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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