Front Final Drive Cover: Removing
NOTE:
Front Final Drive Cover, Removing and Installing with Installed Transmission. Refer to FRONT FINAL DRIVE OVERVIEW
General Repair Instructions. Refer to REPAIR INFORMATION .
Clean working conditions for the automatic transmission. Refer to TRANSMISSION, CLEAN WORKING CONDITIONS .
-- Remove the left flange shaft. Refer to LEFT FLANGE SHAFT .
-- Remove the old circlip from the groove in the flange shaft using the new circlip -A-.
CAUTION:
Make sure the right flange shaft is installed before removing front final drive cover. Otherwise differential can fall out of transmission housing.
-- Tighten screws on front final drive cover in -11 to 1- sequence.
CAUTION:
- Slowly and carefully remove front final driver cover from transmission housing. Otherwise differential can fall out of transmission.
- A differential that has fallen out can no longer be installed. If differential falls out, transmission must be replaced.
- Make sure the differential bearing race and adjustment shims do not fall out of the transmission housing and front final drive cover.
- Bearing rings and adjusting rings that have fallen out cannot be allocated using workshop resources.
-- Secure differential -arrow- against falling out.