Jim Bob The Dancing Bear
Well-Known Member
The cone type SG's have a large thrust pin and it's trapped by the cross shaft and can't fall out on it's own but the clutch type is nothing more than two buttons connected by a roll pin and can work it's way out of place. I always pull them out before they can come out on their own. This is the cross shaft with spiders gears and the thrust pin is in the middle and is what goes into the cone type SG. Once it's installed into the SG unit, the thrust pin sits between the side gears and won't go anywhere but I still like to take it out instead of letting it just ride free...sorry, I don't have pic of what the thrust pin for the clutch type unit looks like.
An open diff looks to be the same. My assumption is that the rear end must be taken apart to remove the thrust block to go with the green bearings. Or would I happen to be lucky and can just run the green bearings without removing the thrust block?
