A diff for the Terminator!
I have proven to myself that I can go a whole week without thinking about the work I have to do on ROJ. This feat however, requires me travelling to Austria and repeatedly sliding down snowy slopes on Salomon skis. Unfortunately the weather was foul - rained nearly every day, but as I was skiing with a contingent of the British Army we didn’t stop for anything!
It didn’t take me long on return to start planning the next set of jobs on ROJ - rebuilding differential and rear axle - which I did this last weekend.
Firstly fixing the three mounting brackets to the chassis - note that the two rear ones are different shapes - this is to accomodate the Watts linkage on the Dedion tube.
and attached;
front bracket (I needed to tap out the captive nuts, which was very fiddly):
The hypoid unit and diff carrier in pieces:
Put together and painted with Hammerite - looks rather spooky:
Like this:
I must remember to fill it with differential oil before fitting it to the car!
More blogs and websites
Every now and then I type Aston Martin into Google images to see what comes up. This week I found a great website called “The Splendid Whizzer Association”
And being a pedantic ex-journalist I also like websites with a quirky look at the English language as in Wordmall.
Next steps
Once we’ve got a rolling chassis - engine rebuild…
March 15th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
I assume your differential is the limited slip type as well, which requires a special oil or at least additives in the standard fare.
You probably know that, but I didn’t (and the diff made some very nasty noises when I was turning) and drove a long time before I could ask the rebuilder….