just shooting the breeze here...not much content....
I'm in the middle of replacing the complete rear axle on my TR 4A... I
pulled it yesterday. (I have a rebuilt replacement with 4.1:1 on
stand-by.) I didn't have to pull the rear cover to know it was bad...
so I had not looked before. Now that it was out of the car, I went
ahead and pulled the cover....
Wow... What a mess... The crown wheel looks like some sort of
turbo-charger... the space between the gears have been smoothed out for
better "air flow"... and the high points have knife-sharp edges... and
I'm not sure how to describe the king pin, except to say, it's not
recognizable. There's not as much metal filing sludge as I thought
there'd be, but it's well represented.
I will admit... that at a certain point along the game... when I knew
the rear was shot... and I was tired of topping off the leaks... I
allowed the oil to get low... So this compounded things... If I had
been more vigilant about that, perhaps the unit would have been
rebuildable.
I can pretty much say.... there's nothing in this rear worth keeping
except the housing. Which, because it's a TR 4A solid axle... I guess
it's rare enough... that I should hang onto it. (Just the kind of part
I'd rather NOT have laying about!)
Anyways...I thought I'd share the moment.
--Justin
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