Yes. Must be a tad more brittle being shorter.
never seen one on top of the axle cases, in diff housing yes for filling and levelYes. Must be a tad more brittle being shorter.
What’s the fillet plug for on top of the axle casing? As I understood it, the bottom one is obviously for draining, the middle one is for fill level but I found another up on top
Yes. It’s on top of the pointy bit that bolts to the haxle. You’d have a hard time getting to it to fill the cogymabob.
Naa, the breather was fine. It must be a very late axle coz it’s got one of them there banjo jobbies. The front has a little bell.
front or back
The back one. I wuz hardly going to take off the front one to extract a rear halfshaft.
diff filler used to be through the diff housing drain through bottom of axle case, late axle cases had a level /filler plug fitted in the axle pan and so diff housing no longer had a filler plug,youve a late axle case early diffThe back one. I wuz hardly going to take off the front one to extract a rear halfshaft.
just seems daft to have a filler plug on top of the diff cover that you can’t get to. I’ve always topped up through the oil level plug.
oh ang on. It’s a series. Daft is mandatory.
I wondered why I had to beat it back on with a sledge hammer
Glad you got up and running again quickly.The next job will probably be the clutch
I’m really not looking forward to this one. Been putting it off for far too long and it could really do with a fresh plate.
Just seems such a huge job just to change the bleedin thing.
Nowt wrong with that!Not sure if I could reuse this now it’s settled a bit. At least half looks good.
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the finer spline makes a stronger shaft, the diff end in the 1990s went 24 spline too
