Change Differential

[Dr Phat]

Just doing some research before I go about doing something the wrong way.

In reference to my other thread, my housing was damaged during a gear swap so I cant use the housing, however can I still install the carrier and housing to finish rebuilding my axle? Its completely torn down right now and I want to get it all buttoned up back together and just change the diff out later when I secure a new housing.

I was wondering if I could just do the "camo method" to leave the knuckles relatively intact and just pull the shafts to get the diff out? Sounds good?

[OOPS]

Yep!!!!

How did you mess up a housing doing a gear swap?

[Dr Phat]

It either happened when the housing slipped in press or when the dog knocked it over when I had it balanced on the pinion end on the garage floor. Somehow a small chunk broke off where the adjuster caps mate with the housing and took a few threads with it. Very freak thing. I thought about just using a Dremel to just file the bad threads down but seems a little sketchy to me.