Thanks all for info so far. In the end I decided that baby wasn't going to
come unstuck any time soon (given no sign of it under pressure from soaking
in penetrating oil, and being leaned on with long pipe-wrenches), so I cut
bits of it off with a hacksaw until finally the remnants could be tapped
off. It fought hard right up to the end.
At any rate that's out of the way now but there's a new question I'd like to
raise please. I've got the old rubber bushes out and new plastic ones in
(Brian was right - it IS a bear to move that axle far enough out of the
trunnion eye!). However the new bushes have a wide conical outer face
instead of the narrow flat face on the old rubber ones, and so each new bush
protrudes further out of the face of the eye when it's in place (i.e. each
bush-piece occupies more length on the diff-pin than the rubber one did).
Hence the inner bush causes a bigger gap between the trunnion eye and the
diff. This forces the whole rear axle out some way to the right of centre
when the trunnion's tightened up in place on the diff. This seems bad to me.
(The car is going to crab sideways when on the road.)
Anyone else struck this with new poly trunnion-to-diff bushings please?
Any suggestions? Maybe trim off the surplus outer conical face of the inner
bushing?
Thanks all,
Graham H (1750 GTV)
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