As usual, thank you to all who promptl replied. One of my faults is that I
tend to get impatient so I went back under the car for another look.
The answer was in the bearing retention plate. While the holes that mount it
are perfectly square, the shape of the plate is not. It's tapered on the
sides to match the taper of the diff housing and this of course makes all the
difference in the world. After repositioning the plate correctly, there were
no futher problems.
I've got the car off the jackstands now, and might even have functioning
emergency brakes, as I decided to tighten up the cables back there while I had
the wheels off, being that the cables are new and have never been properly
tightened.
By the way, that spring tensioning tool that one of the list members was
fabricating and selling a few years ago (which I bought and feared I might
never have a use for) worked wonders in lining up the spring with the top of
the vertical link. I shudder to think of how much more difficult the task
would have been without it.
Time to grab the cell phone and go for a road test. Wish me luck.
Take care,
Jeff in San Diego
1968 Spitfire Mk3 aka "Mrs. Jones"
Back on the road 3/17/03... right back off six days later...
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----- Original Message -----
From: John T. Blair
To: Jeff McNeal
Cc: spitfires@autox.team.net
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: Need a suggestion...
At 02:52 PM 3/26/03 -0800, Jeff McNeal wrote:
>After receiving the correct circlip for the one that seemed to be missing
from
>my stub axle (!), I reassembled the suspension just awhile ago and was
feeling
>quite pleased with myself -- until I tried to insert the bolts between the
>outer axle flange and diff flange. They can only be inserted one way,
with
>the head of the bolt on the inside, otherwise, the threaded side will
sheer
>off against the allen head bolts for the bearing retaining plate on the
diff.
Jeff,
I don't know if this will work, but have you tried slowly turning the
flange
and looking for a place that you can insert the bolt. I believe it's on
the
spit that you this problem. It's been a while since I pulled the rear
1/2 shafts, but I think I got the bolts out, but there is only one spot
that
you can do it from.
John
John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: jblair@exis.net
Va. Beach, Va Phone: (757) 495-8229
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