[Fot] TR4 diff disassembly

[Bud R]

I used Len's information quite often when sorting my TR6 early on.  
Really practical useful stuff.


Bud Rolofson

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On Sep 28, 2013, at 8:31 AM, Bob Kramer wrote:

> Does anyone else remember the early 6-Pack articles by Len  
> Renkenberger? He had a series on some of the tougher jobs like TR6  
> diffs making your own special tools. He also covered rear hubs.  
> Great stuff.
>
> Bob Kramer
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Sep 27, 2013, at 7:50 PM, Mark J Bradakis <mark at bradakis.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>> christopher bock wrote:
>>> Is the spit/gt6 diff kind of the same thing?  Where you need to  
>>> squeeze the case to get the diff out?
>>>
>>> I haven't gotten to disassemble the diff in my spit but couldn't  
>>> you grind a little of the case away to make removal easier?
>>
>> Yes, you could set it up so the carrier and its bearings are easy  
>> to drop in and easy to pull out.
>> Which would be nice, because you would be doing it a LOT.  With no  
>> preload and a few thousandths
>> of slop, the bearings will be destroying themselves on a regular  
>> basis.  And as the carrier shifts
>> back and forth messing up the mesh between the pinion and crown  
>> gear, you'd hear odd noises,
>> really odd noises when it would be time to replace those, too.
>>
>> mjb.
>>
>>
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