| Re: My Rear Differential and Suspension Rebuild Chronicles |
Subject: Re: My Rear Differential and Suspension Rebuild Chronicles by dstaley on 2009/5/8 2:57:11 Add a few feet of pipe and the pinion nut doesn't stand a chance.  Once I got the guts out of the housing, I sent the case to a machine shop so that they could degrease it in their tank. While they had it, I had them face the gasket surface since GM upset it pretty badly when they stamped the codes on the bottom of the rear flange. Here's what it looked like when I got it back:   The edges still needed deburred, so I did this and chamfered all the bolt holes.  I masked all of the machined surfaces that accept either seals or bearing races in preparation for sandblasting.        |
