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Old 15-12-2010, 05:32 PM
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How hard is it to strip down an escos front diff and 2wd 7.5" rear diff? any special tools needed?

I want to strip them down to blast casings and tap a few threads etc before rebuilds,

A specialist will be building them back up but would be easier if I can strip them down and do the blasting and tapping before he gets them to rebuild.

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just the cases from the diff is piss easy but the actual diff i aint looked into that yet im afraid
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Cheers

Anyone else done this or shed any light ?

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if all you are doing is swoping the bearings out you will need a very long socket to do the rear diff nut all so just so you no theres 2 sizes of seal,s for the flange that prop bolts to i will try to see wot size socket i used to do my diff . you can see from my photo how fare down the fread is for the second nut



and in this photo this is were there are to sizes

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Someone else will order and fit new seals and barings mate so I don't need to worry about that,

Just want a guide to stripping the diff bare so I can blast and tap the casings

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Any one else add to this?

Coley - you got a picture of the socket you used? is that the thread next to the number 5 painted on the pinion shaft?
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