Day 68- 28 Chev Ute Restoration (18th November 2015)

After a struggle over the last few days, pleased to say the tailshaft and diff are now locked into the torque tube as a complete unit.

Diffs are one of the jobs I am not fond of as they are so time consuming.

This proved to be no different, backlash has to be spot on as does the position of the pinion.

Eventually, after stripping out the tailshaft for the 6th time, I got the contact area on the crown wheel within limits, then set the backlash, again within limits.

How good I have set up the diff will reveal itself  during the first few 100 k's.

It will either purr (as much as a Chev 4 diff can that is) or howl its head off.