Re: [Q] Drive flange seals

["Hjones" <hjones1@airmail.net>]

I have a page on my site that has pictures of "the tool" and a short
description of a Stage -2 install....

http://www.weatherford.isd.tenet.edu/weim/Rocco/Stage2.htm

-----Original Message-----
From: Shawn C Meze <skerocdriver@juno.com>
To: Ewan.Hopkins@computeraid.co.uk <Ewan.Hopkins@computeraid.co.uk>
Cc: scirocco-L@scirocco.org <scirocco-L@scirocco.org>
Date: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Q] Drive flange seals


>
>On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 14:03:52 +0100 Ewan Hopkins
><Ewan.Hopkins@computeraid.co.uk> writes:
>>I've just done this job.. you don't need the special tool to compress
>the
>>flange if you have a g-clamp large enough to bridge round the diff case.
>
>
>
>Wouldn't that be a special tool you used there? Hmmm...
>
>
>>Getting the flange back on is the hardest bit - the secret is, when
>>compressing it with the clamp,  to do it a little at a time and tap the
>>opposite side of the flange from the clamp, to ease it along the shaft,
>>otherwise it will stick on the splines.
>
>
>Well, if you had the right tool, its a simple job and you don't risk the
>chance of damaging the newly installed seals.
>
>
>>The job is probably a lot easier with the proper tool but I don't know
>if
>>they are expensive.  It would be easy enough to make-up something that
>>would do the job.
>
>
>The tool can be made actually. You just need a "U" shapped bracket with a
>hole drilled in the center. Using a length of metric rod and a nut and
>that's the tool. When you buy a diff kit from Velocity, they include the
>tool. Simple little thing and after you use it enough times it does bend.
>Nothing a big vice and a hammer cant fix.
>
>|_i_|    <--- "U" bracket
>   |       <--- threaded rod goes thru the bracket.
>
>Thread the rod into the diff. Then tighten down the nut and the tool
>presses in on the flange. This allows you to remove the clip. remove the
>nut and the flange will fall off the tranny. reinstallation is the same
>as reverse only remember to install the clip over the rod so when you get
>everything pressed back into place you can install the clip.
>
>Anyhoo. Use what you got but if you can get the tool it will make a much
>friendlier job.
>HTH!!
>
>
>              Shawn Meze
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