So I decided to finally drop my f303 in today. Well, I'll say that it sucked.
I'm going to code name my car "The Titanic" because with the amount of rust under there, I would believe that it sat at the bottom of a salty ocean for a hundred years or so :shock: That aside, I got the old one off in a hair under SIX HOURS. It was nasty, everything was rusted together. I put the new one up, and ran the two big 19mm bolts through.
Now, the two nearest to the 'nose' (driveshaft end), on either side lined up perfectly. The rest do not. It seems like the diff is sitting about 1/4-1/2" too low, and a bit too far towards the rear of the car. I can raise and lower the jack all I want, but it won't go anywhere and I can not seem to get it to line up for the life of me. What I don't understand is why? If the bolts at either end line up and the driveshaft lines up, why would the middle of it not? So far as I know, all the diff cases are identical from 82-86. I tried to stick a big screwdriver in there and push it up a little bit, but it won't go. WTF???
Has anyone else had this problem? I found no trace of it searching. What the hell do I do about it?
I'm going to code name my car "The Titanic" because with the amount of rust under there, I would believe that it sat at the bottom of a salty ocean for a hundred years or so :shock: That aside, I got the old one off in a hair under SIX HOURS. It was nasty, everything was rusted together. I put the new one up, and ran the two big 19mm bolts through.
Now, the two nearest to the 'nose' (driveshaft end), on either side lined up perfectly. The rest do not. It seems like the diff is sitting about 1/4-1/2" too low, and a bit too far towards the rear of the car. I can raise and lower the jack all I want, but it won't go anywhere and I can not seem to get it to line up for the life of me. What I don't understand is why? If the bolts at either end line up and the driveshaft lines up, why would the middle of it not? So far as I know, all the diff cases are identical from 82-86. I tried to stick a big screwdriver in there and push it up a little bit, but it won't go. WTF???
Has anyone else had this problem? I found no trace of it searching. What the hell do I do about it?