Jim Muller writes:
> The Haynes and Bentley manuals
> just say politely "remove bolts and with a jack or a friend, gently lower the
> diff..." Uh-huh. Where are my fiends now. I wonder?
^^^^^^
Sounds like your fiends are right where everyone's fiends
are - exactly where you want them least, like freezing the leaf to the
diff.
In cases like this I find that a Sharp Whack often works better
than Big Force, like letting the car's weight bear on the part. The
shock of a S-W tends to loosen things, where B-F tends to bend them.
Either that, or the Sharp Whack f***s things up _Real Bad_.
But IME it seems to work pretty well.
Good luck,
ed devinney
PS: I had the misfortune of fitting a new top skin to my Miata last weekend,
after it was customized by Persons Unknown - probably a traveling Up With
People troupe or something. My neighbor, who has reskinned his various
Jags, Loti, and Alfas, was impressed by the easy fitting. Then again,
at $550 for the new cloth, maybe that should just stand to reason.
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