Thanks to a little help from my friends, the new VC is in. Everything is assembled. All I have to do is aliign the front diff. Is there an accepted method for doing this? I could not find the procedure in Bentley. I did not remove the front diff. to instal the VC. I instead followed the sage advice of tim Smith, which reads as follows: "Hi Steve, Dead easy to install. Remove 4 13mm nuts/bolts from front end of driveshaft, they are crimped/hard to remove. Use Loctite later, and keep them together, they are high strength bolts! The front diff mounts give enough to let the shaft drop. After that remove the 8-10 13mm bolts from that first section and just pull it off backwards. Oh... drain the oil first. No gasket, use case sealant when reassembling. VC simply slides off the toothed shaft inside diff. It's heavy! bye, Tim" It's a little tight getting the nose casing, or whatever it's called, pulled all the way off of of the diff. You have to move the gear shifter so that the shifter shaft is optimally position to give room, and you have to have the diff mounts loose so it can slide forward. And you need to lift up on the diff. so the casing can clear part of the sub-frame. It all goes back together much easier. How do you align it? Don't forget to mark the drive shaft before you remove it, at both front and rear, so everything is aligned exactly the way it was on reassembly. Many thanks for makng the whole experience very enjoyable to Warren, Peter, Otmar, Mark, Jeff, Ben and .... my memory fails me, but she drove a long way in a nice blue Wolfsberg. Peter installed his digitool and fixed some other things, and of course we ran out of time. Otmar's stretch drew a small crowd of onlookers at one point, and of course he gave them a tour. ) Warren and Otmar got some photos we'll post somewhere. steve |
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