[ddmckee54]

Pictures.... about that, there's been a hiccup.

I retired about a week ago and I've discovered since then that I REALLY depended on those work computers. Almost all of the forums that I'm a member of were pointed to those e-mail addresses, and those high-speed morons were remembering the passwords for me. Those computers are no longer accessible to me now. I think I've worked my way through most of the forums now, but I'm still working on getting back into my pictures.

Regarding the donor axles, right out of the box they are about what you'd expect from cheap Chinese knock-offs. Let's just say not very good, as in really crunchy. You can BARELY turn the pinion shaft on them. When I opened up the first one I found that the ring gear and the pinion gear are both die-cast. They both had been very crudely clipped off their sprues - with no effort made to clean off the sticky-outy bits. Cleaning those nubbins off and getting the pinion depth set made a huge difference.

It's still a little crunchy when I make the diff work. I'll probably have to look at the spider gears next, since they are also probably die-cast. And probably just as rough as the ring and pinion were. I'll have to tear the diff apart anyway when I machine the axles to length.

Don