Ford Courier Diff WILL fit

Yes but there rare(i think, ive owned my ute 15 years and always had a spool/locker), spool/lockers are easily made, i want a locked diff anyway

what year are these ford diffs from...? and do the spring plates have to be modified?

cheers

ezekiel.

I have been mucking around with it today, its from 1982 model Mazda B2000/Ford Courier, I have stripped it down to do some more measurements.

The overall length(outer axle to axle) is 1360 where a esky(MK1) is 1350

The spring mount centre is 935 and my MK1 is 938, so yer its good to go, i have to get wider U bolts as the new diff tubes are 5mm wider(big deal) and the shocker mount plates have enough room to be slotted to suit the 5mm(2.5mm either way)

The axles have semi floating hubs and can remove the axle and bearing assembly without losing oil from the diff, the bearing is fully enclosed and dont rely on the oil from the diff for lube, there packed and sealed from both sides(diff and outside)

The big bonus with the axles is there is a dust seal for the outer seal, it has to be removed for the placing of the new studs, now that dust seal is riveted on with a PCD on the rivets of 4/108, so yer no need to re-mark it out, its ready to go with a slight re-drill.

Got some machining to do tomorrow and ill get some pics up for you guys to inspect, next thing is to pick up my MK2 diff to swap the bakes over and ill keep the pics coming.

Ill be doing a full write up once i get started into this whole car a little further

Matt

If you have any probs ask Ash Morris. He's dropped one into the back of his RS turbo.



Cheers
Brett.

Here are a few pics, just so you get my drift so far

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Been playing around with the axle today, working out how to machine a minumal as posible to retain max strength, on the back where the studs press though(now 12mm studs) there was a raised edge where the seal used to sit, i had to either machine it right off or countersink the stud holes.

This is not as easy as it sounded, i was going to have to make a vice to set it up on the paltform to flycut it with the mill, that was way to much mucking around, instead i set it up in a vice and carefully sliced the seal surface down with a 5" grinder, i know it sounds dodgy but this way the alxe has a lot more meat still in it as i only had to do 4 small moon shapes instead of taking a heap out with a flycut.

Ill get pics up tomorrow after i do the machine work on it tonight

Matt

That is correct, all you have to do is swap the brakes and restud the axles.

Ive completed one of the axles tonite, ill get pics up tomorrow for ya's to look at, really quite easy if you have a lathe and some good tools!