<VV> another diff interchange question

[Tony Underwood]

At 08:20 PM 11/19/2011, Mike McCrae wrote:
>I think the confusion is that you keep saying the pinion is the 
>same...it's the pinion gear that's the same and not the shaft. The 
>gear will have to be removed and repressed on the PG trans. shaft.




Yes indeed.


Ladies and gentlemen:

The GEAR is the same, manual OR automatic.  The shaft it is pressed 
onto is NOT.  And YES the gear can be pressed off and then pressed 
onto another shaft, no big deal.   Just make sure the collar in the 
press is seated correctly or you can chip the edges of the teeth on 
the pinion.   It MUST be flush with the back face of the pinion gear.

I watched a guy at a shop, who thought he knew everything, set the 
press incorrectly and chipped the pinion gear... this after insisting 
that the gear and shaft were one piece and wouldn't believe otherwise 
until I showed him the gear I wanted to have pressed back onto the 
shaft (changing gear ratios in a 4-speed).



I now have access to a high capacity press and don't have to go to 
somebody else to get things like that done.



tony..