I hope I've got the terminology correct - I understand a lot of people elsewhere in the world call the "crown-wheel-and-pinion" the "third member" - Hence the title I've used.
Anyway I spotted this picture in a 4x4 magazine that I subscribe to over here in NZ:
I've since given the magazine away but I think it was an 80 series truck that was featured in the article.
All I ever do with that mag these days is "skim read" the articles and despite skim reading this article twice, I found no reference to anything peculiar about the differential.
Yet the third member appears to have been rotated in order to improve the driveshaft angle. I would have thought this would present problems with achieving effective lubrication (because I would have thought it was desirable to have the pinion teeth at least partially immersed in gear oil all-the-time).
Is the practice of rotating the third member in the pumpkin common? (Or do you think I have misunderstood the photo and it is not rotated at all?)
Anyway I spotted this picture in a 4x4 magazine that I subscribe to over here in NZ:
I've since given the magazine away but I think it was an 80 series truck that was featured in the article.
All I ever do with that mag these days is "skim read" the articles and despite skim reading this article twice, I found no reference to anything peculiar about the differential.
Yet the third member appears to have been rotated in order to improve the driveshaft angle. I would have thought this would present problems with achieving effective lubrication (because I would have thought it was desirable to have the pinion teeth at least partially immersed in gear oil all-the-time).
Is the practice of rotating the third member in the pumpkin common? (Or do you think I have misunderstood the photo and it is not rotated at all?)