Huw
Club Member
Need some wisdom from those who might have done this before.
I want to measure the drive pinion bearing preload on an R200 diff I have.
Problem is I don’t have a torque wrench with a low enough range to do this properly. The FSM says the bearings preload is between 11 to 17 kg-cm or 9.5 to 14.8 in-lbs in old money.
Is there another way to measure this? I was thinking of a luggage weight gauge ( as I have one) pulling some string wrapped around the drive flange. That should give me the force to start the pinion turning, a bit of maths and I should be good.
But I don’t know how accurate it would be. Anyone done this before????
Huw
I want to measure the drive pinion bearing preload on an R200 diff I have.
Problem is I don’t have a torque wrench with a low enough range to do this properly. The FSM says the bearings preload is between 11 to 17 kg-cm or 9.5 to 14.8 in-lbs in old money.
Is there another way to measure this? I was thinking of a luggage weight gauge ( as I have one) pulling some string wrapped around the drive flange. That should give me the force to start the pinion turning, a bit of maths and I should be good.
But I don’t know how accurate it would be. Anyone done this before????
Huw