!!

hey retard read the thread on gears. you should know this by now.

buy install kit if you are poor, and bearing kit if youve got a couple extra bucks. also stop acting like a crybaby over your gears.

lol nice... way to be supportive

Well, weve went through this for 4 solid months of retarted gear questions. I went and got my gears done, took pictures, and came home and did a huge write up so we could avoid this nonsense. You also know there are numerous threads asking about install kits and bearing kits so if you would of searched, you would of found your answer.

i only got 25000 miles i went with bearing kit, wateva and yes its one or the other

dannyb... here's the nice and polite plain english of it:

If you change your gears, change your bearings. You're already in there, and it's 100 bucks of cheap insurance. A master rebuild kit should come with the bearings, races, shims, pinion crush sleeve, clutches and steels. If the kit you get doesn't have the clutches and steels that's ok. If you needed them you'd know. Get all the other stuff.

Bearings are just that. They bear the brunt of the torture applied to your back end. 99 times of 100 they'll be fine and not need it but if they do and you don't spot it, you'll have bad things happen at bad times.

Shims allow the adjustment of the engagement depth of the gears. If they're not set up with the right tolerances you'll have trouble you don't want.

The clutches and steels are just like the clutch of a transmission except there's several friction surfaces stacked together. that allows one wheel to turn faster than the other when going around a corner. It's your "limited slip" system. These don't usually wear out for a long long long long time. If they're bad, you usually know for certain.

Where I'm at, the local gear shops have 3 levels of install goodies:
Install kit usually has shims, bolts, seals, pinion nut and a crush sleeve.
Rebuild/overhaul kit has the above with clutches and steels, and usually a bearing kit
Bearing kits have usually either just bearings or the install kit plus bearings.

You know what you need now. Now go get it.

Reading is a virtue...

LOL at matt. Get em boy. Danny, do it all while you are in there.

All I can say is... get the bearings and you will sleep better :foot:

Wut else do you expect from the U.S.S red mustang?(dannyb)

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