Lowering GT
Hi all, just started lowering the Jubilee.
A question turns up; how do I split the swive axle?
Have removed the nut from the axle, and thought it wuld be to screw or pull the top tronnuion off, but no 🙁
Is there a trick to manage this?
b-havers wrote:
Hi all, just started lowering the Jubilee.A question turns up; how do I split the swive axle?
Have removed the nut from the axle, and thought it wuld be to screw or pull the top tronnuion off, but no 🙁
Is there a trick to manage this?
I've just had a quick look at my manuals and it appears you may need to press the shaft out, I could of course be wrong and no doubt Jubilee Man will correct me.
When I lowered Nell I went for these units:
http://www.mgocspares.co.uk/acatalog/MGOC_SPARES_STUB_AXLES__MGB__40.html
Item 76.
I kept my original stub axles as spares as they weren't too bad and bought 2 goosed ones of ebay for the return items to MGOC.
I know when I lowered Nell it just seemed so much easier and faster to go for the recon items from MGOC than try and strip / rebuild them myself.
If you're short of a manual drop me a pm and I can email you a workshop manual as a pdf.
Hope this helps, but may well not 🙂
Cheers
Col
I rebuilt 2 for the MGC and really all they required was a little persuasion - nothing severe - and the trunion will come off the kingpin fine. Just be careful not to damage the threads....
I assume MGB ones are very similar.
Hi, a gentle stroke at the axle-top solved the issue. It's been cleaned and rebuilt, and fittet to the car now.
Next challange is fixing the clunk in the diff (see other thread), and lower the rear suspension.
Well, things are progressing - slowly...
Last couple of days saw me finishing the differential, and put the rearaxle and new springs etc back in situ.
now I only need to put on the brake parts, then the car ise ready for a test drive.
Some pics fro the recent two days:
The diff and the old internals:
It took me some time to get the pinion wheels baqck in situ, at the correct position, but thanks to YouTube I got a fantastic tips.
Then it was time to mate the axle to the car, with new springs, shales etc:
Finally, a couple of questions at the end:
OIL - what oil do I fill in the differential?
Wheel Bearings - Do I need to put in grease, or will the oil from the diff flow out thru the driveshafts, and lubricate the wheelbearings?
Hi...Looks like a job well done (Inspired me to change the washers on my MGC axle before I refit it into my v8).
Oil is EP90 but it is hard to get these days so 85/90 is the usual substitute and the oil lubricates the bearings via splash.
Good luck with putting the rest back together again
Thanks for the answers Jubilee-Man 🙂
Finished the lowering-project today.
It always takes more time than expected, but the result is ok.
Fitted the brake parts at both sides, took some time cleaning the internals:
Then, collecting all the parts that has been changed during the process:
A friend who is building a 'special' on an Amilcar chassis, is having the springs, perhaps he cane use some of the blades?
And so it was time to take it out and check if it really is any lower.
Can't tell from the photoes. Car has not been driven yet (when photoes taken), so it may be the car needs a few miles for the new suspension to 'settle':
After these pictures was taken, I drove the Jubilee to my training studio (yepp I know, should have walked the two kilometres - or ridden my bike...).
The Jube feels OK to drive, though I didn't drive it too hard.
Unfortunately, the one thing that started this whole process, a clunck from somewhere behind, is still there, in spite of new shims in the diff.
So I am back to my first theroy; a slac at the splines at the tubeaxel..
But for now I'm not in the mood to spent more time with the MG in the garage.
Next project is to pull the engine from my Lotus Elan - but that's information for another forum.... B)