I appreciate the help.. I need to get this back on the road by early this week!!
Putting my SIII Tcase back together with the help of the LR Workshop manual.
They call for an end-float of .006-.008 between the high gear wheel and it's thrust washer (held by the circlip). Fine.
But then when I set the pre-load on the shaft bearings, using the speedo housing shims and according to 2-4lbs on a spring scale, that end float on the high gear turns to nothing and it becomes quite tight on the shaft.... too tight to turn on the shaft very easily let alone get any feeler gauge in there.
I fear that it will cause a lot of friction/wear and be difficult to engage high range.
Thanks again, gents!
King regards, Josh
Edit: At 1:30am I just finished reassembling. I think the problem was the flimsy (new) Genuine Parts circlip just couldn't take the load and was jumping out of it's groove some. I replaced it with the old circlip (which was worn and had one of it's ears busted off) and things seem to be okay now(???).
Putting my SIII Tcase back together with the help of the LR Workshop manual.
They call for an end-float of .006-.008 between the high gear wheel and it's thrust washer (held by the circlip). Fine.
But then when I set the pre-load on the shaft bearings, using the speedo housing shims and according to 2-4lbs on a spring scale, that end float on the high gear turns to nothing and it becomes quite tight on the shaft.... too tight to turn on the shaft very easily let alone get any feeler gauge in there.
I fear that it will cause a lot of friction/wear and be difficult to engage high range.
Thanks again, gents!
King regards, Josh
Edit: At 1:30am I just finished reassembling. I think the problem was the flimsy (new) Genuine Parts circlip just couldn't take the load and was jumping out of it's groove some. I replaced it with the old circlip (which was worn and had one of it's ears busted off) and things seem to be okay now(???).
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