Diff rebuild, well sortof.. :D

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Hey Guys,

Okay sorry this is not going to be a complete writeup... yet...

This weekend me and Ivan head out to my DeLorean buddy Ed from DMC Service so we could use his workshop to rebuild and adjust a couple of stock differentials. Last time I visited Ed he had plenty of space and nice workbenches and all the tools we needed but when we came in however we were greeted by 5! DeLoreans spread around the work floor in various states of restauration, including one that was being completely rebuild no expenses spared.

Luckely however some room was quickly created for us to work on one of the work benches and having a rich environment of tools and more important, the handy expertise of Ed around, we went to work...

Well almost, we still had to buy some GL5 LS oil, very easily obtainable here in Hoofddorp (but I had forgotten to buy it), but seemingly nobody around Grootebroek has ever heard of the stuff

The purpose of the day was to learn since neither me nor Ivan had ever done this before. We had hoped to build 2 units and install at least one. One unit would be build using a new RNP combined with an already rebuild diff, and another with a used RNP and a diff we would rebuild ourselves. Eventually we only ended up building the second setup but ran out of time to actually test it out so we still have no idea if we screwed it up or not

Ivan had brought a whopping 4 LSDs in various states of deterioration and 3 diff housings one of which was ruined so we desided to do some testing on it. We had assumed we need a press to get the pinion out but the thing had alot of play, needless to say the minuted we unscrewed the top nut, the whole thing came flying out.

I think the attached picture says enough..