DAMNED broke a part inside my diff

[Durango2k]

... I should maybe not have opened it. (I am talking about an LSD diff from an S1 from 1966 ....)

After putting anything back together, I went home. Turning
the ligts of and doing the step towards the doors, I heard a
sharp, banging, crispy noise from the workbench in the shed.

TWANG.

I thought this was not something fallen over- it was inside
my brain yelled.

So I duely returned, opened it all up, and there it was.

One of the 2 bridges which carry the small gears has a
split. A rupture, say 6 of 10 mm deep in the centre of the
bridge, and 1 mm wide on top.

I must have made a fault somewhere, and mount it under
tension, pulling it back together with 8x 62 Nm screws, and
it broke a second before I left.

Now-

a) source ? Limora germany has is, part by the book is SJ
4164, BUT they ask 203 Euros for it.

b) Weld ? I have no idea how much power is on these parts,
because the gears are all led by the other gears, there is
no real room and the two bridges lay in each other like two
hands on a handshake.

Darn.... but better this way then if it had banged 5 seconds
later, because I would continue to assemble the IRS and
drive it.... I would never have found it.... until....

Carsten

[GSR 54D]

Give Alan Slawson a call he may have a spare or advise accordingly.

http://www.ajsengineering.com/index.html

John H.