[Mac VP]

35 thou is much too thick for either retainer gasket. The gaskets in our sets are 8 thou. Ideally, you want to have little to no movement of either ball bearing. The two snap rings should be 0.075 to 0.077” thick. Don’t reuse old Ford snap rings….they started out at the correct thickness but over time they wear on their inner diameter (like a small shelf of wear on the flat surface). I’ve seen as much as 15 thou wear on them. Also, the bearing mfrs will often provide the new ball bearings with new snap rings but they always put thin rings on them…..generally about 64 thou thickness. We started having the correct rings made years ago for this reason.