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[mr3speed]

https://youtu.be/dwPrUQZrtIs

[DEXISWOLF]

That looks all to familiar xD

[Cooperman]

I must confess that many years ago after a diff case was cracked during a rally - I think the remote gearchange unit landed on a big rock and that caused the problem - we used what was technically an unmatched diff case. The step on the un-matched case to gearbox casing was very small, as it usually is, and we simply put in new gaskets, installed the diff, tightened it up and it worked fine. The size of the diff bearings is so large that it would not be possible to damage them through the mis-match and the only risk is pre-loading the casing itself. We thought it worth the risk in order to do another event shortly afterwards and if it had failed there would have been little to lose. However, it worked and was still in place many events later. In fact, it was never changed as far as I know. There were no oil leaks either which we thought was another risk of doing this.

I know it's not ideal, but I think it is not an unsafe procedure, although it should be considered less than desirable.

[mr3speed]

That looks all to familiar xD

Hopefully wont be going through that again