Just looked at what I wrote in that last post, and it isn't very clear. When I said,
He used grease to do his shimming and get the gear lash correct, I should have said, he used grease to check the contact patch between the pinion and ring gear instead of using the prussian blue for a tooth contact pattern check. This seems to be an effective way to do the shimming of the pinion and height spacing of the ring gear. But this being said, I don't know that there has ever been a Valkyrie final drive that needed a pinion or ring gear, and it is a lot of work and time to set them up. I have only seen the splines worn out, and even spending upwards of $350 for a new gear set depending on where you buy your parts, you are still ahead by pressing off the new splines and junking the new ring gear and pinion. You still end up with a like new final drive with much less effort and labor to get the needed results. In my limited experience, the ring gear and pinion show no wear at all even after extended use when set up by the factory.
Still seems like it would be fun to set one up completely new, but I have never seemed to want to invest the amount of time it would require. Also the time and expense to have a set of pinion shims and ring gear spacers, plus the building or acquiring of the special tools to do the pinion.
