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At this point I think may just put off the rear diff project until I'm back up at school and can take my time putting it together shimmed correctly. Even with that off the list I have plenty of things to do before Thursday.

Ok I really need one of these sockets to remove the axle stubs from my diff. Sears has one, but its only available online and takes 2 weeks to arrive. $6 shipping on a $6 socket. Fastenal said they could get me one, strung me along for a week and a half, and then said they couldn't get it. :mad: Does anyone know where I can get a Torx E10 1/4" drive socket, preferably in the Minneapolis area? Or does anyone in the Minneapolis area have one I could borrow this weekend? Thanks.

One side gear is 1mm longer. Either way you put the side gears in, there is 1mm or so of play in the side gears. It looks like the 1mm longer side gear would keep the spider gear assembly from shifting that direction

I have been searching 4 different subaru forums as well as google and have yet to find a diagram of the diff internals. Photos of people taking the diffs apart, while very cool, don't really illustrate the small difference in side gears.

Not even November and you your getting 18" days...... <------jealous x12343654

After dismantling my rear differential I noticed that the 2 gears that mesh into the spider gears, 'side gears' maybe, are different heights and i have no clue which way they go back together. Does anyone have a diagram or exploded view of one of these old diffs? This one is supposedly the LSD from a late 80s XT.