2 S's & a clubman wrote:
With all the "technology" we have these days, how haardcan it be to get good stuff, they could make good strong stuff in the 60's, why not now????
Because now the Chinese make all the steel, but no-one taught them how
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| Author: | doogie [ Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Chewing gum diff pins!!!!!! |
Well im having a good average this year, 2 motorkhanas 2 broken diffs!!! Why is it so hard to get some decent diff components these days, even the competition diff pins are made of blu tak & the sun gears are made of rice crackers, looks like another cross pin diff is needed for my Cooper S. With all the "technology" we have these days, how hard can it be to get good stuff, they could make good strong stuff in the 60's, why not now???? Doogie |
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| Author: | sgc [ Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chewing gum diff pins!!!!!! |
2 S's & a clubman wrote: With all the "technology" we have these days, how haardcan it be to get good stuff, they could make good strong stuff in the 60's, why not now????
Because now the Chinese make all the steel, but no-one taught them how
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| Author: | drmini in aust [ Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chewing gum diff pins!!!!!! |
sgc wrote: 2 S's & a clubman wrote: With all the "technology" we have these days, how haardcan it be to get good stuff, they could make good strong stuff in the 60's, why not now???? Because now the Chinese make all the steel, but no-one taught them how Ring Heritage MG, they make their own layshafts here from real steel, heat treated properly, maybe they do diff pins too. |
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| Author: | doogie [ Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:45 pm ] |
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GR said he was going to make some up out of the chrome moly he had lying around & get them hardened, we can only hope they come through!!!! Doogie |
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| Author: | drmini in aust [ Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:50 pm ] |
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I have heard it stated by others that the competition diff pins sold these days are inferior to the Rover std ones. But I guess these are probably NLA now, like the Rover spider gears.. |
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| Author: | david rosenthal [ Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:45 pm ] |
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2 S's & a clubman wrote: GR said he was going to make some up out of the chrome moly he had lying around & get them hardened, we can only hope they come through!!!!
Doogie Go to a company that makes springs and get a piece of normalised spring steel round bar. After machining then get it heat treated. Chrome moly will remain brittle after heat treating, and will not take the shock loads like spring steel. The problem is to get a piece of steel that is hard for wearing but is not brittle to stress. Look at a bearing, hard wearing but brittle. |
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| Author: | KLAS [ Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:26 pm ] |
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some time ago we had 3 diff pins tested but its a 33MB pdf, german language only. tell me if your interested |
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| Author: | awdmoke [ Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:47 am ] |
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Would be nice if you could give us a book summary in English, Klas. Please? |
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| Author: | TheMiniMan [ Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:50 am ] |
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Just buy a Quaife Planetary type diff & be done with it I even bought a planetary type limited slip for my Kombi 
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| Author: | KLAS [ Tue Mar 03, 2009 4:32 am ] |
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awdmoke wrote: Would be nice if you could give us a book summary in English, Klas.
Please? i will try, but give me a day to read it again and find the right words. IIRC there was no big difference (but it was 2003, so i might be wrong) |
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