Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 06:00:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: DaveB <rovergawd@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: LRO: Trans output nut tool
>k. And my choice is to keep
forgetting to buy the tool so I go with the manual that doesn't require
a torque spec, unless I'm doing an overdrive in which case a I borrow
the tool from Bill Maloney (remember him?) and keep it for 6 months.
What's with this "special tool?" I installed a Fairey overdrive on my
SIII back in 1973 or 4, and didn't have or need any special tools at all.
I used a basic socket set and a wrench set to remove the rear PTO cover,
take the nut off to remove the output gear and install the nut that holds
on the overdrive's special input gear. I don't recall anything anywhere
about torque settings, nor did I have any trouble removing or installing
anything with the tools I had. One-hundred-thousand-plus trouble-free
miles later, after I'd let the overdrive run too low on oil too many times,
the thing broke (totally my fault). I removed the overdrive and re-installed
the original output gear and PTO cover with the basic tools I had in my
toolbox while lying underneath the thing in the parking lot. So I'm curious
why all of a sudden it's become necessary to have some sort of "special
tool" to take the back end off the transmission and install or de-install
the output gear? It was a no-brainer in 1973; why has it become something
different today?
___________________________
C. Marin Faure
(original owner)
1973 Land Rover Series III-88
1991 Range Rover Vogue SE
Seattle
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Tue Apr 17 2001 - 17:04:06 EDT