[ROVERNET - UK] P6 Rear Axle
Vern Klukas
vern at inkspotco.com
Mon May 29 22:39:47 BST 2006
If the hubs had too much preload, I would expect them to overheat and
fail long before the diff.
Could you provide more details.4cyl or V8? Exactly what was the
failure? Did the gears strip? I presume you are talking about the
small gears inside the diff carrier, not the crown and pinion gear.
Did the stub axles fail?
Yours
Vern
>There is a P6 out here that is having problems with the
>differential. The owner, not having a computer asked me to ask all
>of you for some help. The car had been in storage for some time.
>He got the car running and everything at the rear seemed normal for
>about 600 or so miles. Then the rear hubs were determined to need
>rebuilding. This was done with new bearings, seals and crush
>spacers. Just after this service was performed the differential
>problem started. After just a few days of driving the differential
>side and pinion gears failed. The complete rear axle assembly was
>replaced with a used unit and the same thing happened again. My
>first thought is that the rear hubs pre-load was incorrectly set.
>An other ideas? Thank you for the help. jb
>
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