On 18 Oct 2009 at 12:04, Joe Curry wrote: > You might have to resort to cutting through the bolt using a > saws-all at the edges of both the ears.
Joe is right. First time I removed my Spitfire diff about 20 years ago I had the same problem. I cut the bolt out with a hacksaw blade held by a piece of cloth. It, umm, wasn't the pleasantest or fastest job I've ever done on the car. There are ways to hammer the bolt. You can thread a long rod of suitable dimensions through the suspension components such that one end is resting against the pointed end, then whack the end of the rod away from the car with a BFH. But it won't help much. The bushings in the ears of the diff are metal cylinders on the inside and outside of rubber donuts. The impact of the whacking is absorbed by the rubber so you can't transmit any jerk component to the frozen surfaces. Once you get the diff out it is a simple matter to tear the inner part out of the bushing, then cut out the rest from inside the hole. -- Jim Muller [email protected] '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+ _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html You are subscribed as [email protected] [email protected] http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/spitfires http://www.team.net/archive
