Thread: Lt230se transfer box differential thrust washer inspection.

Slide the diff assembly out with the High/Low shaft attached.
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Undo the diff bolts after marking the housing for reassembly purposes.
Split and remove the retaining ring.
Note the position of the cross shaft and planet gears and remove.
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Mine after inspection had 2 badly worn washers and 2 missing from the planet gears.
Note the dammage to the housing.
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I also removed the 2 sun gears to inspect the thrust washers.
Don't mix them up as they are selectable shims!

Reassembly will be the reverse of the above with locktite used as needed.
Thanks to those who posted elsewhere for the heads up on this inspection.
While some dammage has been done it could be worse.

Sorry for the picture size, hope you get the idea.

good work!!

notice also in the last set of pics there are bits of thrust washer all the way up to the input bearing...

not unusual i did one last week where there were no thrust washers left at all.


jc

Originally Posted by justinc

good work!!

notice also in the last set of pics there are bits of thrust washer all the way up to the input bearing...

not unusual i did one last week where there were no thrust washers left at all.


jc

Thanks JC.
It was one of your posts about this that made me look
Clean up tommorow and I'll go from there.

Thanks again for today mate - I think we all learned a lot. Having now pulled mine down I have the spider gear shims to replace on mine, but at least they were all there, although paper thin. The sun gear shims and the intermediate shaft shims are all in good nick, so only that and the intermediate shaft 'O' rings on mine.

Oh, and one other difference is that mine has gaskets on all surfaces, not just silastic, so I'll need a few of those as well.

Cheers - Gav

This I believe is something I need to do to mine. So you find that you need shims. Where do get them from?
Cheers Hall

I am going have to have a good read of this thread.
Thanks.

Originally Posted by Hall

This I believe is something I need to do to mine. So you find that you need shims. Where do get them from?
Cheers Hall

Apparently this is the place to get all this sort of stuff - British Car Components - spares and parts for British cars, Melbourne Victoria, Australia

I will be dropping in there this week - I think Alien will be too, I think the shims are only a couple of bucks each.

Just had another thought after cleaning some parts on the TC today. As my box is put together with gaskets, and not just a bead of silastic, is there anything I need to be aware of as far as the centre diff bearing pre load goes? The gasket in effect will alter the pre load I would think - for any expert out there that has done this - am I on the right track here? Is it just a mattter of using a new gasket and torquing everything up to the correct spec, or do I have to go through all the trouble of measuring everything once assembled to check to see if I have this right?

Also, I have found that the input shaft is quite tight to turn - what should I be looking for here? Again, the end plate at the non drive end of the input shaft uses gaskets - is this likely to upset the preload? - the spec for this is fairly tight - 0.000 to 0.003 inches, so not much wiggle room so to speak. Just wanted to check before I pull this apart.

Hope that makes sense - Gav