[Spridgets] Bugeye diff

Weslake1330 weslake1330 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 9 14:37:35 MST 2020


I guess it's been a while since I said there are books with this stuff in!
 + You have to watch you don't end with no filler on the pumpkin and no
filler on the axle casing.

On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 at 20:24, EDWARD WOODS via Spridgets <
spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:

> Thanks. Now I understand. I was confusing diff housing with axle housing.
>
> Ed
>
> On January 9, 2020 at 2:13 PM Rick Fisk via Spridgets <
> spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
>
> I believe the Moss info is a little misleading.  Later differentials will
> fit the Bugeye axle with no problem.  What Moss is talking about is that
> the later gearsets will not fit in the original Bugeye differential
> housing, not the axle housing.  Just swap the entire pumpkin and you're
> good.  I just installed a 3.7 diff in a Bugeye axle a few days ago.  :-)
>
> Sent from my keyboard
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> On Jan 9, 2020, at 2:09 PM, CosmicMag1380 via Spridgets <
> spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> If my memory is any good, all years Sprite and Midget, Morris Minor and
> Metropolitan pumpkins will interchange. The early spridgets had 4:22 gears,
> middle years had 3:90, and the 78 and up had 3:70. The Morris Minor had
> 5:38 (or 4:55, I don't quite recall) and the Metro had 4:22.
>
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 1:03 PM EDWARD WOODS via Spridgets <
> spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> What diff gears will swap into a Bugeye housing? None of the new gears
> that Moss have will.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ed Woods
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