Carter,
Right you are. I was fortunate enough to find a Herald housing with a drain
plug when I was looking for a case for the Race Spit.
This makes it very convenient to change the oil in the diff. However, I
suppose it wouldn't be all that difficult to have the case
drilled and tapped for a plug.
Joe
Carter Shore wrote:
>
> Hmm,
> Greg Smith, by cover, did you mean the fill hole plug?
> Greg Schluge, there is no 'cover' on the diff, it is a
> housing. Which is a structural member, carrying the
> rear spring loads into the chassis via the ears on the
> back, and through the diff unit to the mounts on the
> front. IMHO, splitting the housing just to drain the
> fluid is like swatting a fly with a sledgehammer.
> Early model Spitfires have a drain plug on the bottom.
> If yours does not, then use a suction tube through the
> drain hole to remove the fluid.
> But why drain it? Unless it's contaminated, just top
> it off. If you are getting noises and such, then it
> will have to come out for service anyway, which will
> require disassembly. That's no doubt the logic BLMC
> used when eliminating the drain plug.
>
> Hope this helps, just trying to save you several hours
> of dirty, nasty sweaty work for no real purpose.
>
> Carter Shore
>
> --- Gregory Smith <gsmith@cvn.net> wrote:
> >
> > Rear end takes 1 Imperial pint / 1.2 US pints of
> > SAE90 Hypoid Gear Oil.
> >
> > That is a fill plug; drain by removing the cover...
>
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