Winter Jobs started

Hi and welcome. 

As the weather has been going downhill for the last month the road trips have become quite rare. I even have to put the battery on charge as the small number of ancillaries, clock etc. seem to drain the battery after 2 weeks. After having a great deal of fun doing a days Caterham drifting course down at Nürburgring at the beginning of October I decided to buy a limited slip diff. Checked around and with  the help of Dave found one on ebay.de in Germany. It’s a 3,45 25% lsd  from a BMW 320i.

Markings: S=LSD 3,45 Ratio

I presumed my current one was a medium case but turned out it’s small. Anyway I received it within 5 days and started cleaning it up, ready to replace any parts that looked worn. It actually looks great so will only replace oil, drain plug washer etc. Speed sensor is cracked so will take the one from by old diff. 

Looks pretty old and rusty, well it would I suppose. A lick of paint will help.

Took it to the local car wash for a jet clean.

Speed sensor and retaining plate will be replaced.

Internals look very good so I won't change anything and run it for a while.

Will check for oil leaks once it's been in the car a while.

While checking for a noise and a wobbly ride I've been noticing for quite a few months I realised it was the nearside rear bearing that was worn badly. I pressed this in myself almost 7 years ago. Replaced the offside 3 years ago as it was damaged. So looks like I may have over done this one too during pressing it in.

Off again!

Just have to look through the blog to see what I did last time! 

Ordered diff parts from BMW so hopefully in the next few week or so the "new" diff and new bearing will be in the car and I'll have some time to try it out before snow arrives :-)