Of this here front Sailsbury axle on Morph. Interestingly LRS local non franchised were less than keen to take it on. Legs have quoted between £500 and £750 depending on if in needed a Pinion and Crown wheel, only problem being the expence and getting him there.
So today having finished contoring myself to put the new Air con pipe on the Disco (LPG vaporisors in the way) , I finally plucked up the courage to take a look at Morph.
The Diff pan came off simple enough, I was expecteding very stubborn bolts here (I'll no doubt have to pay somewhere along the line!). Then I jacked up the wheel and rotated the Diff and the noise still seemed to be coming from the Pinion area with a definate rumble felt in the casing as the wheel was rotated. All the teeth appear in good condition as good as you can check visibly anyway.
I had a couple of goes at undoing the pinion flange nut.... here we go I thought, nothing.... if anything all I was doing was causing Morph to rock too and fro so I fabruicated myself a tool to hold the flange still and bolted it to the flange the other end wedged against the ground, after a little click the nut turned nicely... clearly not torqued up because this is how you set the preload of the pinion bearings on reassembly. So quite pleased with that progress I packed up for the day to fetch the mini-me's from school .
Now that may not seem like alot of work but to behonest It's been haunting me since I first figured out the Diff / bearings were suspect. Now realisitically I recon on a part day per side of the axle to remove the swivel seal, swivel pins, Track rod arms and then I'm ready to pull the old diff out.
First I need to get a dial guage to check the backlash in the diff before pulling it out too (NOTE TO SELF!).
I'll let you all know how I progress.
Lee D