Differential Gear Assembly: Assembly
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- Check for damage or excessive wear. Visual check.
- Check for damage or excessive wear. Visual check.
- Check that bearings spin freely and do not move back and forth or side to side excessively. Check for damage or excessive wear. Visual check.
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NOTE: Do not mix up the washers from the side or spider gears that they were originally assembled with. Assembly of the differential with the wrong washers can cause excessive wear to the differential carrier, spider or side gears.
- Align the roll pin holes. Visual check.
- New roll pin. Pin punch.