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Few more photos.
Soon after dismantling and cleaning the diff centre assembly off the diff centre housing.
It only took couple of not so hard hits with a rubber mallet(on the top rod end of the pinion gear) to get the pinion gear off the
pinion bearing.
These three pictures show the carrier bearing preload adjusting shims & their locking retainer mechanism.
These pictures were taken before I removed the pinion gear off the diff centre housing. This is a late post of these pictures.
I've just went through it and this is a fairly good documentation of a dissection;-) In my opinion those bearings were no good. How did You end up with this project? Did You fix it or have You changed the whole thing?