Yes it is.
Gears are more involved that you realize. You need a few special tools to swap bearings, check preload, etc.
Let's just say I did my own once without the right tools, and got everything together, but didn't know you had to set preload or anything. That 10 bolt didn't last long, but it was fun. I was only 18 and learned a lesson, it's easier to swap a rear end, than to regear. At least I was working at a junkyard at the time and it was a junkyard truck that we took the gears from and a junkyard car that we put the gears in, so I wasn't out any money.
Paying to do gears isn't fun, but neither is a destroyed rear axle.
Gears are more involved that you realize. You need a few special tools to swap bearings, check preload, etc.
Let's just say I did my own once without the right tools, and got everything together, but didn't know you had to set preload or anything. That 10 bolt didn't last long, but it was fun. I was only 18 and learned a lesson, it's easier to swap a rear end, than to regear. At least I was working at a junkyard at the time and it was a junkyard truck that we took the gears from and a junkyard car that we put the gears in, so I wasn't out any money.
Paying to do gears isn't fun, but neither is a destroyed rear axle.
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