Re: 115 differential disassembly

["skippatnode" <skippatnode@xxxxxxx>]

Dion, Why not just pull the bolt circle at the differential housing and remove
axle, tube, brakes and all in one piece?  The axle is only held in place in
the tube by the bearing and backing plate at the wheel end.  There is nothing
holding it in the differential.
If you decide you need to pull the axle separately to change the bearing or
whatever:  1.  Remove the caliper.  2.  Remove the brake rotor.  3.  Remove
the 4 bolts holding the backing plate to the axle tube.  4.  Rent a slide
hammer puller and pull axle, backing plate and bearing out of the axle tube.
Skip Patnode
67 Duetto
Norfolk, Va


Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 13:31:00 -0700
From: "dion fields" <noid@domain.elided>
Subject: 115 differential disassembly

greetings respected digestibles,
i recently got a replacement rear end for my 73 GTV
my original one was humming.  the "new" one from APE
consists of the pumpkin and the left side tube and axle.
i need to swap the right side tube and axle from my old
diff' onto the replacement diff'.

what is a good way to pull out the axle?  my shop manual
says to just use the special puller.  but i imagine there is
someway the axle is retained in the tube, rather than just
pressed in.  does the parking brake assembly do the
retaining?  is there another style puller i could use, like a slide
puller, or is there somewhere i could rent the alfa puller from ?

- -dion fields
- -'73 gtv
- -los angeles
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