how to get center diff out of tranny case

[bensbaby_1]

hi.
i am currently ripping apart my 93 awd 5 speed trans.
i need to know...
how in the world do i get the center diff out of the tranny case?
there are no visible bolts?

any info...thanxs

 

[1slo1g]

Ok guess what i did a little searching and this is what i came up with from VFAQ.com

# Disconnect the negative battery terminal.

# Place the car securely on jack stands.

# Pull the right front wheel.

# Drain the transmission fluid.

# Pull the right front brake caliper and wire it up out of the way without disconnecting the fluid line.

# Remove the brake caliper bracket and brake disk.

# Remove the front sway bar link, you'll need the clearance to pull one of the transmission bolts out.

# Remove the bolts around the outside of the transmission case, many short and two very long bolts.

Gently tap the first cover off and set it off to the side along with the reverse brake gear syncro. The syncro will probably fall on the floor when you pull off the cover. Shown here installed on the 1st cover for safe keeping.

Tap the roll pin out of the 5th gear fork with the 1/8" punch and remove the fork. The large clip on the left is one of two holding 5th gear in place.

Remove the Viscous Coupling with two large flat screwdrivers. It should come out with little resistance. Remove the two 34mm nuts holding the gears.I used my impact, worked perfectly.

On 5/9/2000 John Christou Sent this helpful suggestion: I have a trick for taking off the 34 mm nuts without an impact wrench. After removing the 5th gear fork, put the transmission in any gear, now manually slide the 5th gear collar locking the transmission in 2 gears at once. This is essential if you want to torque the nut to the correct value on reassembly.

On 5/10/2000 Tony C Sent this information: The two nuts that are stated in your center diff repair page are 36mm on my
90 Talon instead of 34mm.

On 1/8/2001 Tom Stangl made this suggestion: A simple way to remove/install the nuts on the shafts is to stick a penny between the gears. The penny will get SERIOUSLY mangled, but it locks the gears tight without damaging them. I've reused the same penny to torque the nuts down just by putting in in the other side of the gears between teeth that match up with the shape of the mangled penny, but you can just use a new penny if you aren't as cheap as me ;-)

Use a flat screwdriver, or two, to pull the gears far enough away from the case to get the gear puller on them. Be careful! The gears are very hard, and apparently brittle, steel. I chipped one using the screwdriver only method. Thus my switch to the gear puller method.


Remove both gears. Remove the three bolts on the front side of the transmission. They each have a ball and spring that go with them. Not sure if the springs are different rates so I marked mine and kept all the pieces together.

Pull the second case off and remove the center differential.

Remove the 8 bolts on the differential cover with the impact wrench and get ready to catch the falling pieces and parts. As you can see from the mangled washers the exploding spiders did some damage to the housing. It was not very serious (only time will really tell) in my opinion, so I smoothed the rough parts out with a Dremil tool and called it good.

Clean everything in parts cleaner (gasoline works just fine) and re-assemble in reverse order with the new gears and washers. I was lucky enough that mine went back together with very little difficulty. The spacer on the smaller end gear (21173V in the illustration) was a good fit and left me with almost zero end play. I was not sure if it was right so I took it to the local differential repair master (Vince over at Fearless Gear) and he said it looked and felt great. So I reinstalled it without getting a different spacer.

* Loc-Tight the differential bolts and torque them to at least 40ft-lbs.
* Put the differential back in the transmission.
* Apply any type of mild silicone sealer to the covers when re-installing them.
* Re-install the other gears and viscous coupling. I don't think you can mess this up as all the parts seem to only go on one way.
* Check for proper operation.

thank you too VFAQ.com next time search

 

[bensbaby_1]

thats doesnt tell me specifically how to get the center diff unit out of the case...
i cant see anybolt anywhere and i cant figure out how to get it out.
mabye i need to press the shaft out or something....?

 

[SexyDSM95]

thats doesnt tell me specifically how to get the center diff unit out of the case...
i cant see anybolt anywhere and i cant figure out how to get it out.
mabye i need to press the shaft out or something....?

Yes it does...did you read all the way trough?

Remove the 8 bolts on the differential cover with the impact wrench and get ready to catch the falling pieces and parts. As you can see from the mangled washers the exploding spiders did some damage to the housing. It was not very serious (only time will really tell) in my opinion, so I smoothed the rough parts out with a Dremil tool and called it good.

Also here is the exact link the person above posted from, maybe the pictures will aid you.
http://www.geocities.com/spencerhut/talon/center_differential_repair.htm