Up bright and early, Dog walked and the boxes arrived right after lunch Dandy
Got it all unpacked and checked over and got started.
Gave the casings a whiff of silver to try to slow the oxidisation process
While that was drying I started to assemble the Diff/ mainshaft sub assembly and other bits
Then start assembling
First track in and set 1mm below surface.
Input bearing assembly was next I worked out the shimming and subtracted the gaskets and tried it, way too tight. Then I remembered, there was only one gasket, the PTO end was just Blue Hylomar, so someone had re shimmed it when the gear was changed, Adjusted 15 thou. and tried again, felt lovely, no endfloat and just a hint of Drag when turning. Left it there for now.
Then the rear housing gets assembled and fitted, followed by the Mainshaft/ Diff assembly.
I fitted the re-calculated shims and tried it, no endfloat and no resistance at all, Added a thou and a half and tried it, still no resistance. 0.0015 shim out and 0.003 in. Felt great. Left it there
Proper juggling job assembling the front housing and fitting it all up, took my time and had a think about what does what/goes where and fitted it.
After that I fitted the Difflock and high/low selectors and checked the operation, Difflock is great, High/low is pretty stiff, will back off the detent and see, could be the shaft is a bit dry, didn't want it dripping oil over where the sealer was going, by the state of the bench it was time to call it a Day and wait on Junior arriving to give me a hand to turn it over, so round 2 can commence tomorrow.
So far, so good. It can't Last......