Hi all
Can you help just put my diff and shaft in a viento 7" diff Lift the rear suspension up and down and the o/s shaft is pulled out

You got the shafts the wrong way round?

NO put the long one in the o/s

It shouldn't be able to pull out really, if the circlips are fitted!

I know that the circlips aren't supposed to be under load as such, but if both the CV's are at the outer limits of their travel then the shaft may be able to drop out between them.

More information might help - like what kind of shafts are they, how much they 'pull out', photos even...

liam

If you have push in shafts - they don't lock in or anything, just sit there nicely.
Is the shock fitted?
'Cause I'm sure if you push the shaft up, it will pop out if nothing is stopping it going beyond "normal" use.
Is everything bolted together eg, rear bones and rear upright as these all hold the shaft in position.
Pat...

HI

No circlips on standerd Sierra shafts

Shafts pull out 10mm went shaft is level
and everything is bolted up

standerd sierra shafts with 7" ditf

have you taken CV,s apart?there is a spring in there to push joints apart,maybe spring missing/broken?

Yeah - definately sounds like the springing on your shaft is dodgy.

liam

HI, sorry the shafts are new ones

iv,e tryed the spring in the CV,s OK

I thought all 7" diff sierras had lobro shafts with 6 bolt flanges. Surely all the pull-out shaft ones are 6.5" diffs!!!

Huh?? All the sierra diffs are 7" (apart from cossie of course). Oh and 4x4 front diffs are 6.5". Maybe there was a really early 6.5 or something, but us locosters are all using 7s, either push-in or flanged - the diffs are identical.

Really can'twork out mr fulton's problem. Detailed photos might help.

Liam

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Lift the rear suspension up and down

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[Edited on 28/3/05 by NS Dev]

Hi all

Have put spacers on the n/s of the diff to off set to the o/s a pit . And the shaft only come,s out 5mm is this OK can not move more or it start on the N/S