If the circlip was present, it might have left a circlip-shaped pattern on the side of the bearing. Can you see any evidence of that? If there are no such patterns, and the groove on the shaft does not appear to have had a circlip in it, I bet that it was never installed in teh first place.
It looks like the splines on the end of the shaft did not suffer, which is good. You might be able to search for the circlip (fragments, presumably) through the oil filler hole with a small, strong magnet on the end of a piece of coat-hanger wire. It would certainly be worth an hour or two of your time, if you can avoid having to remove and open up the diff. Doug Braun /// [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list /// Send admin requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive /// Send list postings to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// Edit your replies! If they include this trailer, they will NOT be sent.
