A future owner might want to know. Moreover, I have a 3.91 pumpkin
with the stampings. It appears that removing the stamping from the
axle housing will take more grinding while it was just a little on
the pumpkin which can be easily changed.
At 06:41 AM 1/13/2011 -0500, BJ8 Healeys wrote:
>John, I've had a 3.54 Lempert gear set in my BJ8 since February 2002, and it
>never occurred to me to obliterate the original markings. Why do that? If
>you do it on the diff, why not the axle housing, too? The diff is so
>robust it isn't likely that anyone will ever need to do any replacement of
>the gears again unless they want to go back to the original 3.9, and in that
>case they would want the original markings.
>
>I converted my car to negative ground, also, but I didn't obliterate the
>"positive earth" words on the tachometer.
>
>Steve Byers
>HBJ8L/36666
>BJ8 Registry
>Havelock, NC USA
>
>From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at
>autox.team.net]
>On Behalf Of john spaur
>Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 12:42 AM
>To: healeys at autox.team.net
>Subject: [Healeys] 3.54 Gear Set - Pumpkin Stamping
>
>Are people remembering to sand out the 11/43 stamping and to replace
>it with 11/39? The axle housing is stamped too but I did not change
>that; only the stamping on the diff.
>
>John
>'62 BT7
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