Outer Limits 4x4 Board

hey guys just blew up my rear diff today & ive got a good front centre at home & a rear centre that i sheered off the end of the pinion a while back,
just wondering could i use just the pinion out of the front centre & put it in the rear centre as the rest of the rear is perfect??
looks identical in the workshop manual, just wondering if anyone has done it??
thanks jess :-)

gq351 wrote:hey guys just blew up my rear diff today & ive got a good front centre at home & a rear centre that i sheered off the end of the pinion a while back,
just wondering could i use just the pinion out of the front centre & put it in the rear centre as the rest of the rear is perfect??
looks identical in the workshop manual, just wondering if anyone has done it??
thanks jess :-)

you cant be serious

The front is RR, and the rear is SR. The teeth are totally different.

mmm i actually was serious otherwise i wouldnt of asked but thanks anyway cheers

because the front is high pinion the gears are reverse cut, so the two wont mesh at all. Also gears are sold as a set as they are lapped together, taking a mismatched pair, you MAY get a half decent contact pattern but chances are you won't. you will also need to shim the pinion etc to set the pinion depth in the new housing. so short answer is no, you can however get second hand third members complete for gq's for a few hundred around the traps, probably a better option if you have never worked with setting up diff's before.

thanks guys was a simple mistake, makes sense to me i shouild of thought about it first

you dont learn if you dont ask.. its just a tough crowd around here mate!!

bigcam wrote:you dont learn if you dont ask.. its just a tough crowd around here mate!!

haha yeah true i know for next time now you havent got a centre have you thanks mate cheers