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Originally Posted by MBEngineering
HI jluetjen
when you assembled the shafts and gear into the bearing plate, both shafts FULLY turned? and when in gear they still FULLY turned.
what size shim gaskets did you fit to set the pinion depth when you fitted the gear set back in the diff/main case,? and did the input-shaft still turn when in gear with the box now fully assembled, there is a posibility that the pinion is to far in mesh with the crown wheel, just a thought
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I think that you may have called it Mike. I took the transaxle apart while monitoring the effort required to turn the mainshaft.
- Complete Transaxle: Mainshaft is really stiff
- Remove the end cover and the intermediate reverse gears -- mainshaft is still bound up.
- Pulled the intermediate plate -- mainshaft freed up
- Reinstalled the intermediate plate assembly and removed diff cover -- somewhat less bound
- Removed the diff, and the mainshaft freed up.
- Reinstalled the diff and the diff cover, and the mainshaft got stiff again. That looks pretty conclusive.
I had not checked the diff clearance when I rebuilt the transaxle this year. I had rebuilt it last year with gears that I had collected along the way, and discovered that gears 3, 4 and 5 were really noisy. In 2nd gear (integral with the mainshaft), the car was fine. So I drove it down to the village in 2nd gear to get the car's annual inspection sticker, and drove the car home again -- in 2nd gear.
So much for buying used gears! I pitched the lot of them and bought some new gears, and rebuilt the two gear shafts again this year. I didn't recheck the diff again since it hadn't been a problem. But since I
did reset the pinion-shaft shim stack, I should never have assumed.
Oh well. Lesson learned and shared here. Kevin, I may give you a call tomorrow.
More updates to come!