Haven't been doing enough to post on Jennifer's Jag but here's some pictures to bring you up to date.
A couple of things have come up that I didn't anticipate, in life as well as on the car, I was going to replace the seals on the leaky differential and as I disassembled it I noticed that the output shaft bearings (in particular, the outer most of the two bearings) were blued and on close examination scored with scoring on the bearing race possibly from the differential oil getting to low? At any rate these have to be replaced and replacements are on order.
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| Lifting the IRS cage up, can't recall why but it made sense at the time |
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| Pumpkin (differential) separated from the IRS carrier |
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| Pumpkin with brake calipers attached, pretty grimy! |
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| Separating the pieces |
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| Making a tool to get the nut off the output flange, better than trying to use a punch to loosen the nut. |
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| Surprisingly it worked, I will never make it as a tool fabricator |
That's it for now, don't know when I'll post again but hope to get this car back on it's wheels in time for some late springtime fun for Jennifer. Thank you for your patience Jennifer.
Cheers,
Lynn
If the tool works then you did a fine job making it. It doesn't have to be pretty.
ReplyDeleteI bet the pumpkin and brake calipers clean up to look almost new.
Hi Drew,
DeleteThanks for your kind thoughts, pretty it isn't. Tomorrow I'll play with the other output shaft and that will be the test. Since that one hasn't been tampered with I'll check the bearing end float to see if it falls in line with what we expect.
Cheers,
Lynn