MA45 Axle

[brett_celicacoupe]

care to define "totally different" ?

just out of interest

[jimmy_a]

Hey GT. I would bring it to you...except im not sure if im going to do any damage, with the bent axle? it's rubbing when i brake, but otherwise, should it be okay to drive?

[gianttomato]

Massive dual race axle bearing - totally different to all the easily obtainable RA40 stuff down at the wreckers.

Well, I'm not really accurate - I have seen same sort of thing out of RA45 and MA46. Good luck trying to find those axles. Same deal with the MS112 disc brake rear ends - huge dual race axle bearings but 5 stud of course.

How did you bend the axle?

[jimmy_a]

Ahh. Narrow roundabout at the bottom of a hill (when it was raining and hailing the other day, slippery as) - and the extra, unexpected power from the 5mge didnt send me straight ahead at all, but sent the back into the curb. I didnt think it was hard enough to bend the axel...but clearly i'm wrong. Sigh. I was getting (and got) some nicer rims with newer tyres later that day - but the bald bicycle tyres that were on it wouldnt have helped either.

*hangs head in shame*

edit: to add to my defense, im having gearbox issues (next pay day = new gearbox ) - and the auto is changing very well, so sometimes, when it should be in a higher gear, it's in a lower gear, and there's unexpected power. I wouldnt have said that i was being stupid. Well, if i was driving with the old engine it wouldnt have even spun the wheels. But still, I hit the curb. Sigh.

[Celica RA45]

jimmy get a ra40 axle and strip it of the bearing and backing plate then strip your old axle but keep the backing plate and dual axle bearing and change over witha new shrink ring and about 2 hours work end of story finished

[jimmy_a]

Done deal, i'll do it.

Thanks buddy

[jimmy_a]

Mmm a friend suggested a crown rear end?

[brett_celicacoupe]

it wont be a bolt in fit.

all crowns are 5 stud axles.

most crown diffs are 1450 wide, RA40 diffs are 1410 wide

[jimmy_a]

Hey GT - I need your address man. Ive had a few chances the torque wrench back, but you havent answered the pms. I did have your number, but I lost it a while back sorry.
Thanks mate
James

[jimmy_a]

So my dif is broken. What now. ??

Mega whirring sound the other day on the way home, then, clunk clunk clunk clunk clunk, the whole car shuddering...

Sigh.

[rob]

get in contact with allan the MA45 guy down there in vic he's got the ma45 stuff you want available

[jimmy_a]

Mmm. Yeah, I need his details. Anyone direct me to them? Or to someone who has them?

[gianttomato]

Go to Pick-a-Part in Kilsyth. Pull the diff out of an old Celica (anything from T/RA23 up to RA60 will do). Put it in your car. Move forwards.

[Yian]

Went there on tuesday. Was a few celicas there.

[jimmy_a]

yeah, ra60 then, ftw. thats so obvious. thanks