[Fot] TR4 diff disassembly

[Peter Vucinic]

Bob,
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http://www.74tr6.com/6-tech.htm


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Peter Vucinic
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-----Original Message-----
From: fot-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces at autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Bob Kramer
Sent: Sunday, 29 September 2013 12:32 AM
To: Mark J Bradakis
Cc: fot at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Fot] TR4 diff disassembly

Does anyone else remember the early 6-Pack articles by Len Renkenberger? He
had a series on some of the tougher jobs like TR6 diffs making your own
special tools. He also covered rear hubs. Great stuff. 

Bob Kramer
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> On Sep 27, 2013, at 7:50 PM, Mark J Bradakis <mark at bradakis.com> wrote:
> 
> christopher bock wrote:
>> Is the spit/gt6 diff kind of the same thing?  Where you need to squeeze
the case to get the diff out?
>> 
>> I haven't gotten to disassemble the diff in my spit but couldn't you
grind a little of the case away to make removal easier?
> 
> Yes, you could set it up so the carrier and its bearings are easy to drop
in and easy to pull out.
> Which would be nice, because you would be doing it a LOT.  With no 
> preload and a few thousandths of slop, the bearings will be destroying 
> themselves on a regular basis.  And as the carrier shifts back and 
> forth messing up the mesh between the pinion and crown gear, you'd hear
odd noises, really odd noises when it would be time to replace those, too.
> 
> mjb.
> 
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