<VV> diff

[N. Joseph Potts]

Tom -
Your situation will be easier and harder. If you choose to replace your
snout (doing the snout?) you will NOT have the benefit of a critical part of
Smitty's recommendation: you will not be able to remove only one adjuster
sleeve at a time. This means you WILL have to either count ALL the turns, or
you will have to adjust the diff "from scratch."  I've tried to count turns
and always ended up adjusting from scratch, but I've never had the
opportunity of doing them one at a time.
     Does your snout leak? Have you tried just replacing the input-shaft
seal? If you can get it to stop leaking without taking your whole diff apart
and your diff otherwise works well, I'd suggest you do it that way, and
avail yourself of Smitty's method - that ONLY IF you have got leakage from
the bottoms of the adjusting sleeves.
     Adjusting a diff from scratch is difficult, time-consuming, and usually
requires special tools, which you can make yourself. It's easy to get wrong,
with deleterious effects on your diff over time. If you DO take your diff
apart (snout), I'd strongly recommend you replace those original spider
gears.

Joe Potts
Miami, Florida USA
1966 Corsa coupe 140hp 4-speed with A/C

-----Original Message-----
From: virtualvairs-admin@corvair.org
[mailto:virtualvairs-admin@corvair.org]On Behalf Of Tom Wright
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 2:00 PM
To: virtualvairs@corvair.org
Subject: <VV> diff

Thanks, Smitty.

That was a timely post on the differential adjustment for re sealing the
adjuster sleeves. I have to do mine and was concerned about counting the
spins
to get it apart. I am considering doing the snout at the same time, just to
make sure. My diff is out, so it's a little easier for me, may as well do it
all.

C U

Tom Wright
St.Catharines
www.vaxxine.com/tomspage
66 Corsa 140
Corsa Ontario