Aha. Just for the record, a professional builder of TC diffs of this parish tells me the diff bearing cap torque should be 45 lb-ft.

Oh, just spotted you have an XPAG. The Octagon articles were to mate Ford box to MPJG. Still might help you for gearbox mounts and details. I have both the 5-speed AND a 4.625:1 diff and although I have only driven them 150 miles, and those rather gentle miles as I'm running in the new engine, I am ...

The Octagon Car Club (bi?)monthly magazine ran a really good engineer-written, blow-by-blow, colour illustrated account of a chap putting a type 9 five-speed in his TA. The saga ran over two or three editions, only last year I think. If you are interested contact the club and ask to buy the back-iss...

Hi All, I've just had the diff out to nip up the backlash (which was 10-12mm at input flange, 0.4mm at crownwheel). Slackening LH adjuster and tightening the RH adjuster did nothing, nothing, nothing then freed up with a jerk and jumped straight to a perfect backlash (0.13-0.14mm at C.W. and barely ...