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Thanks Frank for you kind words. I'm not sure what to release on video next; Assembling the hub with new bearings etc as this will take a week or two to complete or to do a bit on the disassembly and checking of the diff? What do you think? Or is there something else you would like to see?
@@ianj3663 Ian. You could open up the diff, but I doubt you'll find anything to do but replace the three seals. The diff is boring because they're built rock solid by Ford and they almost never fail. One thing you could explore is changing the final drive ratio in order to lower the rpms at highway speed. I guess that would require installing a different ring gear. Don't know how difficult this would be.
The failsafe protrusion on the end of the driveshaft was fitted by Lotus after some expensive litigation in the USA which related to a horrible injury suffered by a child in the back seat of a +2 when a donut failed.
Love your videos: shows the reality of struggling with stuff seized solid and improvising with guerrilla engineering. That said, could you have used an angle grinder to cut (almost) thru the stubborn bearings to weaken their grip and bang them off..? Look forward to the next installment.
Thanks Tony. Yeah, I thought about the angle grinder route and also welding something to the out race that I could of got hold of but decided both were a bit to drastic and was also conscious that I would need something to use on the other hub as well. If the manual puller option hadn't worked I was going to try a hydraulic puller.
