Inspection After Disassembly

INSPECTION AFTER DISASSEMBLY
Drive Gear and Drive Pinion
^ If the gear teeth do not mesh or line-up correctly, determine the cause and adjust, repair, or replace as necessary.
^ If the gears are worn, cracked, damaged, pitted or chipped (by friction) noticeably, replace with new gears.
^ Drive gear and drive pinion are supplied in matched sets only. Matching numbers on both drive pinion and drive gear are etched for verification. If a new gear set is being used, verify the numbers of each pinion gear and drive gear before proceeding with assembly.

Bearing
^ If bearings are chipped (by friction), pitted, worn, rusted, scratched, or unusual noise is coming from bearing, replace with new bearing assembly (as a new set).
^ Bearing must be replaced with a new one whenever disassembled.

Differential Case Assembly
^ If the gears are worn, cracked, damaged, pitted or chipped (by friction) noticeably, replace with new differential case assembly.
^ If the movement is not smooth when pushing cam ring of differential case assembly by hand, repair or replace as necessary.

Differential Lock Solenoid
If the operating part of differential lock solenoid is not smooth, perform component inspection. Refer to "COMPONENT INSPECTION".