<VV> Re: DIFFERENTIAL QUESTION

[EUGENE1938@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/21/04 3:21:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time, N2VZD@aol.com 
writes:
i am doing a 63 powerslide differential with the complaint that the axle 
yokes have too much movement. i figured side gears...and spiders.  well i 
expected
not as much play putting new gears in carrier and trying the shaft by 
hand...it seems about the same.  does it go away when i put all the new parts 
in? 

Tim,
The side movement is caused by too much wear in the carrier where the axle 
goes
through into the side gears.  The fix is to bore the carrier out and install 
a bushing
then have the bushing honed out to fit the axle shaft.  Not an inexpensive 
proposition.
A lot of movement at the stub axle results in very little movement at the 
wheel where
it's important so for a show car, not to be driven very much you would 
probably be
OK to use them as is.

Ed Corson (CORSA member)
IECC - Riverside, CA