Today we made some really good progress putting the ole TE 20 back together. We installed the new rear axle outer seals, the new outer bearings, the shrink collars, brake backing plates. We installed the rear axles back onto the diff housing with all new gaskets throught. My question being, with everything tight, I know that the inner axles are not supposed to touch and ours dont but they do have some in/out travel. It is very minimal and it did that before we took them all apart. The bearings are pressed on as far as they can go. Is it normal to have very minimal horizontal travel? To my way of thinking the bearing retainer should be tight to the backing plate (ours is) and the axle should not move at all?
Thoughts on this? I will post some pics very soon.
Thoughts on this? I will post some pics very soon.