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Re: rear diff. axel flange

To: elkhorn@megsinet.net, fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: rear diff. axel flange
From: Catpusher@aol.com
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 18:56:03 EDT
In a message dated 6/8/99 1:46:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
elkhorn@megsinet.net writes:

<< EP TR-6 out on the track.  After only 5 hot laps I  came in with a
 clunking sound.
        What I found was both the rear axle flanges broken.  I had taken the
 rear diff in for new seals & bearings and hate to think the local Ring
 &Pinion shop hadn't properly torqued the nuts. They both broke at the
 Key.... so Over torqued or Under torqued?  Lets see new engine,trans,4.1:1on
 a Detroit Locker....Could be Just toooooo much right ?   NNNNNNAAAAAAAAA.
          How many out there have suffered this fate?
         David Wingett
  >>
I should refuse to help "EP" TR6s on a moral basis; but have you
checked to see that the diff output shafts and hubs have the wide
key set up introduced after the TR4A street cars broke the early
parts?  

Did you lap the tapers?  I Do this on the Rear Axles that I Build
for customers. Torque, just a figure of speech?

 BTW I have  all the factory tools, including the pinion
depth gauge, for the TR2-6 Rear axles/ hubs, and have built a fair
number of these units.  

          Hardy
           Parked EP TR3

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