[ROVERNET - UK] Rearend woes - Rear end noise in 3500 S

[Hank and Sally Manwell]

I'm reminded that back in the early 70s when one of my father's 2000TCs 
wasn't very old, he drove into his yard at home one fine day and went to 
back out an hour or so later and found the rear end seized.  We opened it up 
and found one of the cluster gears had broken into two or more pieces.

He ordered up an entire new set of gears, ring, pinion, clusters, and all, 
which Rover North America was glad to sell him.  While we'd been able to 
dismantle the thing, we didn't trust ourselves to get the assembly set up 
again just right, so called Rovers again to see what nearby dealer they 
would suggest for reassembly.

They said there was no dealer they could think of in the entire USA who 
would be qualified to do that.  So we went out and bought a whole parts car 
and exchanged units.  No other similar trouble in his 20 years or so of 
driving those cars.

We still have all those new gears; hope they haven't deteriorated from 
sitting around.

Hank


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ruotolo Gianluca (MERCATO STAFF)" <gianluca.ruotolo at enel.it>
To: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
Cc: <depace at kappa.it>; "Lombardo Marcello (Ammin. Personale)" 
<marcello.lombardo at enel.it>; "Marco Morana" <marco_morana at hotmail.com>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 4:40 AM
Subject: R: [ROVERNET - UK] Rearend woes - Rear end noise in 3500 S


I do know that cars are different, but...
Only to know, could something similar happen to 2000 TCs ?

Best regards, Gianluca.




-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: rovernet-bounces at lyris.ccdata.com
[mailto:rovernet-bounces at lyris.ccdata.com] Per conto di Shirley & Barry
Lafbery
Inviato: sabato 20 ottobre 2007 23.58
A: rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com
Oggetto: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] Rearend woes - Rear end noise in 3500 S


If you have rear end noise in a 3500s, stop driving the car and see to
it
ASAP. What happens in the diff. is this, the crown wheel bolts come
loose or
break if they come loose and undo more than a 1/4 turn the head hits the

diff. casing and breaks it I have seen this twice, once in my car and
once
in a friends. If you can catch it before the damage is done new bolts
fitted
with lock-tite will fix it. They are special bolts, bolts from a 2000
diff
will fit.

Barry
P2
P3
P5




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