Apex87
01-13-2009, 11:52 PM
Hey. I've done all the research I can and looked at every picture on this site reguarding this topic. But I'm still not a hundred percent on two things.
For this to make sense let me give you the run-down of my situation. I bought my MSP 2 months ago at the end of november, and was even smart enough to purchase an extended warranty through the finance comp. Alittle over a week and about 200 miles after I bought it my diff broke on my way to work. Since I had bought a extended warranty I had it towed to the nearest Mazda dealer to play it by the book, where my warranty company needed me to authorize a $600 teardown to remove the trans and expose the diff, I approved. The warranty inspector came down and pull'd my warranty b/c there are aftermarket parts even tho I bought it like that. Reguardless I had the mazda dealer put enough of the car together to tow it to the toyota dealer I work at so I could finish since the rest plus the teardown was now coming out of my pocket.
Ok now that where caught up I got the entire trans in two boxes in the trunk of my car in pieces. But after researching and looking at several different service manuals I can't identify what differential I have, however I've ruled out aftermarket helicals and the third revision because I believe those are spring loaded lsd's.
Also since I got the trans in pieces I'm not aware if any pieces are missing since I didnt do the dissassembly. But some schematics show bearing washers on either side of the spider gear assebmly on the differential housing. I have no sign of one. I was wonder ing if anyone knew for certain. I plan on rewelding it at this time since I don't have nearly enough money for anything else. Thank you for your time.
The question pertaining to the bearing washer, I'm wondering if a bearing washer sits below the spider gear shown in the last picture. Basically between the spider gear and the ring gear.
For this to make sense let me give you the run-down of my situation. I bought my MSP 2 months ago at the end of november, and was even smart enough to purchase an extended warranty through the finance comp. Alittle over a week and about 200 miles after I bought it my diff broke on my way to work. Since I had bought a extended warranty I had it towed to the nearest Mazda dealer to play it by the book, where my warranty company needed me to authorize a $600 teardown to remove the trans and expose the diff, I approved. The warranty inspector came down and pull'd my warranty b/c there are aftermarket parts even tho I bought it like that. Reguardless I had the mazda dealer put enough of the car together to tow it to the toyota dealer I work at so I could finish since the rest plus the teardown was now coming out of my pocket.
Ok now that where caught up I got the entire trans in two boxes in the trunk of my car in pieces. But after researching and looking at several different service manuals I can't identify what differential I have, however I've ruled out aftermarket helicals and the third revision because I believe those are spring loaded lsd's.
Also since I got the trans in pieces I'm not aware if any pieces are missing since I didnt do the dissassembly. But some schematics show bearing washers on either side of the spider gear assebmly on the differential housing. I have no sign of one. I was wonder ing if anyone knew for certain. I plan on rewelding it at this time since I don't have nearly enough money for anything else. Thank you for your time.
The question pertaining to the bearing washer, I'm wondering if a bearing washer sits below the spider gear shown in the last picture. Basically between the spider gear and the ring gear.