Originally Posted by bilibib
Originally Posted by Arwyn Williams

I marked the nut and the pinion shaft with aligning marks using a straight edge and TCT scriber and it took 146 ft lb to move the marks out of alignment.

Arwyn

Does that mean I do not need to use a torque wrench, just mark the pinion shaft and nut positionally, count turns made in removing the nut and replace to the same values ?


Thats how I did it. There was a lot of correspondence at the time on the MGCC grapevine after a few V8s had the roll pin collapse, and destroy the diff, so it was headline news for a while.

DaveW
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