It was a pretty light crowd. Brett showed with his 80 and was stumped by his rusty LSPV

That thing is FROZEN with rust! One of the studs broke, so he left sleeping dogs lie

Dave showed up for a couple of hours to take it all in.
As Sean mentioned above, I was hoping we could get that outer pinion seal and bearing out without having to remove the entire diff, but it was no dice

The Toyota SST for that job is one strange looking gig. Once we started pulling things apart, is was pretty apparent that the pinion bearing doesn't appear to be the culprit of my noisy diff, but one of the carrier bearings! It seems to have worn a nice groove into one of the races. Of course, trying to find a carrier bearing for an 80 on a Saturday was impossible. Sean and Kelly used their contacts at a local parts store to get the bearings in for Tuesday (and at a great price:shotts: ) I have been reading the last couple of days about setting backlash, etc... looks like fun

We managed to get new ujoints in the rear driveshaft, also. Hopefully we will get mommy's mall cruiser back together Tuesday afternoon.
Thanks again to Sean and Kelly for their hospitality!
Thanks, Jeff, for sending our Tshirts to Sean's--they look GREAT (Brett, I have your shirts and stickers... give me a call anytime and I can bring them over to your work).
This was an incredible day, and I learned lots from Brett and Sean. I would love to plan another day (I promise to leave my truck at home). We have some guys in the group with some pretty incredible mechanical skills.