I am sorry, I was confusing myself, and also talking myself into having a
problem. I appreciate everyone bringing this to my attention so quickly.
By the way, is today still a Monday? It sure feels like it.
--McCoy Reed
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Andrew Mace wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, McCoy Reed wrote:
>
> > I am in the midst of restoring an 80 spit, and have come to a very
> > confusing problem that seems to reside in the rear differential. The
> > vehicle mentioned above is up on stands in my garage. The symptoms that I
> > have been experiencing are:
> > 1: When I rotate the rear Passenger side tire forward or reverse,
>the
> > opposite tire goes in the opposite direction (i.e. one goes
> > forward while the other goes into reverse).
> > 2: There is complete free play with the tires, whether or not the
> > transmission is engaged in gear.
> > 3: When the tires are being turned, the driveshaft doesn't have any
> > motion at all.
> > 4: I can tell that the two propeller shafts that come out from the
> > differential to the wheels are in deed rotating.
> >
> > The combination of all this information leads me to think that the problem
> > resided in the differential.
>
> Maybe I'm confused or misunderstanding here (hey, it happens a lot), but
> what exactly is/was the problem? Seems to me that what you've described
> above is absolutely normal; it is the way a normal differential works.
>
> Now if you've got noises, clunks or something like that, or if the car
> doesn't move at all when the wheels are on the ground, engine running,
> clutch engaged with transmission in a gear, then you've got a problem
> somewhere.
>
> --Andy
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