I've never done this job (I have a banjo), but I'm gathering that the lack
of 1/100th of an inch of space requires using a spreader tool? Heck, I'd get
out the grinder, too, in that situation. How did they ever let that out of
engineering? Good grief...
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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
on 7/14/05 2:28 PM, Dodd, Kelvin at doddk@mossmotors.com wrote:
> Bob:
>
> I've run into this too and figured it was just a tolerance issue.
> Either that or North American molecules are a different size.
>
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> Kelvin Dodd
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bob Howard [mailto:mgbob@juno.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 12:07 PM
>> To: Dodd, Kelvin
>> Cc: mgb-v8@autox.team.net; mgs@autox.team.net
>> Subject: Re: Rear axle
>>
>> Kelvin,
>> During the winter when some of us in our club were taking apart
>> Salisbury rear axles to see what was inside, we were able to remove
> the
>> gearsets from the two we tried w/o using the spreader tool, which we
>> didn't have anyway.
>> Were there manufacturing tolerances great enough that sometimes the
>> tool was not required?
>> Do you suppose it could be that some DPO simply filed off .010 from
>> the case for clearance?
>> Bob
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