Thread: Diff set up

Originally Posted by rovercare

I think Lucus was jokeing.............................atleast I hope so

On the money il'd say


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I am looking at the detroit & Truetrac conversions of the standard RR open centers .. but feel that this is best left to the "Diff Man" due to diff lash etc + the limited experiance on this subject ... I can rip apart a diff & put it back together / no problems .. but lack the finer detail "should have done this knowledge"

Mike

Originally Posted by Lucus

I was being Facetious (spelling?) I quite familiar with marking fasteners. Although if you could develop a pen that torques a bolt when you mark it............. $$$$$$$$

You can, you can.

The blokes here have been leading you astray with their instructions.

To torque correctly with a torque marking pen you have to write the actual number in ft/lbs on the bolt with the torque marking pen.

That is if you have a pen calibrated in ft/lbs. Best to check first that you have an imperial pen.

It's a bugger that you can't get metric/imperial torque marking pens, but at the cost, it's cheap enough to get one of each.

Cheers
Simon

My person favorite is when take the time to write "bolts not torqued", in the time they take to do that they could just torque the bolt.

Bolts should be in and torqued or not it at all....

Originally Posted by Lucus

My person favorite is when take the time to write "bolts not torqued", in the time they take to do that they could just torque the bolt.

Bolts should be in and torqued or not it at all....

Another way is to sing to your bolts /// this avoids having to have a converstion (torquing)

BA DOOM BOOM CHING!! Mike's here all week.............try the steak.

Oh ... and on the entertainment value of diffs
Did you know that you can play cards with these bolts
My favorite game is .... Snap

Originally Posted by mike 90 RR

Oh ... and on the entertainment value of diffs
Did you know that you can play cards with these bolts
My favorite card game is .... Snap

Why are rover diffs like rice bubbles??? They like to go snap, crackle, pop!

(only difference is you give them juice instead of milk).

Originally Posted by Lucus

My person favorite is when take the time to write "bolts not torqued", in the time they take to do that they could just torque the bolt.

Bolts should be in and torqued or not it at all....

I used to have to drum that into anyone that worked with me on race cars.
Only put the bolt in if you are going to do it up !

Of course we always had flags on things like 'No Oil', and I used to install an R clip and flag through the fire bomb button so no numpty could discharge it accidentally (IOW, so I wouldn't discharge it accidentally )