Thread: LT230 domed washers gone

I ended up setting the preload using a digital weight scale/force meter onto the input shaft and using a weight that pulled the meter with the same force every time...

Is it true that you can undo the front and rear differential flange nuts to do a pinion seal on these rovers without affecting bearing preload? I am used to my old toyota diffs that had a crush spacer under the flange nut...
I am reading the workshop manual atm but cant quite understand what sets the bearing preload if the flange nut doesn't..?

Originally Posted by rick130

From memory it's the shim stack behind the bearing cups that sets preload.
Been four/five years since I did one.
And I set it up using a spring balance and string too.
Old school but it works.

Alrighty then. So it appears as long as i do the nut back up to 130NM on the front diff flange, whatever shims are already installed in there will be set the bearing back to the same preload...
Yay, i can go and replace my leaking pinion seal...