On Thu, 27 Mar 1997 DSand95510(at)aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 97-03-26 13:52:00 EST, jimc(at)sysdiv.SDL.usu.EDU (Jim
> Cantrell) writes:
>
> >> > It is a good practice to remove the differential cover on high
> >> > mileage cars every few years and torque the ring gear bolts to
> >> > specification. I have found many "on their way" to lossening. I
> >> > suspect that they take many years to complete their tortuous path to
> >> > destruction.
>
> Like Ramon, I've gone thru a number of differentials (not always
> high-mileage) and have always found at least some if not all of the ring gear
> bolts were finger-tight or at least severly undertorqued. Personally, I
> would take Ramon's suggestion to REPLACE all of the bolts rather than just
> re-torqueing them. If the bolts have started to come loose, then they've
If you replace the bolts on an Alpine differential (like my Series V),
does it change the relationship of the ring gear to the pinion? Or can
you just happily replace the bolts with new ones and carry on?
Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
gibbons(at)northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
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