Front seal on rear diff

[Jay Kempf]

Has anyone removed the pinion shaft assembly on the rear diff without 
removing the rear diff from the rear suspension? My front seal is blown 
pretty badly and all the chassis bolts back there for the rear 
suspension assembly are badly corroded and I would really like to not 
have to disturb all that stuff at the moment. The Bentley procedure is 
pretty straight forward in terms of just undoing the bolts and pulling 
the front cover out with light slide hammer blows in one of the axle 
shaft bolt holes. So the question is whether the axle can be out of the 
way enough and all the flange bolts can be accessed? And then if there 
is enough room to withdraw the front cover with pinion, bearing, seal, 
etc... together.

Regards,

jfk

802 272 5868
jkempf at madriver.com