Hello everyone

I have been busy all the morning because I bring my old diff here today to the workshop and I am a lucky bastard (what it seems). We took the center out of the old diff (pretty easy to do and it can be done without taking all the diff out of the car) and we found out that it was almost perfect (no gap at all) and the only thing that happened was the following:

Some crack appeared at the back of the diff and it started to leak. I took the car to my panel-beater and told him to weld the crack. He weld it but the welded zone begin to strike the crown gear bolts when the diff rotated, so the tac-tac sound that I ear wasn't a broken teeth but the bolts touching the diff case. However in the meantime 3 bolts broke and one of them strike the pinion gear (we remachine the pinion gear and everything went great). We have tested the diff center at 2000 RPM (60 Kph) out of the car and everything looks great with no strange noises. In the weekend I am going to assemble the diff center into the car.

Looks that everything is OK now.

Anyone knows the torques for the crown gear bolts and for the ball-bearing supports? I need it for tomorrow, since we are going to give the final touch to the diff center tomorrow. I need them until tomorrow!

Thanks

Ric