I normally use arount ten hours as well. ciao André
> I build my own rears simply for the sake that I don't trust anyone else to do > it. It really is not that hard, but very time consuming. Changing a carrier > is easy, when you get into changing gears, well that's another story. If any > and I mean any of the readings are off, you will get noisy gears and possible > bearing or gear failure. If you just want to simply pull the axles out and > replace the seals and axle bearings, that's no biggie. If the oil looks good, > IE not black or filled with metal filings, I would just put some fresh 90W in > there and button it back up. Don't go to replace the pinion seal unless you > have a torque wrench that measures in inch/pounds. The preload needs to be > correct or pinion bearing failure will occur. The general reading is around > .020"-.025". > I recently redid the 12 bolt in my 70 and it took me a full 10 hours to do it > start to finish and that did not include the R & R from the car. > > Tom >
