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Originally Posted by ghoti
The same as having and Un-shimmed diff. All shimming does is "engage/lock" the diff much quicker.
Life expectancy depends on how you drive your car.
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No, not exactly. Yes to how you drive the car but for example the post I just made was on backlash (which is in other words, 'play'). If you have none at all or too much then you're going to advance the wear of the differential. And when I say no I mean more so that re-assembly is where you have to be worried and not so much on the actual shimming of the diff..
Now I know I did basically come off as "dgaf drift car bro" but in all seriousness yes, if you don't do this correctly you'll likely increase the rate of wear of your gears and possibly have a weird contact/pattern (which you can check by looking at the pattern that's already on the ring gear and using some gear paint to see if it has the same original pattern )and between them and you'll have that annoying whine x100000. And again, all this shit is cheap anyways so fuck it do what you want. I bought the s13 vlsd for $80 and the spare/extra open diff. for $10 so say I fuck up I wont be all that devastated.
Hope I made at least some sense, typing on a tiny iPhone 'keyboard' is a bitch.