Triumph TR6 Diff 

Yeah, all done by myself alone on the floor in the depths of winter. The way I see it is, you just gotta make the best out of what you have and crack on with what needs doing 👍

Cheers Richard, its not as steep as it looks on camera, but I know what your saying 👍

Cheers mate, would be great to meet up soon, we'll have to see how things go with restrictions and the likes 👍

That jack is a real donkey of a tool, it's one of the first tools I brought some 15 years ago. It's been used, abused, repaired, and just keeps going on and on Dannys TR6 for some reason has always been a loud beast with a 6-1 phoenix exhaust, overhead Revington throttle linkage, it's just a monster. I was toying at going out in the Spitfire Christmas day, but it never happened. I made up for it today with a short drive in the MGB 👍

Cheers Graham 👍

It's a fire breathing monster with that exhaust and the Revington throttle linkage on it 👍

Cheers Ken, glade you enjoyed it 👍

I'd love an air chisel, but I try to keep the noise down with the neighbors. The diff didn't come with new washers etc, but they were included with the SuperPro bushes. As for Flying Legends, I can't wait for that 👍

Cheers Tush, yeah there uprated ones from SC Parts. I've seen many uprated driveshafts over the years, but the ones made by SC Parts (Jaguar specialists) aren't the cheapest but I'd say are best on the market. I fitted them many years ago to Dannys TR6, looking back now, I wish I did a video on them, but it was before my YouTubing days 👍

When the weather is cold I find myself grumbling to myself, but I've got a driveway and good neighbors so it's just a case of, you've just got to get on with it. With doing the RU-vid videos and getting the nice comments and seeing whoever car I've fixed happy from it, makes it worth while 👍

I like that, that's a good idea, maybe in a future video I'll do some of that, before and after stuff 👍

What can I say, I've done a few of them in my time 👍

Cheers Noreen, I hear your concerns, but please don't worry too much about me, I do mechanics for a living. However I know where your coming from, it's easy to make a mistake with a jacked up car and your a pancake. I do usually throw a couple of wheels underneath the car, as like you say, it can be a life safer. That's great to hear your making good progress with your car. I've had the body off the chassis on my own TR6 and replace the chassis with a CTM one. Best thing I ever did to the car, it made it handle so much better. All the Best Steve 👍

Grease!! That's a new one to me, I bet the previous owner packed it with grease so that it would keep the worn out diff noise silent, long enough to sell the car to the next owner. Unfortunately being yourself, but what a cowboy thing to do, that could of ending up in a serious accident, lucky like you said you wasn't going fast when it welded itself up 👍

@@SteveDentonClassics About a half a pint of grease in the diff housing, presumably to 'take up a bit of slack'! It got better tho but! When we came to swap the diff, someone previously had sheered off a diff mount. They'd drilled and tapped the shaft where the threads had snapped off and fitted a 1/4 bolt!!!! A tricky repair putting that one right,lol!

I bet, seems like you had your work cut out with that one! It's a know weak spot with the TR's the diff mounts sheering, however after many conversations with you Tom, I'm pretty sure your aware of this. Generally we tend to box them in those days, it's something I forgot to mention in the video, but in my defense it was pretty cold and I just wanted to get it all done before it got dark 👍

@@SteveDentonClassics Mine wasn't the usual fractured diff mount. It had been snapped off at the threaded portion, seized on nut forced and sheered the mount by cak handed previous owner. They drilled into the stub of the mount and fitted a 1/4 bolt. I'm amazed it held being as I used to thrash the car pretty much everywhere I went. I cut a mortice in the remains of the mount and a tenon in a new threaded section, then welded down and around the joint. As you say though, in general the diff mounts tear out, fatigue due to repetitive torque twisting as I understand it. Other than the diff, the usual clutch fork pin naughtiness, and a couple of vertical links and trunnions the car was super reliable,. No issues whatsoever with Lucas injection, believe it or not!!....................... Oh, and a rear wheel bearing?!?!?!?! Now that was a stinker to get off!!! Roll on 2021, a better year with any luck!!! All the best, Steve.

Drive it like you stole it, now that's now to own a TR. All the best to you too Tom in 2021, hopefully it'll be a much better year 👍

Great stuff, hope it all works out ok 👍

I suppose it helps as I'm a classic car mechanic for a living. All the best with you diff, and hope my video helped you 👍

Cheers mate. If you can get hold of a decent 3 legged puller it may do the job. Or you could try a 2 or 3 legged hydraulic puller, they are not cheap, but they have some power in them 👍

I'd say if I wasn't filming it for RU-vid, and all the nuts and bolts came undo ok, then I'd say between 3-4 hours 👍

Cheers John, this is good question, and to start with, never jack a TR on the T Shirt panel, this panel has as lot of stress for the rear suspension going through it. As for jacking up a TR4A 5 or 6, from the rear, then jacking up the car on the diff is perfectly safe to do, and is the way I jack them up. Some people will tell you this is not right as it can crack the diff mounts, let me tell you this is nonsense, and an old wife's tail. Diff mounts are a known weak spot on TRs but its not from jacking them up. It's from the torque coming down the propshaft and out the driveshafts, causing a twisting action on the diff mounts that causing them to shear. Those days we tend to box in the diff mounts to stop this from happening. So long story short your perfectly fine to jack a TR on the bottom of the diff. As for the placement of the axle stands, if you put them on part of the chassis between where the rear trailing arms bolt onto, then that will be just fine, as that's where the weight of the car is designed to go through. Hope this helps, cheers Steve 👍

@@SteveDentonClassics appreciate your response, I have my 73 6 back on the road after a 4 year resorption and boxed frame at diff areas. I'll try jacking on diff.

I agree the Nissan Skyline diff on a TR6 is an excellent conversion, and very much fit and forget, however this is not my car, so I can only fit what the customer wanted fitting to it 👍

It is indeed, I've wanted to get a car with decent exhaust note to film in there for a while now, and seeing as Dannys TR6 is a bit loud, it was the perfect car to do a bit of filming there 👍

@@SteveDentonClassics Do you live in Northampton Steve? If so I'm sure you must attend the monthly Earls Barton car meets although this year has been a total disaster so hoping next year will be better.

I do yes, live in Northamptonshire. I've filmed and upload many videos for the Earls Barton Classic Car and Bike meets over the years.They were good shows, with all sorts there. I know they did a few shows in 2020 as socially distanced events but with things how they are this year, I just didn't want to go

@@SteveDentonClassics I also live in Northampton and for the same reason didn't bother this year. I will check out your past videos . Keep them coming Steve and stay safe.

Cheers Ronnie, stay safe too mate 👍

It’s being updated with better sound etc 👍

Thank you for the update, I bought the TR6 in 1969 and have used your videos many times. Thanks again.

Cheers, well what can I say, I'm an Englishman 👍

Yes and no. It’s one of them. If your diff hangers are in good shape and have been boxed in, there should be no issue. But if they are 50 years old and are still standard, then it’s food for thought to fit standard rubber 👍

@@SteveDentonClassics - thanks for the reply

Would be a great solution, however Goodparts are based over the pond from Britain, and the price of importing one just outweighs the benefits of doing it

@@SteveDentonClassics I live here in Tennessee and the people who take care of my car or out of Nashville call Jd British Cars. Chris coffee runs speed shop out of the back part of J D shop and he’s the one that takes care of my car for me he’s sourced the R 200 and did the upgraded parts from Jim good parts let me tell you that package made a huge difference on how that car handles with a five speed Toyota Supra transmission and they are 200 that whole package just transformed that car considerably anyway thanks for the response and good luck