Re: 28 rear question

Posted by johnoder On 2010/3/17 5:52:44

Ray - inside the rear axe housing is the ring gear and its pinion on the end of the drive shaft. The ring gear is mounted on a case that contains "spider gears" which are interposed between mating bevel "Axle gears" on the inner ends of each axle.

When you have the wheels off the ground and the drive shaft stationary, it is NORMAL to be able to turn one wheel freely while the other wheel just as freely turns the other way.

The reason for this is in turning one axle gear in a case that cannot move due to stationary drive shaft, the one turning axle gear turns the spider gears which rotate the OTHER axle gear in the opposite direction.

Purely normal in an "open" (not limited slip) differential.

John Oder