<VV> Ring and Pinion Wear

[JVHRoberts at aol.com]

It's hard to tell from the pic, but it looks like most of the scuffing is  on 
the coast side of the teeth. Does the drive side look as bad?
 
If it was my own car, running a stock engine, I'd live with it. Only  because 
fitting a different R&P means setting up the gears all over again.  Probably 
the best way out, if you don't want to reuse it, is to find a complete  known 
good final drive, case and all, and put in new seals before reinstalling. 
 
In a message dated 2/4/2006 11:02:58 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
geoffj at unm.edu writes:

I have a  differential apart from a friends powerglide.  It lost one of the  
seals that keeps PG fluid out of the differential from age.  It was  caught 
before it went to 
far, but it started to wear a touch on the  R$P.  Just visible, I can 
barely barely feel a bit of roughness on  the contact pattern.  Question 
is, is it still useable, or do I need  to find a new R$P.
HIGH RESOLUTION Pictures are posted  here:
http://www.unm.edu/~geoffj/Pinion/

Thanks
Geoff  Johnson