[6pack] Differential Pinion shaft seal

[Sally or Dick Taylor]

Darcy---I don't think there is a spacer in the cavity where the seal
resides. I must've been part of the seal, as there is no need of a
spacer here. This seal will stay put after inserting.

Dick

 From: Darcy_Hunter at Instron.com(Hunter, Darcy)

An update and a question, I am in the middle of refurbishing the rear
end of my TR6 with the intention of replacing the trailing arm bushings
and differential seals. As expected, the rust was worse than anticipated
and I've now cut-out and cleaned and have prepped 8 new 16 gauge patch
panels to weld in. Found a guy down the road who welds and will come
over and put them all in for $100, cash of course. That seems like the
best approach as I'm a bad welder and worse on my back in tight
quarters. All the associated rear end parts have been cleaned and
painted so they are ready to go but I have a question on the reassembly
of the differential pinion seal.

 When I took out the pinion seal, there appeared to be some type of
funny washer or spacer either behind the seal or it was part of the
seal. Couldn't quite tell because I had the mangle the seal so bad to
get it out. This is not a flat washer but wavy or almost correlated and
aligned in the Z direction. TRF doesn't show this in the catalog but
does talk about a spacer. Any help is appreciated because I'm getting
ready to start the reassembly and hoping to finish in the next 5-6
weeks. Thanks
Darcy Hunter
'73 TR6
North Easton, MA
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