are there any teardown/assembly manuals available for the banjo rear axle.i searched the web and archives hoping to download or print something. i got a 47 1/2 ton i'm tearing down for my build. any help or links would be oppreciated.
I used this thread to rebuild mine. It works really well. Unfortunately the pictures have gone now. I was lucky enough to print it out before they disappeared but I'm sure it should still be OK. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=61502 It's fairly easy to follow. You have to be patient. There is a fair bit of assembly- disassembly- assembly- disassembly to get it set up right. Good luck Pete
Buy some gaskets. The side gaskets come in .06 and .010. Every thing is done by FEEL. Done a bunch of them, and the old gent that showed me was a Model A mechanic. He showed me some tricks, and I never had a problem with one. I even used mismatched ring and pinion gears, (had no money then) only enough for new bearings, and it ran quiet for years. Its not complicated, but be prepaired to dismantle it several times to get it right. I can go through it with you when your ready. Don't waite to long, I'm old. Iceman
yeah i found that tech article, cuznbrucie had saved it with the pics that got deleted and was nice enough to email it to me.just gotta get a stuck drum free and tear it apart. i wanna shave off the leaf spring mounts, sandblast, clean, and prime everthing up first. no sandblast today though cold and rainy as bastard in mass. who has the gasket shim packs? speedway? thanks for the responses.
airborne, i will email you what cuznbrucie gave me. thats what the hamb is all about passin it on. poppin out to take the family to breakfast will forward to you when i get back. send me a pm with your email
have had some requests by email for the excellent tech-article by the-rodster with pics.saved and supplied to me by cuznbrucie. see if i can post it here for all. it's a MS word document and in a zip file, so you'll need that on your machine to read it. lets see if this works
Oooops! I had forgotten that I had sent the stuff to you.......disregard the PM I just sent you, unless you need it again for some reason...........best regards, CB
cuznbrucie was that a senior moment! just kiddin.. you rock. lotta guys lookin for that article with the pics thanks to you now they can just print it up.
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=462776&highlight=banjo Here is a tech I wrote when I went through my dads. It may help