New axles arrived today and they are very pretty!
Took the LSD into Geartech for them to have a quick squiz, and he said it's starting to burn the crownwheel to bits again which prompted converation about WHY this might be happening. You can see that the teeth have been meshing well, so it has been set up correct, but the teeth are getting burnt as if there is a lack of oil. So we had a long discussion about baffles.
The reason it has been doing this appears to be because the baffles are too big, and don't have a gap for the oil to drain back through. This will be because it was set up for a diff cooler at the beginning and the oil supply would have dribbled in from above the crown wheel. So now with no cooler setup the oil is "running away" around Manfeild's long sweepers and is unable to drain back into the middle of the diff housing.
So I jumped under the car to have a look at the baffles... turns out there is almost no space for oil to drain back with this setup because everything fits so tight. Yay for that! I can keep my T series diff.
Here is the baffle:
So the plan is to drill mucho holes in the bottom of this one so the oil can drain back (while still doing it's job) and run no baffle on the RH side (becuase it got munted when that axle sheared to pieces). Manfeild is mostly RH corners so the LH baffle is most important.
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