Progress! Finally! Okay, well maybe I made some progress in other areas. But now the Alignment is mint. The car is back from the frame. I now have the perfect even camber split and caster split. Ranges are just what I was hoping for.
So in goes the TRE diff. It's a 1.5way 12-plate diff, with custom HD side cover, and custom glass sight high fill level rear cover.
Old Diff:
New Diff:
New Diff Installed:
Stock Rear Cover:
You can see the sight glass here in TRE's custom rear cover. In the stock cover, the fill plug is in the location where the sight glass is. The new fill plug is just slightly above the sight glass. This corrects the issue with the stock diff, which is that they run a little low of properly lubricating the pinion bearing, and allows you to fill the diff higher, as well as check the level without opening the diff.
These are all great improvements made by Jon at TRE, that will help make the diff last longer, and perform better.
After the install, I got my first real drive in the car in 5 months. This is still pre-tune, so the car isn't at full power yet. But it does sound pretty mean with the shorty exhaust on it. Here's a short video I shot with the digital camera I had with.
The next days project is to modify the exhaust for a little better clearance from the transfer case, and then start putting some miles on the car to break in the new clutch and diff. Once the miles are on, I can start swapping over to the light weight parts. That's when the car will start looking really mean :evil:
Until next time!
-Mike
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