Anyone got a how to for stripping the diff with hardy spicers?

I got confused reading the manual, it seemed to skip half a dozen steps.

Like it says undo the nut and remove.

But I couldn't get the thing to move, so was wondering if there is a trick to it. I tried with the box off the motor, is there a better way?

Any ideas?
Cheers

Matt

if you mean removing the bolt from the end of the output shaft, then you can use the flange thingy to hold it still and undo the bolt.... the output flange is splined on to the output shaft and the bolt goes into the end of the output shaft...

So if it's still in the car, put a couple of nuts (so you don't damage the threads) on the bolts poking out of the flange, put a big screwdriver between them and push it up against the floor/motor to stop it turning and undo the big bolt

I put mine in a vice cos the diff was already out of the gearbox - just the diff with the side covers and output flanges still attached

make sense? or maybe that wasn't what you're after

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Are you talking about the bolts inside each Hardy Spice drive flange?
I just take the whole diff assy and drive flanges out, and hold the flange by its flats, in the vice. You can then get a decent ring spanner or socket onto it.

If you are referring to undoing the pinion nut inside the gearbox, there was a thread here about a week or so ago. just scroll a page or 2.
<edit> see here, scroll down.
http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16895

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the nuts in the end of the hardy spicer outputs was the one I was referring to. It sounds like I was getting really confused. I thought that to pull the diff apart I needed to undo this nut?

I want to put in new bearings and a hardened diff pin. Is there anything else I need to know? (alreadty got these)

Any mods that I should do at this time, or are the standard parts (apart from the diff pin) up to the job?

Cheers
matt

You keep refering to a nut rather than a bolt (which everyone else is refering to because it's what HS are supposed to have).

However, I'd be REALLY interested to know if you do in fact have a nut there, 'cause it's what mine have, and I'm keen to know if I have some sort of home job, or some sort of not very common factory set up....

Woops,

Just refreshed my memory (looked at some photos of the last rebuild)
and it is a bolt not a nut.

My mistake, sorry!

So many different parts... so long ago....

Matt

I've seen a setup like that at kazjim's, it was on an early 3 synchro box he got. The flanges fitted HS joints, but were obviously not factory.

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