Thread: LT230 Rebuild

Originally Posted by Vern

Yep, that's how I have always done it.
When I have fit them, I heat the plate up, and put the cone in the freezer, goes in easier.

That’s how I did the front ball joints! They slipped in super easily (but you did have to work fast & there was no 2nd chance!)

Today I used the 12 ton press to remove and install the bearings in the front and rear housings plus the CDL cluster. The main case went to the engineer to get resleeved.

Incidentally, I had no issues installing the gears. The black paint wasn’t an issue at all, the gears slipped on easily.

Another question: should I replace this or clean the rust off it and reuse? The rust is only surface and there are no horrible marks, dings or putting. It seems reasonably straight also (by eye).

Re use it, as long as the surface the seal runs on is good

Here's the drawing for the lifting bracket. I pulled the swivel plate out of my trolley jack and welded a suitable piece of tube to the bracket to make it fit where the swivel plate had been.
With the Defender driven up onto bits of 100 x 150 treated fence post (on the flat) the transfer came out under the chassis rails on the lowered trolley jack. Easy peasy. good luck you're doing a great job.

Don.

Originally Posted by Don 130

Here's the drawing for the lifting bracket. I pulled the swivel plate out of my trolley jack and welded a suitable piece of tube to the bracket to make it fit where the swivel plate had been.
With the Defender driven up onto bits of 100 x 150 treated fence post (on the flat) the transfer came out under the chassis rails on the lowered trolley jack. Easy peasy. good luck you're doing a great job.

Don.

Thanks Don. That’s great.

Note to self: ensure that the disposable crush tube that goes inside the intermediate gear doesn’t get thrown out until you are sure your rebuild kit contains a new one! For some retarded reason the Ashcrofts master rebuild kit has, from what I can tell, everything except that tube! I’ve managed to source a new crush tube plus a replacement for the cracked bearing plate locally. I took the bearings and intermediate gears to the engineer today to ask if he could make a solid tube. He said yes but need to know the dimensions of the original tube that had need thrown out...bummer...going to use a crush version instead of a solid tube.

Hopefully the case will be finished at the engineer tomorrow or next day.

Because I’m fitting a new CD, do I need to do steps 36-44?