How does this sound? (gear install)

['854runnah]

I went to a local shop today to see what they charged for setting up gears. They qouted me at about 750 if I pulled the third members my self. there labor is 50 an hour and he said it would take a bout 3 hours, they us Yukon gears and a master install kit. How dose this sound?
Thanks

[Rescue]

They are charging a bit more than they should but not by much. It does take alot of time. You have to remove the old bearings, races etc. What takes the most time is setting them up. It took me 4 hours for just one 3rd to get the right contact between the ring&pinion then get good backlash. Every time that the contact is not good you have to press out the bearings again and add/remove shims.We centered them perfectly. The second one took about 1 1/2 hr because we knew the amount of shims to use. All in all if I remember correctly it took us about 10hrs to do 2 members.

I hope that the place has a good reputation, sometimes they will just assemble them up and not try to center them perfectly. If you want them perfect You might try to learn it!

[Oatmeal]

I would try and find out what brand of gears they used. Yukon is not an actual brand, it's just a name Randy's hangs on the gears and products they sell. If it's U.S. Gear brand or Precision, Superior or one of the higher quality brands that's a pretty decent price. Beware of cheap imports (ie. Genuine Gear:eek: ), though!.....Rescue, a good trick for setting pinion depth is to take your old pinion bearings and hone them out a bit (a brake cylinder hone works good) to a firm, slip fit and once you figure out shim thickness replace them with the new bearings. Nine times out of ten the setting won't change (bearings are machined to pretty percise tolerances) then save them for you next gear set up. Thus, "set up" bearings ;) ........Hans

['854runnah]

I hope that the place has a good reputation, sometimes they will just assemble them up and not try to center them perfectly. If you want them perfect You might try to learn it!
It's a new place, and the only one with in a 2 1/2 hour drive:( But the guys that run the place just joined the biggest New England forum so i would imagine that they would want to start off with a good review by me seeing that there are new and the only shop that i know of in southern maine.
And as far as gears, the guy said he never uses imported gears. So the price dosn't sound too bad? I was thinking even if they were a little high I might save the differance on gas going to another place.

[Rescue]

You can also ask the place your going to go if you can watch how they do it. If they agree you will gain some knowledge and you might want to do it yourself next time...