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Early (Banjo) Differential Question 65 B

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Early (Banjo) Differential Question 65 B #1
mgb65 Ron Walsh West Palm Beach, Fl, USA 1965 MG MGB "Lady Penelope"	Posted: April 09, 2012 03:15PM Registered: 8 years ago Posts: 1,763

Greetings all,

I am working on the rear differential on my 65 MGB with a banjo axle. In the attached picture, items 11 and 13 are what I am replacing. When I took the gears out of the housing, I expected to find a fiber washer on the axle gears, but there are copper or bronze washers in there.

My question is, has anyone else run into this? If so, did you just replace the copper washers with the fiber ones? Just to clarify, I am not talking about the copper/bronze convex washers on the spider gears, but on the gears that the axle splines run into.

Any help is greatly appreciated. I figure I am going to stop working here in case I need to order something else.

Many thanks for any assistance, ridicule or finger pointing.

Ron

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Re: Early (Banjo) Differential Question 65 B #2
dfriswell David Friswell BOCA RATON, FLORIDA, USA 1960 MG MGA 1600 "The G"	Posted: April 09, 2012 03:36PM Registered: 2 years ago Posts: 373

As I understand it, the later MGBs used the fiber washers and that's what the usual suppliers stock as replacements. If the copper ones aren't worn, I'd re-use them. That's the plan for my 60 MGA banjo axle.

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Re: Early (Banjo) Differential Question 65 B #3
MCCT Charles Tisdall Auckland, New Zealand 1967 MG MGB	Posted: April 09, 2012 06:01PM Registered: 4 years ago Posts: 1,122

My copper ones were not really worn either..so I reused mine on my 67

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Re: Early (Banjo) Differential Question 65 B #4
fast-MG.com Dave Headley Cortez, 4 corners, Colorado, USA	Posted: April 09, 2012 06:21PM Registered: 4 years ago Posts: 3,244

I've gone thru a lot of banjo diffs. never seen anything but copper. Don't see much wear either. I occasionally see cracks in the pinion convex washers.

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Re: Early (Banjo) Differential Question 65 B #5
mgb65 Ron Walsh West Palm Beach, Fl, USA 1965 MG MGB "Lady Penelope"	Posted: April 09, 2012 09:47PM Registered: 8 years ago Posts: 1,763

Thanks for the information guys. I guess I will just leave the copper stuff in place. I am hoping that I can find the specs on what they are suppose to measure out at. The convex washers look okay, so I will give them a measure in the morning. Thanks again.

Ron

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