I have to start with the photo of the spitfire differential landing into position. That felt good !
Trouble started when I opened the diff and noticed a cracked case. A previous owner had rebuilt with some sort of glue...
Luckily the spitfire community is amazing and Steve from Vegas sent me an other case just for the price of shipping ! Thanks Steve !
Although the outside needs a good clean and paint the inside looked ok and was not making any noise so it's just new oil seals and outside bearings. See previous post for the side seals.
For main pinion seal, pretty straight forward. Remove the nut. (Count the number of turns if you have a later differential)
Remove the flange.
And pop the seal out. Now that was the only part that took me a while, nothing could set it loose, so I ended up welding a little stick to it and pulled it with the slide hammer.
New paper gasket, refill with fresh oil and hopefully good for a lifetime !
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