Bob:
I've run into this too and figured it was just a tolerance issue.
Either that or North American molecules are a different size.
Kelvin Dodd
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Howard [mailto:mgbob@juno.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 12:07 PM
> To: Dodd, Kelvin
> Cc: mgb-v8@autox.team.net; mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Rear axle
>
> Kelvin,
> During the winter when some of us in our club were taking apart
> Salisbury rear axles to see what was inside, we were able to remove
the
> gearsets from the two we tried w/o using the spreader tool, which we
> didn't have anyway.
> Were there manufacturing tolerances great enough that sometimes the
> tool was not required?
> Do you suppose it could be that some DPO simply filed off .010 from
> the case for clearance?
> Bob
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