Diff rebuild, well sortof.. :D

[Mux213]

The real challenge was putting the diff back into the housing.

I'm not going to talk much about that now. First of all, we don't know yet if we did this correctly, second of all, this story wouldn't be complete without the information about pinion installation but we decided to reuse an already installed pinion that looked like it was in very good shape.

Installing the LSD means putting it into place, putting the end caps on, then bolting the brackets on that keep it in place (this really is alot of fiddling to get right) and then adjusting the end caps until the LSD sits in the right position.

If we've done it correctly adjusting means clamping the flange to which the driveshaft would be fitted so the pinion can't rotate, then measuring the play on the ring gear as the diff moves. If the ring gear sits further away from the pinion this play will increase, if it comes closer it decreases. You need to get this play to about 0.2mm.

After this you need to tighten the LSD in place but only so tight as to get it to clamp. Hard to explain right now, I'm not 100% sure we got this bit right yet. Its only now after a day of thinking about what we've done I'm starting to understand what we should have done here but I think the end result will be correct, I'm only afraid we might have made it to tight which would create stress on the bearings, but I have no idea how bad.

Anyways, once the LSD is installed we'll find out if it runs correctly or not, if not we'll remove it and adjust it again until we get a hang of it

We're going to build one more diff from scratch at least and we'll document that one from the start hopefully write a how to about it...