Hmm,
Greg Smith, by cover, did you mean the fill hole plug?
Greg Schluge, there is no 'cover' on the diff, it is a
housing. Which is a structural member, carrying the
rear spring loads into the chassis via the ears on the
back, and through the diff unit to the mounts on the
front. IMHO, splitting the housing just to drain the
fluid is like swatting a fly with a sledgehammer.
Early model Spitfires have a drain plug on the bottom.
If yours does not, then use a suction tube through the
drain hole to remove the fluid.
But why drain it? Unless it's contaminated, just top
it off. If you are getting noises and such, then it
will have to come out for service anyway, which will
require disassembly. That's no doubt the logic BLMC
used when eliminating the drain plug.
Hope this helps, just trying to save you several hours
of dirty, nasty sweaty work for no real purpose.
Carter Shore
--- Gregory Smith <gsmith@cvn.net> wrote:
>
> Rear end takes 1 Imperial pint / 1.2 US pints of
> SAE90 Hypoid Gear Oil.
>
> That is a fill plug; drain by removing the cover...
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