Ring gear and pinion mesh

[crash340]

Gents,
Attached are some pics of my ring gear and pinion mesh, how does it look? as for driving noise, there is a little whine on coast right at around 35-40 MPH, outside that it seems quiet, the other noise I have out the back is low speed coast in drive around 20MPH it sounds like a clunky rattle! I have a brand new Eaton Trutrac and all new bearings (not axle bearings)

[jhaag]

looks like pinion too deep. Pattern should be in the middle of the tooth. Is it correctly by specs? Also too much backlash will make it noisy?

[crash340]

I rebuilt a factory centre with new bearings and shimmed the pinion as per how the factory had set it up, I agree it could be out a smidge further, backlash is on the tighter side. Im about set to change housings to a B body width so will re check again when its out.